(a) Of the amounts from time to time appropriated by the General Assembly for the maintenance of the Governor's Mansion, a lump-sum monthly installment of one-twelfth (1/12) of the annual appropriation is authorized to be withdrawn by the disbursing officer of the Arkansas Governor's Mansion Commission to be used by him or her for the payment of all expenses incurred in the operation of the mansion, including the purchase of food and all miscellaneous items of a minor nature, and the expenditure of the funds so withdrawn shall not be subject to the purchasing laws or the laws relating to either the preaudit or postaudit of expenditures.
(b) The disbursing officer of the commission shall file with the Legislative Council an annual summary statement of expenditures made by him or her of the maintenance funds so withdrawn, together with a statement of the adequacy of the amount of the funds for operation of the mansion and grounds.