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I~DV • KERN • DEWEN'PER•VIERE INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT March 4, 2004 Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Falcon Heights Falcon Heights, Minnesota We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2003, which collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of the City's management. Our responsibility is • to express an opinion 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 includes exa,,,;ning, 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 audit provides a reasonable basis for our 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, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota, as of December 31, 2003, and the respective changes in financial position and cash flows, where applicable, thereof and the budgetary comparison for the General Fund for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The Management's Discussion and Analysis on pages 15 through 25 and the information on the City's modified approach to infrastructure reporting on page 62 are not a required part of the basic financial statements but are supplemental information required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. We have applied certain limited procedures, which consisted primarily of management inquiries regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the supplemental information. However, we did not audit the information and express no opinion on it. • 13