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B-265856 1 (1995-11-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptacfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-265856 November 9, 1995 Mr. S. M. Helmrich Director Financial Management Division U.S. Department of Agriculture Greenbelt, MD 20770-1433 Dear Mr. Helmrich: This is in response to your letter of August 9, 1995, requesting relief for Victor T. Knell, principal cashier and Kathleen E. Zaylskie, alternate cashier, Agricultural Research Center, Biosciences Research Laboratory, Fargo, North Dakota, for a physical loss of $4,189.67 in imprest funds. For the following reasons, we grant relief. Background The record reflects that during the morning of April 23, 1995, a person or persons gained access inside the Biosciences Research Laboratory building. Within the same time period as the theft, a state employee who works at the facility reported her handbag stolen from her home. Her key cards to the building were in her handbag. The office where the imprest fund safe was kept was forced open and the safe was forcibly removed from the premises. The safe was concealed in a wooded storage cabinet and screwed into the wall. The Fargo Police Department found the safe in a ditch and notified the director of the Agricultural Research Center. All accountable items comprising the imprest fund were recovered with the exception of the stolen cash in the amount of $4,189.67. Discussion Under 31 U.S.C. § 3527, our Office is authorized to relieve accountable officers of responsibility for a physical loss of government funds if we concur in the determination by the head of an agency that: (a) the loss occurred while the accountable officer was carrying out official duties, and (b) the loss was not the result of fault or negligence on the part of the accountable officer. B-230796, 2591024

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