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Honorable Mayor and the City Council <br />City of Elk River, Minnesota <br />We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for <br />our audit opinions. <br />Opinions <br />In our opinion, based on our audit and the report of other auditors, the financial statements referred to <br />above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental <br />activities, the business -type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and <br />the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Elk River as of December 31, 2020, and the <br />respective changes in financial position and, where applicable, cash flows thereof and the respective <br />budgetary comparison for the General fund for the year then ended in accordance with accounting <br />principles generally accepted in the United States of America. <br />Other Matters <br />Required Supplementary Information <br />Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the <br />management's discussion and analysis, schedules of proportionate share of net pension liability, <br />schedules of City's pension contributions, schedule of changes in the net pension liability and related <br />ratios - fire relief, schedule of city contributions - fire relief, and the schedule of changes in the total <br />OPEB liability and related ratios, as listed in the table of contents, be presented to supplement the <br />basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic financial statements, is <br />required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who considers it to be an essential part of <br />financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or <br />historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary <br />information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, <br />which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and <br />comparing the information for consistency with management's responses to our inquiries, the basic <br />financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial <br />statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the <br />limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any <br />assurance. <br />Other Information <br />Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that <br />collectively comprise the City of Elk River's basic financial statements. The introductory section, <br />combining and individual fund statements and schedules, and statistical sections are presented for <br />purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. <br />The combining and individual fund statements and schedules are the responsibility of management and <br />were derived from and relates directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare <br />the basic financial statements. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied <br />in the audit of the basic financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing <br />and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to <br />prepare the basic financial statements or to the basic financial statements themselves, and other <br />additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of <br />America. In our opinion, the combining and individual fund statements and schedules are fairly stated, <br />in all material respects, in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole. <br />N <br />