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ABDO EICK� & ME 1. RS LLP Ceriificd I'uGlic ,lccuunranls d Cix�srtltmtls July 26, 2021 Management, Honorable Mayor and City Council City of Lauderdale Lauderdale, Minnesota We are pleased to confirm our understanding of the services we are to provide the City of Lauderdale (the City) for the year ended December 31, 2021. We will audit the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, each major fund and the aggregate remaining fund information, including the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the basic financial statements of the City as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021, Accounting standards generally accepted in the United States of America provide for certain required supplementary information (RSI), such as management's discussion and analysis (MD&A), to supplement the City's 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. As part of our engagement, we will apply certain limited procedures to the City's RSI in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. These limited procedures will consist of inquiries of management regarding the methods of preparing 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 will 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. The following RSI is required by U.S generally accepted accounting principles and will be subjected to certain limited procedures, but will not be audited: 1) Management's Discussion and Analysis 2) Schedule of Funding Progress, Employer's Share of Net Pension Liability and Employer's Contributions We have also been engaged to report on supplementary information other than RSI that accompanies the City's financial statementsI We will subject the following supplementary information to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the financial statements and certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the financial statements or to the financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, and we will provide an opinion on it in relation to the financial statements as a whole, in a report combined with our auditor's report on the financial statements: 1) Combining and Individual Fund Financial Statements and Schedules The following other information accompanying the financial statements will not be subjected to the auditing procedures applied in our audit of the financial statements, and our auditor's report will not provide an opinion or any assurance on that other information. 1) Introductory Section 5201 Eden Avenue, Suite 250 10t) 4'Jarren Sizeet, Suite F,00 Edina, MN 55436 t:dan}:ata, ;+d4J 5600 t 952.835.9090 I Fax 952.835.3261 Office 507.525.2727 � Fax 507.33u".9139