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B-193701 1 (1979-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjhc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: If .UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUhTINGiOFFICE WASHINGTON, D,C, O20340 OFFIC: oFr NRA. COUMSEL. March 29p 1979 B-193701 'NA The Honorable William A. Medina Assistant Secretary for Administration Department of Ilousing and Urban Development Dear MTlr, Medina: You have requested the relief of Gary L. Chase, Principal Cashier, Belfry, Kentucky, Local Disaster Field Office,, Department of Housing and Urban Development (IIUD), for the loss of 4,400 from an imprest fund. For the reasons discussed below, we deny relief. The loss occurred under the following conditions, according to the documents submitted and other information inforninlly provided to us, HUD dispatched personnel to the vicinity of Belfry, Kentucky, to provide emergency relief in the wake\of a major flood disaster, HUD was not able to issue travel advances 'to them before they wei e en route, and advised them that they would i'eceive advances at th Field Office there. The Administrative Officer, HUD London, Kentucky, Headquarters Disaster Field Office, detailed Mr. Chase to the Belfry office, where he arrived on or about April 15' 1978. At about the same time, the London office determined that the HUD personnel who had arrived at Belfry before Mr. Chase were desperately in need of funds for food, fuel, and lodging, due in part to local refusals to honor Government credit cards. It advised the Atlanta office of the urgent need for funds at Belfry, that there was no safe at the Belfry office, and that Mr. Chase had made arrangements for overnight safekeeping of the funds at a local bank. On April 15, the Atlanta office requested that the Birmingham Dis- bursing Center, Department of the Treasury, designate Mrg Chase as Principal Cashier (Class A) for an iinprest fund to be established at Belfry, and issue a check in the amount of $5, 000 for that fund. The Birmingham Center approved Atlanta's request on April 18, and Mr. Chase received the $5, 000 check that day. The next morning he cashed the check at a local bank and put the cash in a lockable bag which he had obtained for that purpose from the bank. At about noon on that day, he disbursed three travel advances I r I iS

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