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Lars•nAlleri C PAs, COIISuuIt2fl;2 & Advisors www.iarsonattenlorn INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Lino Lakes, 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 Lino Lakes, Minnesota as of and for the year ended December 31, 2008, 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 opinions on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Gaverrrmena Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. 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 examining, 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 ow audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions. in out opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota as of December 31, 2008, and the respective changes in financial position and cash flows, where applicable, thereof and for the year then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted acmuuting principles. In accordance with Government Audiring Standards, we have also issued a report dated May 26, 2009 on our consideration of the City's internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, grant agreements, and other mane's. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and should be considered in assessing the results of our audit. The management's discussion and analysis, budgetary comparison information and schedule of funding progress as listed in the table of contents are not a required part of the basic fmancial statements but are supplementary information required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. We have applied certain limited procedures, which consisted principally of inquires of management regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the required supplementary information. However, we did not audit the information and express no opinion on it. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements. The accompanying supplementary information, including the introductory section, combining fund financial statements, supplementary financial information and statistical section listed in the table of contents are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such information, except for the introductory and statistical sections on which we express no opinion, bas been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the basic financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole. Minneapolis, Minnesota May 26, 2009 IV -2 LarsonAllen LLP