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B-195002 1 (1980-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiha0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-195002 MATTER DIGEST: 7§'~~p>.THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D. C. 20548 OATE'May 27, 1980 OF: eimbursement of Personal Expenditures by Military Memb for Authorized Purchases Air Force Sergeant used his funds, without advance authorization, to buy supplies for the Government. Generally, when an employee expends his own funds in what he judges to be the interest of the Government, no legal liability of the Government to reimburse him is created, except in case of expenditures in the Government's interest in urgent and unfore- seen emergencies. This case, in which Govern- ment property could have been lost and the mission uncompleted had the expenditures not been made, falls within the exception and the Sergeant may be reimbursed. The Accounting and Finance Officer, Griffiss Air Force Base, has requested an advance decision on whether he may certify for payment to Sergeant Michael E. Curlee a voucher for $72.20. The voucher represents reimbursement to Sergeant Curlee for expenditures from his personal funds to purchase equipment for official Air Force purposes. The voucher may be certified for payment if otherwise proper. The total of $72.20 includes 4 purchases: 2 liquid pumps in December 1977 for $29.90; a pump and tubing in April 1978 for $6.50; 2 locks in May 1978 for $15.00; and 4 locks in June 1978 for $12.80. In addition, the total includes $8.00 in March 1978 as a fee to redeem two rectifier cards from Italian customs. All expenditures apparently took place during installation of an Air Force project called Digital European Backbone (DEB) Phase 1. Sergeant Curlee explains the purposes as follows: 1. Two liquid suction pumps were required to transfer sulfuric acid from the storage barrel to the batteries. An unsuccessful attempt was made to acquire these pumps through aporopriate channels at Griffiss AFB. The pumps K

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