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Exhibit 2 <br />Clifton LarsonAllen LLP <br />. CLAconnect.com <br />INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER <br />FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ON COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS <br />BASED ON AN AUDIT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERFORMED <br />IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS <br />Honorable Mayor and <br />Members of the City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Santa Ana, California <br />We have audited, in accordance with the auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of <br />America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards <br />issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental <br />activities, the business -type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information <br />of the City of Santa Ana, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2023, and the related notes to the <br />financial statements, which collectively comprise the City of Santa Ana's basic financial statements, and <br />have issued our report thereon dated December 11, 2023. <br />Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting <br />In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements, we considered the City of Santa Ana's <br />internal control over financial reporting (internal control) as a basis for designing audit procedures that <br />are appropriate in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial <br />statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the City of Santa <br />Ana's internal control. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the City of <br />Santa Ana's internal control. <br />A deficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow <br />management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent, or <br />detect and correct, misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a <br />combination of deficiencies, in internal control, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material <br />misstatement of the entity's financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected, on a <br />timely basis. A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control <br />that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged <br />with governance. <br />Our consideration of internal control was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph of this <br />section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control that might be material <br />weaknesses or significant deficiencies. Given these limitations, during our audit we did not identify any <br />deficiencies in internal control that we consider to be material weaknesses. However, material <br />weaknesses or significant deficiencies may exist that were not identified. <br />CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen LLP) is an independent network member of CLA Global. See CLAglobal.com/disclaimer <br />