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March 4, 2016 Mr. Sergio Vidal, Assistant Directorof Finance and Management Services Agency City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 Dear Mr. Vidal: We are pleased to present our proposal to serve as independent auditors for the City of Santa Ana. We have prepared this information in accordance with the guidelines set forth in your request for proposal. Who We Are White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP is a California certified public accounting and consulting firm with offices in Irvine, Carlsbad and Escondido. Our firm has specialized in providing services to the governmental Industry for over 80 years and has no intentions of discontinuing these services. Why We Are The Best Qualified Firm We consider ourselves to be the best qualified firm to perform auditing and accounting services for the City of Santa Ana. Please consider these qualifications: • A significant part of our practice is devoted to providing professional services to the governmental industry and over the past year, the firm provided services to approximately 100 governmental organizations and on an annual basis our firm issues over 150 reports on audits of local governmental agencies including, Cities, the Successor Agency to Redevelopment Agencies, Special Districts and Joint Power Authorities. • Our firm has devoted a substantial amount of time and resources in order to provide governmental agencies with quality audits. Our knowledge of the industry is best demonstrated by the fact that our clients who apply for the "Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting" issued by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) consistently receive that award. A list of these clients is presented on page 7 of this proposal • We are in a professional alliance with BDO Seidman, a National Accounting Firm, and a network of accounting firms allowing us the ability to provide quality attestation services. The BDO Alliance provides us access to BDO's personnel and technical resources which allows White Nelson Diehl Evans LLP to deliver the range of services and capabilities of a large national firm, including the use of specialists to support the needs of our clients. • We are a full service CPA firm. Our Consulting Services Department can provide the City with a variety of services, including investment policy compliance reviews, litigation support, dispute resolution services, and consulting on a wide array of governmental issues. Our audits include extensive use of information technology as described in detail on page 8 of this proposal. 2975 NfichelleDnve, Sture 300, Ironie, CA 92606 -'Iel: 71=1.9'8,1300 > has. 71 9"8,7893 0 jtws loaded to Onwn,e and San I7rzgo G'oro:iier 25E-39