Introduction
Introduction to the User’s Guide and the Personal Property Branch Website
There are three key resources which the Steward Contact will need to use when performing property program responsibilities; this User’s Guide, the NOAA Personal Property web site http://www.pps.noaa.gov/ , and the Sunflower Assets Management System.
Property Management: Why you?
As a Property Custodian, Steward Contact or designee, you are part of the NOAA personal property team who manage the acquisition, utilization, and disposal of over $5+ billion of personal property for NOAA. Since the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, there have been a series of laws and regulations enacted which direct NOAA to exercise positive control over these resources. NOAA is routinely audited to demonstrate that the appropriate controls have been put in place and are working to ensure property accountability.
Operations Managers need to know:
what you have;
what you are buying;
what your equipment is being used for;
the condition of the equipment that your employees are using;
where your equipment is going; and
where your money is going.
Personal Property Management is concerned that:
our records are accurate and complete;
our payments for equipment have been matched up with the equipment management records;
we’ve captured all of the costs of all of our projects (including depreciation); and
we are adhering to all the laws, rules and regulations concerning Personal Property Management.
Using this User’s Guide
This document provides step-by-step instructions to assist the Personal Property Team perform their responsibilities in the acquisition, care and management of NOAA personal property.
This User’s Guide is just one part of the documentation collected to describe the NOAA Personal Property Program.
Personal Property Branch Web Site
The NOAA Personal Property Branch WEB Site contains extensive information about the NOAA Personal Property Program; user documentation, contact information, links to the Unreconciled Payments Reports, and the Sunflower Assets Management System.
Minutes to the latest Line/Staff Office meetings are posted here with much other valuable information.
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