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Significant Audit Findings (Continued) <br />Management Representations <br />We have requested certain representations from management that are included in the management <br />representation letter dated December 10, 2020. <br />Management Consultations with Other Independent Accountants <br />In some cases, management may decide to consult with other accountants about auditing and <br />accounting matters, similar to obtaining a "second opinion" on certain situations. If a consultation <br />involves application of an accounting principle to the City's financial statements or a determination of <br />the type of auditor's opinion that may be expressed on those statements, our professional standards <br />require the consulting accountant to check with us to determine that the consultant has all the relevant <br />facts. To our knowledge, there were no such consultations with other accountants. <br />Other Audit Findings or Issues <br />We generally discuss a variety of matters, including the application of accounting principles and <br />auditing standards, with management each year prior to retention as the City's auditors. However, <br />these discussions occurred in the normal course of our professional relationship and our responses <br />were not a condition to our retention. <br />Other Matters <br />We applied certain Iirnited procedures to the Management's Discussion and Analysis, Budgetary <br />Comparison Schedules - General and Major Special Revenue funds, Notes to the Required <br />Supplementary Information, Schedule of Changes in Net Pension Liability and Related Ratios and <br />Schedule of Plan Contributions for the Miscellaneous, Safety, and Supplementary Retirement Plans, <br />and Schedule of Changes in the Total OPEB Liability and Related Ratios, which are required <br />supplementary information (RSI) that supplements the basic financial statements. Our procedures <br />consisted of inquiries of management regarding the methods of preparing the information and <br />comparing the information for consistency with management's responses to our inquiries, the basic <br />financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial <br />statements. We did not audit the RSI and do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the <br />RSI. <br />We were engaged to report on the combining and individual non -major fund financial statements and <br />schedules (supplementary information), which accompany the financial statements but are not RSI. <br />With respect to this supplementary information, we made certain inquiries of management and <br />evaluated the form, content, and methods of preparing the information to determine that the <br />information complies with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, <br />the method of preparing it has not changed from the prior period, and the information is appropriate <br />and complete in relation to our audit of the financial statements. We compared and reconciled the <br />supplementary information to the underlying accounting records used to prepare the financial <br />statements or to the financial statements themselves. <br />3 <br />