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PANNELL KERR FORSTER Certified Public Accountants INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL STRUCTURE BASED SOLELY ON A STUDY AND EVALUATION MADE AS A PART OF AN AUDIT OF THE GENERAL PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS City Council and Residents City of Ramsey Ramsey, Minnesota 400 Park National Bank Building 5353 Wayzata Boulevard Minneapolis, MN 55416 Telephone (612) 545-0421 Telefax 612-545-0569 We have audited the general purpose financial statements of the City of Ramsey, Minnesota, for the year ended December 31, 1989, and have issued our report thereon dated July 2, 1990. 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 state- ments are free of material misstatement. In planning and performing our audit of the general purpose financial statements of the City of Ramsey for the year ended December 31, 1989, we considered its internal control structure 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. The management of the City of Ramsey is responsible for establishing and main- taining an internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, esti- mates and judgements 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 financial 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. (Continued) -90-