19C - EMPOWERMENT-FINANCIAL AUDIT FY 2009-2010

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Certified Pubt c Accountants. .. :5. .... ?f S;,: F?F. 4eF .? ?.:t '? mgocpa,corn To the Mayor and City Council of the City of Santa Ana We have audited the financial statements of the Santa Ana Empowerment Corporation (Organization) for the year ended June 30, 2010, and have issued our report thereon dated September 10, 2010. Professional standards require that we provide you with the following information related to our audit. Our Responsibilities under U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards and OMB Circular A-133 As stated in our engagement letter dated May 8, 2009, our responsibility, as described by professional standards, is to express an opinion about whether the financial statements prepared by management with your oversight are fairly presented, in all material respects, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Our audit of the financial statements does not relieve you or management of your responsibilities. In planning and performing our audit, we considered the Organization's internal control over financial reporting in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and not to provide assurance on the internal control over financial reporting. We also considered internal control over compliance with requirements that could have a direct and material effect on a major federal program in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on compliance and to test and report on internal control over compliance in accordance with OMB Circular A-133. As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the Organization's financial statements are free of material misstatement, we performed tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants, noncompliance with which could have a direct and material effect on the determination of financial statement amounts. However, providing an opinion on compliance with those provisions is not an objective of our audit. Also in accordance with OMB Circular A-133, we examined, on a test basis, evidence about the Organization's compliance with the types of compliance requirements described in the "U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement" applicable to its major federal program for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the Organization's compliance with those requirements. While our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion, it does not provide a legal determination on the Organization's compliance with those requirements. Planned Scope and Timing of the Audit An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements; therefore, our audit involved judgment about the number of transactions to be examined and the areas to be tested. EXHIBIT 1 ??i!'\?i .'(?2.?? ?? i l? t?, .:.:i f??. ;;: .lF,«. .?1 :?J.°ESf. k??, ? { ..??. it <S la..,i•t ?'' \ ? :.?Ir ? 1.`l i. ,?`! ?l ? ?,?/.? ice' b?