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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Elk River,Minnesota Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities,the business-type activities,the discretely presented component unit,each major fund,and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Elk River,Minnesota(the City),as of and for the year ended December 31,2014,and the related notes to the financial statements,which collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America;this includes the design,implementation,and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement,whether due to baud or error. Auditor's Responsibility Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements based on our audit We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor's judgment,including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements,whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments,the auditor considers internal control relevant to the City's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances,but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's internal control. Accordingly,we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management,as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinions. Opinions In our opinion,the financial statements referred to above present fairly,in all material respects,the respective financial position of the governmental activities,the business-type activities,the discretely presented component unit,each major fund,and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City as of December 31,2014,and the respective changes in financial position and,where applicable,cash flows thereof and the respective budgetary comparison for the General fund for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Other Matters Required Supplementary Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the Management's Discussion and Analysis starting on page 9 and the Schedule of Funding Progress on page 63 be presented to supplement the basic financial statements.Such information,although not a part of the basic financial statements,is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic,or historical context.We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America,which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with management's responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements,and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements.We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. Other Information Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements.The introductory section,combining and individual fund financial statements and schedules,and statistical section are presented for the purpose of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. The combining and individual fund financial statements and schedules are the responsibility of management and were derived from and relate directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements.Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements or to the basic financial statements themselves,and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.In our opinion,the combining and individual fund financial statements and schedules are fairly stated,in all material respects,in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole. The introductory section and statistical section have not been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and,accordingly,we do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on them. °Lib tau? ABDO,EICK&MEYERS,LLP Minneapolis,Minnesota May 7,2015 111P2