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B-193346 1 (1979-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhaf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-193346 STHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEO STATES S/WASHINGTON, O.C. 2054 8 DATE: March20, 1979 MATTER OF: Frank Shaffer-Corona - Tr vel Expense DIGEST: An elected member of the District of Columbia Board of Education may be reimbursed for the cost of round-trip transportation and per diem expenses to Havana, Cuba, to attend the Eleventh. World Festival of Youth and Students,k' International Tribunal. Travel was authorized in advance by appropriate Board of Education officials, and the benefit of the trip may not be challenged after the fact. Interest may not be paid on the claim despite the delay in payment. Mr. Charles E. Davis, Accounting Officer, Government of the District of Columbia, requests an advance decision as to whether Mr. Frank Shaffer-Corona, an elected member of the District of Columbia Board of Education, is entitled to reimbursement of travel expenses incurred in connection with a trip from Washing- ton, D.C., to Havana, Cuba, and return during the period July 26 through August 8, 1978. Mr. Shaffer-Corona was certified by the First Secretary and Consul, Cuban Interests Section, Embassy of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, as a member of the American delegation to the Eleventh World Festival of Youth and Students, International Tribunal, Youth Accuses Imperialism, held in Havana, Cuba, from July 26 through August 8, 1978. Before the conference, Mr. Shaffer-Corona submitted a Request and Authorization for Official Travel, dated July 20, 1978, which was approved by Mr. Dwight S. Cropp, Executive Secretary to the Board of Education. After the conference Mr. Shaffer-Corona submitted two travel vouchers in the amounts of $831.63 and $20.67, and dated Septem- ber 19 and September 29, 1978, respectively. Mr. Davis, the Accounting Officer, questions the authority for the travel to Cuba and has declined to approve the vouchers for payment pending our decision. The controversy and confusion surrounding the claimant's trip to Cuba is shown by the following chronology of events. On IVe,.., Je1j_

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