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4810 White Bear Parkway, St. Paul, MN, 55110 651.426.7000 www.redpathcpas.com COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE CHARGED WITH GOVERNANCE To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information of City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota (the City) for the year ended December 31, 2016. Professional standards require that we provide you with information about our responsibilities under generally accepted auditing standards and Government Auditing Standards, as well as certain information related to the planned scope and timing of our audit. We have communicated such information in our letter to you dated January 4, 2017. Professional standards also require that we communicate to you the following information related to our audit. Qualitative Aspects of Accounting Practices Management is responsible for the selection and use of appropriate accounting policies. The significant accounting policies used by the City are described in Note 1 to the financial statements. No new accounting policies were adopted and the application of existing policies was not changed during 2016. However, GASB Statement No. 72, Fair Value Measurement and Application, GASB Statement No. 77, Tax Abatement Disclosures, and GASB Statement No. 79, Certain External Investment Pools and Pool Participants, were implemented during 2016 which enhanced disclosures regarding investments and tax increment financing districts. We noted no transactions entered into by the City during the year for which there is a lack of authoritative guidance or consensus. All significant transactions have been recognized in the financial statements in the proper period. Accounting estimates are an integral part of the financial statements prepared by management and are based on management’s knowledge and experience about past and current events and assumptions about future events. Certain accounting estimates are particularly sensitive because of their significance to the financial statements and because of the possibility that future events affecting them may differ significantly from those expected. The most sensitive estimates affecting the City’s financial statements were estimates of the net pension liability ($13,547,082) and the pension related deferred outflows and deferred inflows of resources. These estimates are based on actuarial studies. We evaluated the key factors and assumptions used to develop these estimates in determining that they are reasonable in relation to the financial statements taken as a whole.