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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT <br />Honorable Mayor and City Council <br />City of Elk River, Minnesota <br />Report on the Financial Statements <br />We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, the discretely <br />presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Elk River, Minnesota (the <br />City), as of and for the year ended December 31, 2014, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise <br />the City's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. <br />Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements <br />Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting <br />principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal <br />control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due <br />to fraud or error. <br />Auditor's Responsibility <br />Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with <br />auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to <br />obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. <br />An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The <br />procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial <br />statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the <br />City's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the <br />circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's internal control. Accordingly, we <br />express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of <br />significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. <br />We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinions. <br />Opinions <br />In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the <br />governmental activities, the business -type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate <br />remaining fund information of the City as of December 31, 2014, and the respective changes in financial position and, where <br />applicable, cash flows thereof and the respective budgetary comparison for the General fund for the year then ended in accordance <br />with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. <br />5201 Eden Avenue. Suite 250 <br />Edina, MN 55436 <br />952.835.9090 1 Fax 952.835 3261 7 <br />