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Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council City of Lino Lakes 10 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 Lino Lakes as of December 31, 2013, and the respective changes in financial position and, where applicable, cash flows thereof for the ye ar 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, budgetary comparison information, and schedule of funding progress to postemployment benefit plan, as listed in the table of contents 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 pre paring 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 of Lino Lakes’ basic financial statements. The combining fund financial statements and other supplementary financial and other information, the introductory section, and statistical section are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements. The combining fund statements, the combining schedule of indebtedness, and the debt service payments to maturity – all bonds schedule 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 fund statements, the combining schedule of indebtedness, and the debt service payments to maturity – all bonds schedule are fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole. The introductory section, schedule of deferred tax levies, schedule of insurance in force, schedule of taxable valuations, tax levies, and tax rates, 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 it.