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B-214145 1 (1984-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmbi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION ! FILE: B-214145 THE COMPTROLLER INEAL OP THE UNITO STATEII WAUIINGTON, 0. C. 2054U OATE: December 10, 1984 MATTER OF: Appropriations Chargeable with Expenses of Representational Events at Foreign Posts OIGEST: 1. Expenditures for hiring extra waiters and busboys to serve at official functions at foreign posts must be charged to the State Department repre- sentational allowance appropriation. The allot- ment for official residence expenses, derived from the lump sum appropriations for salaries and expenses, covers household servants who main- tain the official residence. State Department regulations do not appear to include temporary help hired for specific events as household servants. 2. Even if expenses for temporary help could be con- sidered generally to be covered under regulations governing the appropriation allotment for official residence expenses, such expenses should only be paid from the representational allowance appropria- tion. Long-standing Comptroller General decisions prescribe the use of an appropriation specifically available for a purpose to the exclusion of a more general appropriation that could encompass the same purpose. Moreover, section 454 of the State Depart- ment Standardized Regulations forbids the use of official residence expense allotments if there is any other appropriation that covers the same purpose. A Department of State certifying officer has requested a decision on the proper appropriation to be charged for the ex- penses of hiring'extra waiters and busboys to serve at offi- cial parties and other representational events lostod by United States principal representatives serving at 'foreign posts. The Department receives an annual line item appropriation for representation allowances as authorized by section 905 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, as amended, (22 U.S.C. § 4085). (See, e.g., its fiscal year 1984 appropriation act, Pub. L. No. 98-166, 97 Stat. 1087, 1093, November 28, 1983..) The 0307f3

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