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LETTER OF INSTRUCTIONS NO. 1043 -
ON THE PROCUREMENT OF BOOKS AND OTHER AIDS FOR THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS |
The Minister of the Budget
The Minister of Local Government and Community
Development
The Chairman, Commission on Audit
WHEREAS, the limited funds of government need to be used in the most effective manner;
WHEREAS, the production of textbooks is a priority activity that needs maximum funding support;
WHEREAS, a relative priority structure must be determined in the allocation of funds for textbooks, reference materials, supplementary readers, flip charts, and other types of teaching aids;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President (Prime Minister) of the Philippines, do hereby Order and Instruct:
1.
The production and procurement of textbook shall be undertaken through
EDPITAF, which shall prepare and submit for the approval of the
President, an annual textbook program that indicates the status of
existing textbook levels in the various Regions, the proposed annual
distribution identified as to region, grade, subject, title, and other
pertinent information.
2. Funds
appropriated for books, whether coming from loan proceeds or peso
counterpart requirements supported by the General Fund of by Special
Funds or Accounts, shall be covered by the textbook program to be
prepared by EDPITAF.
3. The funds
appropriated for EDPITAF, including loan proceeds and peso counterpart
requirements, may not be used for the procurement of items other than
textbooks.
4. The
purchase of textbooks, supplementary readers, reference books, and
other similar items which are funded from the regular equipment funds
of the Ministry of Education and Culture, of national high schools and
colleges, or from Local School Board funds, shall be subject to the
prior approval of the President in consonance with LOImp. No. 29.
5. Maintenance
and operating funds of the Ministry of Education and Culture may be
used for the production or procurement of teaching aids other than
books only with prior approval of the President, following the
procedure established under LOImp. No. 29 for books. Such maintenance
and operating funds may not be used for the production or procurement
of books. For purposes of these Instructions, teaching aids shall
include flip charts, flash cards, workbooks, magazines, maps, manuals,
garden tools, films, slides, audio-visuals, pictures, printed
materials, laboratory aids, and other items or materials of similar
nature and purpose.
6. Funds
appropriated as assistance to local schools, including barangay
schools, shall be transmitted to cash and in full to the local
government units concerned, who shall be responsible for seeing to it
that the funding is used for the local schools concerned. Priority in
the use of the said funds shall be given to upgrading of teacher
salaries and allowances in order that they may be compensated at the
national schoolteacher compensation scale. The funding assistance to
local schools may be used by local government units for the procurement
of books and teaching aids only with the approval of the President
pursuant to LOImp. No. 29.
7. Funds still
available out of those appropriated in B.P. Blg. 40 for schoolteacher
material shall be distributed to them in cash.
8. Funds
intended for regional operations shall not be retained at the Central
Office for purposes of centralized procurement without the prior
approval of the Regional Director concerned and of the Minister of the
Budget.
9. Central
office procurement shall be done through the Procurement Council
created under LOI No. 755 for items which are handled by the said
Council.
10. The
Minister of the Budget shall study the provisions of existing law,
including the General Appropriations Act, and propose such revisions
that will ensure consistency with these Instructions.
11. The
Chairman of the Commission on Audit shall study the transactions of the
Ministry of Education and Culture and of Local School Board during 1980
and shall report to the President on those transactions inconsistent
with these Instructions, including those completed prior to date
hereof. A preliminary report shall be submitted on transactions to
date, within sixty days of date hereof.
Done in the City of Manila, this 16th day of July, nineteen hundred and eighty.
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