By Leilanie G. Adriano
Staff reporter
LAOAG CITY—As it heads towards
an effective and efficient delivery of basic services to its stakeholders, the
Schools Division of Ilocos Norte (SDIN) initiated a one-stop-shop to speed up
the downloading of maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) of
government-run schools in the province.
Unlike in previous years when
a school takes a long time to get its monthly share of MOOE due to voluminous
process of documents, the SDIN led by schools division superintendent Vilma Eda
set an appointment schedule during the MOOE downloading day of every month for
school heads to submit their liquidation reports to the finance section. Once
the submitted documents are complete, the cashier will immediately release the
check ready for cash deposit on the same day.
“This started in our ISO
journey. We saw there’s a lot to be improved so we initiated some reforms for
our continuous improvement,” said Ms. Eda in an interview.
During the MOOE downloading
day on August 3, 2018, Grace Turqueza-Rabang, SDIN accountant said school heads
from the 318 elementary schools, 54 senior high school and 28 non-implementing
schools convened at the division office conference room to process their
liquidations.
“This is a one-stop shop.
Each one has a schedule for the checking of liquidations for the smooth flow of
transactions and if there’s refund, a cash personnel is on standby to provide
receipt. Once the liquidation is ok, the finance will receive it immediately
then go to the cash section to receive the MOOE for the following month,”
explained Ms. Rabang.
“We are happy and proud
because we are able to finish our MOOE transaction in just one day. Instead of
going back and forth to the division office just to complete our liquidations,
we can focus more on other important concerns in our respective schools,” said
Aileen Rambaud, Principal of the Badio Elementary School in Pinili, Ilocos
Norte.
After submitting her
liquidation papers at 2:15pm on August 3, Ms. Rambaud completed her transaction
in less than an hour.
Like some other school heads
who expressed satisfaction on the latest innovation of the SDIN, Arnel
Callanga, school head of Lanao Elementary School also lauded the implementation
of the MOOE downloading day.
“It makes our work a lot
easier because before, it takes about a month for us to process the release of
our school’s MOOE,” said Mr. Callanga.
For her part, Annalyn
Sevilla, Undersecretary for Finance, Budget and Performance Monitoring cited
the division’s “very innovative approach” to improve the department’s processes
and to check where the MOOE in schools go.
Ms. Sevilla hopes that other
schools in the country will also emulate the same for the timely delivery of
services at the school level.
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