For City Council Meeting [April 28, 2020]
TO: Honorable City Council
APPROVAL: Rod Foster, City Manager
FROM: Stephen Erlandson, Deputy City Manager
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Request City Council, Rialto Housing Authority, Rialto Utility Authority and Successor Agency to Accept the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Audit Results and Receive and File the Fiscal Year 2018-19 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and Related Documents.
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BACKGROUND
In order to meet the guidelines set forth in Statement No. 1 of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), following the close of each fiscal year the City's external auditors conduct an audit of the City's financial records and assist in the compilation of the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). The audit is conducted in conformity with the Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS) which require that the independent auditor firm plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and examines evidence to support the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Once complete, an opinion is issued on the fairness of the presentation of the financial position and the results of operations of the financial statements of the City, in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as applicable to local governments.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION
The annual audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 has been completed by Teaman, Ramirez & Smith, Inc. The unmodified, or "clean", opinion given in the Independent Auditors' Report states that "the financial statements 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 Rialto, California, as of June 30, 2019, and the respective changes in financial position, and, where applicable, cash flows thereof for the ye...
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