The barangay treasurers are appointed by the barangay chairmen upon approval of the village council which their responsibilities include collecting and issuing official receipts for taxes or payments accruing to the barangay treasury, disbursing of funds and providing an inventory of all barangay assets.
TACLOBAN CITY – Barangay officials should be taught on how they could manage well their funds.
Thus said Regional Director Maribel Sacendoncillo of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) before municipal treasurers of Leyte in a recent gathering.
According to Sacendoncillo, they should guide barangay officials, particularly the chairmen and their treasurers, on managing their funds to avoid falling to corruption practices.
“The treasurers should help capacitate the barangay treasurers, as simple as bookkeeping; they need to be taught on how to do it. Help them by teaching them how to do inventory of assets. You have that responsibility over the barangays,” she said.
The barangay treasurers are appointed by the barangay chairmen upon approval of the village council with their responsibilities include collecting and issuing official receipts for taxes or payments accruing to the barangay treasury, disbursing of funds and providing an inventory of all barangay assets.
“The fight for corruption should start in the lowest level which is the barangay and to prevent it from happening, we will need your help,” Sacendoncillo said.
Eastern Visayas has a total of 4,390 barangays from 136 municipalities and seven cities which needs to be taught on good financial management to ensure that the funds they received goes to the intended services, programs and projects, the DILG regional director stressed.
Aside from ensuring that the barangay officials are managing the finances of their barangays properly, the treasurers must also provide technical assistance to the newly -elected Sangguniang Kabataan officials to handle their finances as well, Sacendoncillo added.
(ROEL T. AMAZONA)