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B-195662 1 (1980-07-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IN REPLY REFER TO: B-195 -w JUL 2 1 1980 Mr. William A. Medina Assistant Secretary for Administration Department of Housing and Urban Development Washington, D.C. 20410 Dear Mr. Medina: This responds to your letter of June 14, 1979, (reference: AFG) forwarded to us from Mr. Robert B. Burrill, Chief Disbursing Officer, Bureau of Government Tinancral Operations, Department o Lint-- Teliury, T. iequestin- that w-e grant relief to Verna L. Stephens, the Principal Cashier at the Los Angeles Area Office(LAAOo cfthe Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for a loss of $751.46 from the Imprest Fund. Your letter indicates that you have determined that Ms. Stephens was without fault or negligence in causing the loss and that she was acting in the discharge of her official duties when the loss occurred. We concur with your determinations, and grant relief to Ms. Stephens as requested. The record indicates that the Imprest Fund was in a safe in room 446 of the LAAO at the close of business on April 18, 1979. Ms. Stephens discovered that the entire safe containing the Imprest Fund was missing upon entering her office at 7:30 a.m. the following morning. According to Ms. Stephens, as the last person to leave room 446 at 4:25 p.m. on April 18, she checked to be sure that the door was locked when she closed it behind her. HUD officials conclude that the safe was stolen sometime between 5:30 p.m., on April 18, and 6 a.m., the following morning. At the time of the loss, HUD did not require its employees to sign out when leaving the LAAO for the day. Therefore, HUD could not determine which employees, if any, were in the building when the Imprest Fund was stolen. Access to the building was very easy to obtain even after its doors were locked for the evening. The Los Angeles Police conducted an investigation shortly after Ms. Stephens discovered the theft. The Police record, prepared following the investigation, indicates that there was no damage to the lock on the door to the room which held the safe. Ms. Stephens stated at the time that while she locked the room door, she did not set the dead bolt on the door when she left'work the evening before. 662 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL /99z9,, 4j

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