The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issued on Tuesday a qualified opinion on the fiscal operations of the municipality of Humacao.
According to the report, the municipality provided $24,959 as capital in excess of the resolutions approved by the Municipal Legislature, to establish the Municipal Enterprise for Economic, Cultural, Recreational and Sports Development.
“The fact of not obtaining the consent of the Legislature prevents it from fulfilling its responsibility to evaluate the allocation of funds,” the report details.
Between 2012 and 2019, the municipality disbursed a total of $3,943,284 to the Municipal Enterprise.
The Office of the Comptroller's report notes that the municipality did not record in its Monet GFS accounting system the disbursement vouchers for 24 of the 51 electronic transfers it made to the Municipal Enterprise from 2016 to 2019. This represents $1,594,391 of a total of $3,352,922 transferred in part to make improvements to the Fine Arts Center and the Coliseum.
The Municipal Enterprise did not execute written contracts for architectural services for which it disbursed $24,165.
In addition, no written contracts were executed either for the services rendered as executive director by the Municipality's also Finance director, from 2014 to 2018 for $34,025. The report ends with a recommendation to the Office of Management and Budget, that it ensure that the Municipality of Humacao complies with the Corrective Action Plan established by the Office of the Comptroller.
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