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------- APlX) I ~ .1 CamflEll PullUC ~l..l.""'INT."""ITS ANIl GlNSUlT^t-l1'S I I INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON INTERNAL I CONTROL STRUCTURE BASED ON AN AUDIT OF GENERAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERFORMED IN I ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS Honorable Mayor and City Commission I City of Arden Hills, Minnesota We have audited the general purpose financial statements of the City of Arden Hills, Arden Hills, Minnesota as of I and for the year ended December 31, 1996 and bave issued our report thereon dated April 10, 1997. I We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the general purpose fmancial statements are free of -I material misstatement The management of the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota is responsible for establishing and maintaining an internal I control stmcture. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies and procedures. The objectives of an internal control structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are I safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, and that transactions are executed in accordance with managemenfs authorization and recorded properly to permit the preparation of general purpose fmancial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or irregularities may nevertheless occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of I the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and operation of policies and procedures may deteriorate. In planning and performing our audit of the general pmpose fmancial statements of the City of Arden Hills, I Minnesota for the year ended December 31, 1996, we obtained an understanding of the internal control structure. With respect to the internal control slnICture, we obtained an understanding of the desigu of relevant policies and procedures and whether they have been placed in operation, and we assessed control risk in order to determine our I auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the general purpose financial statements and not to provide an opinion on the internal control structure. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. I I . I -41- I