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Vow <br />LarssnAlleni <br />CPAs, Consultants & Advisors <br />www.larsonallen.com <br />REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING <br />AND ON COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS BASED ON <br />AN AUDIT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERFORMED IN <br />ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS <br />Honorable Mayor and <br />Members of the City Council <br />City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota <br />We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, <br />each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota as <br />of and for the year ended December 31, 2006, which collectively comprise the City's basic financial <br />statements and have issued our report thereon dated May 30, 2007. We conducted our audit in <br />accordance with U.S. generally accepted auditing standards and the standards applicable to financial <br />audits contained in Govemment Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United <br />States. <br />Internal Control Over Financial Reporting <br />In planning and performing our audit, we considered the City's intemal control over financial reporting as <br />a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial <br />statements and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we <br />do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's intemal control over financial reporting. <br />Our consideration of the intemal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in <br />the preceding paragraph and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in intemal control over <br />financial reporting that might be significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. However, as <br />discussed below, we identified a certain deficiency in intemal control over financial reporting that we <br />consider to be a material weakness. <br />A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or <br />employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect <br />misstatements on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combination of <br />control deficiencies, that adversely affects the City's ability to initiate, authorize, record, process, or <br />report financial data reliably in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles such that <br />there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the City's financial statements that is more <br />than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected by the City's intemal control over financial <br />reporting. A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that <br />results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not <br />be prevented or detected by the City's intemal control. <br />INTERNATIONAL <br />(1) <br />LarsonAllen LLP is a member of Nexia International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and consulting firms. <br />