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MALLOY MONTi4GUE KARNOWSKI RADOSEVICH NCO., RA. jNDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON THE INTERNAL C'nNTRnT. STRTTC:TTTRF BASED ON AN AUDIT OF THE. ~l 1 GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS City Council and Residents City of Ramsey Ramsey, Minnesota PRINCIPALS KENNETH W. MALLOY, CPA THOMAS M. MONTAGUE, CPA THOMAS A. KARNOWSKI, CPA PAULA. RADOSEVICH, CPA WILLIAM J. LAUER, CPA We have audited the general purpose financial statements of the City of Ramsey, Minnesota, as of and for the year ended December 31, 1996, and have issued our report thereon dated March 25, 1997. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and Government 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 general purpose financial statements are free of material misstatement. The management of the City of Ramsey is responsible for establishing and maintaining an internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies and procedures. The objectives of an internal control structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, and that transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit the preparation of general purpose fmancial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure, errors or irregularities may nevertheless occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of the structure to future periods is subject to the risk that procedures may become inadequate because of changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and operation of policies and procedures may deteriorate. In planning and performing our audit of the general purpose financial statements of the City of Ramsey for the year ended December 31, 1996, we obtained an understanding of the internal control structure. With respect to the internal control structure, we obtained an understanding of the design of relevant policies and procedures and whether they have been placed in operation, and we assessed control risk in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the general purpose financial statements and not to provide assurance on the internal control structure. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. (continued) 410 PARK NATIONAL BANK BUILDING 5353 WAYZATA BOULEVARD ~1 1 L~ MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55416 11V TE LE P H O N E:612-545-0424 TELEFAX: 612-545-0569