Office of the President

of the Philippines

Malacañang

MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 96

AUTHORIZING ATTENDANCE OF GOVERNMENT RECORDS CHIEFS/OFFICERS IN THE SYMPOSIUM-CONVENTION OF THE PHILIPPINE RECORDS MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. (PRMA)

The Philippine Records Management Association, Inc., (PRMA), an organization of government records chiefs and officers, will hold a two-day symposium-convention on May 16-17, 1989, at the Manila Garden Hotel, Makati, Metro Manila, on the Theme: “Productivity Through Effective Records and Information Management”. The symposium-convention seeks to develop and improve professional standards and activities on records and information management, encourage the exchange of information among government records chiefs/officers and promote the applications of modern principles, methodologies, techniques and transfer of technologies in records and information management systems with the end in view of increasing productivity in the government service.

Heads of Departments, chiefs of bureaus and offices, agencies and instrumentalities of the government, including government-owned or controlled corporations and local government units are hereby authorized to send not more than two (2) participants each, who are records chiefs/officers and have not attended a similar activity for the last two (2) years, to the symposium-convention on official time with reasonable expenses for transportation, per diem and a convention fee of ₱500.00 per participant to cover the cost of meals, snacks, kits, hand-outs and other miscellaneous convention expenses, changeable against the appropriations of their respective offices, in accordance with applicable laws, subject to the availability of funds and the usual accounting and auditing requirements. Provided, That, the per diem herein authorized shall not include meals taken at the convention. It is hereby understood that participants residing or stationed in Metro Manila shall be entitled only to the payment of the convention fees and actual transportation expenses consistent with the provisions of the CSC Memorandum Circular No. 9, S. of 1989.

The participants shall, within fifteen (15) days from the termination of the aforesaid symposium-convention, submit to their respective heads of office a narrative report on the actual conduct of activity of the symposium-convention.

The Association shall, within thirty (30) days after the symposium-convention submit to the Civil Service Commission a narrative report on the actual conduct of the activity, together with an evaluation report, a list of successful participants and a statement of expenditures incurred duly certified by the Chief Accountant of the Philippine Records Management Association, Inc., copy furnished the Department of Budget and Management.

By Authority of the President:

(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.

Executive Secretary

Manila, March 16, 1989

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