A STANDSTILL in the delivery of services out of town by the Provincial Government was experienced in the past two months when some of the department offices at the Provincial Capitol failed to pay on time gas and fuel expenses incurred with Petron and Shell Corporations.

Virginia Parreño, Provincial Human Resource officer 5, meantime, agreed to the fact that to some extent, some departments have to personally shoulder fuel expenses so as not to hamper delivery of functions and services.

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The province, through the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist, Engineering department, the Provincial Board Office, and the office of the Vice Governor, incurred a total of “unpaid” P2.6 million in gas and fuel expenses that provincial administrator Enrique Pinongan said caused the oil companies to “bar” the province from swiping oil supply from them.

Pinongan said the engineering office already paid P1.8 million out of its P2 million account on Monday to Petron while accounts with Shell are being processed.

“Petron has reactivated our accounts with the province and we can now have transactions with them,” Pinongan said.

Pinongan said the reason of barring the province by the oil companies was due to delays in the processing of pertinent documents “or maybe such were prepared with insufficient documents.”

Pinongan appealed to the liaison officers of every department to track disbursement and process accounts at a specified time without compromising cut-off or deadline.

He said they should call these department heads to discuss the matter to resolve “delinquents” to “stretch predicament.”

In fact, Pinongan said that when the province launched the Citizens Charter, speedy delivery of basic services is one feature that was included in it.

“Government officers and heads should strictly observe that delivery of services should not be hampered because of negligence in duty and functions,” Pinongan said.

Parreño, on the other hand, cited Republic Act (RA) 6713 that any government transaction should not go beyond 15 days in as far as liquidating expenses are concerned.

Whatever sanction out of negligence committed by a liaison officer of a certain department would still be subject of the meeting with them as scheduled this week, Pinongan said. (GMD)