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• •ABDO L• EICK & MEYERS LLP Certified Public Accountants& Consultants Grandview Square 5201 Eden Avenue Suite 370 Edina,MN 55436 INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT To the Chairperson and Members of the Commission Elk River Municipal Utilities Elk River,Minnesota We have audited the accompanying combining statements of net assets of the Elk River Municipal Utilities(the Utilities) of the City of Elk River,Minnesota,as of December 31,2003 and 2002 and the related combining statements of revenue, expenses and changes in net assets and cash flows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Utilities' management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management,as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. As discussed in Note IA,the financial statements present only the Electric and Water enterprise funds and are not intended to present fairly the financial position of the City of Elk River,Minnesota and the results of its operations and cash flows of its proprietary fund types in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. As described in Note 6, the Utilities has implemented a new financial reporting model,as required by the provisions of GASB Statement No. 34,Basic Financial Statements-and Management's Discussion and Analysis-for State and Local Governments, as of December 31,2003. The Management's Discussion and Analysis on pages I through IV, is not a required part of the combining financial statements but is supplementary information required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. We have applied certain limited procedures,which consisted principally of inquiries of management regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the supplementary information. However,we did not audit the information and express no opinion on it. In our opinion,the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,the financial position of the Electric and Water enterprise funds of the City of Elk River,Minnesota as of December 31,2003 and 2002 and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Our audits were performed for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements taken as a whole. The supplemental information listed in the table of contents is presented for the purpose of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements of the Utilities. Such information,except for that portion marked"unaudited"on which we express no opinion,has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audits of the financial statements and,in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole. March 19, 2004 ABDO, EICK&MEYERS,LLP Minneapolis,Minnesota Certified Public Accountants 952.835.9090 • Fax 952.835.3261 www.aemcpas.com