08-1007Conncil File
RESOLUTION
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Wf�REAS, pursuant to Minn. Stat. 6.49 the Office of the State Auditor has completed the audit of the City of Saint Paul
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for fiscal yeaz ended December 31, 2007 in accordance with auditing standazds
generally accepted in the United States and the standards applicable to financial audits contamed in Government Auditing
Standards, issued by the Compuoller General of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the City has received a Mana�ement and Compliance Report for the yeaz ended December 31, 2007 prepazed by
the Office of the State Auditor as a result of their audit; and
WHEREAS, the State Auditor based on their audit, has given the City's basic financial statements an unqualified opurion, wluch
indicates the City's financial statements aze fauly presented and free of material irusstatement; and
WHEREAS, new pracrices and pLOCeduces have been put in place to correct the audit findings relating to intemal controls and
administrarion of federal programs; and
WHEREAS, the Statement on Auditing Standazds No. ll 4— The Auditor's Communication With Those Charged With
Governance is effecrive for the 2007 audit and requires the Office of the State Auditor to communicate these results to the
Mayor and City Council.
RESOLVED, the Mayor and Saint Paul City Council accepT the Management and Compliance Report fot the yeaz ended
December 31, 2007 as provided by the Office of the State Auditor.
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Accept the Management and Compliance Report for fical yeaz ended December 31, 2007 from the Office of the State Auditors.
itlations: Approve (A) or Rejeet (R): Personal Service Contrects Must Answer the Following Questions:
Planning Commission 1. Has this person(firm ever worked under a contract for this tlepartment?
CIB Committee Yes No
Civil Service Commission 2. Has this person/firm ever been a city employee?
Yes No
3. Ooes this person/firm possess a skill not normally possessed by any
current city employee?
Yes No
, Explain aIl yes answers on separate sheet and a$ach to green sheet
Initiating Problem, Issues, Opportunity (Who, What, When, Where, Why):
The State Auditor has requested to appeaz at City Council meeting to communicate the results of the Ciry's Audit for yeaz ended as
part of new auditing standazds.
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STATE OF MINNESOTA
Office of the State Auditor
Rebecca Otto
State Auditor
MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE REPORT
PREPARED AS A RESULT OF THE AUDIT OF THE
CITY OF SAINT PAUL
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2007
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! Descriprion of the Office of the State Auditor
The mission of the Office of the State Auditor is to oversee local govemment finances for
Minnesota taxpayers by helping to ensure financial integrity and accountability in local
governmental financial activities.
Through financial, compliance, and special audits, the State Auditor oversees and ensures that
local govemment funds are used for the purposes intended by law and that local governments
hold themselves to the highest standards of financial accountability.
The State Auditar performs approximately ] 60 financial and compliance audits per year and has
oversight responsibiliries for over 3,300 local units of government throughout the state. The
office currently maintains five divisions:
Audit Practice - conducts financial and legal compliance audits of local governments;
Gavernment Information - collects and analyzes financial information for cities, towns,
counties, and special districts;
Legal/Special Investigations - provides legal analysis and counsel to the Office and responds to
outside inquiries about Minnesota local govemment law; as well as investigates allegarions of
misfeasance, malfeasance, and nonfeasance in local government;
Pension - monitors investment, financial, and actuarial reporting for approximately 730 public
pension funds; and
Taz Increment Financing - promotes compliance and accountability in local governments' use
of tax increment financing through financial and compliance audits.
The State Auditor serves on the State Execurive Council, State Board of Inveshnent, Land
Exchange Board, Public Employees Retirement Association Board, Minnesota Housing Finance
Agency, and the Rural Finance Authority Board.
Office of the State Auditor
525 Park Street, Suite 500
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55103
(651)296-2551
state. auditor@state.mn. us
www . auditor. state.mn. us
This document can be made available in alternative formats upon request. Call 651-296-2551
[voice] or 1-800-627-3529 [relay service] for assistance; or visit the Office of the State Auditor's
web site: www.auditor.state.mn.us.
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� CITY OF SAINT PAUL
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Year Ended December 31, 2007
Management and Campliance Report
Audit Practice Division
Office of the State Auditor
State of Minnesota
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SAINT PAUL, NIINNESOTA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reference Page
Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs Schedule 1
I. Summary of Auditor's Results
II. Findings Related to Financial Statements Audited in
Accordance with Government Auditing Standards
III. Findings and Questioned Costs for Federal Award
Programs
Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and
on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of
Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with
Government Auditing Standards
Report on Compliance with Requirements Applicable
to Bach Major Program and Intemal Control Over
Compliance in Accordance with OMB Circular A-133
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Schedule of Expendituxes of Federal Awards Schedule 2 13
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CITY OF SALriT PAUL
SAIlVT PALJL, NIINNESOTA
Schedule 1
SCHEDULE OF FINDINGS AND QUESTIONED COSTS
FOR THE YEAK ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2007
I. SUMMARY OF AUDTTOR'S RESULTS
A. Our zeport expresses unqualified opinions on the basic financial statements of the
City of Saint Paul.
B. Deficiencies in intemal control were disclosed by the audit of the financial
statements of the City of Saint Paul and are reported in the "Report on Internal
Control Over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based
on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government
Auditing Standards." Both of the significant deficiencies are material
weaknesses.
C. No instances of noncompliance material to the financial statements of the City of
Saint Paul were disclosed during the audit.
D. A significant deficiency relating to the audit of the major federal award programs
is reported in the "Report on Compliance with Requirements Applicable to Each
Major Program and Internal Control Ovex Compliance in Accordance with
OMB Girculaz A-133." The significant deficiency is not a material wealrness.
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The Auditor's Report on Compliance for the majar federal award programs for
the City of Saint Paul expresses an unqualified opinion.
A finding relative to a major federal award program for the City of Saint Paul was
reported as required by Section 510(a) of OMB Circulaz A-133.
The major programs are:
Emergency Shelter Grants Program
Community Development Block Grants/Bzownfields
Economic Development Initiarive
Highway Planning and Construction
Urban Areas Security Initiarive
Homeland Security Grant Program
CFDA #14.231
CFDA #14.246
CFDA #20.205
CFDA #97.008
CFDA #97.067
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H. The threshold for disrinb ishing between Types A and B programs was $535,546.
I. The City of Saint Paul was determined to be a low-risk auditee.
II. FINDINGS RELATED TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AUDITED IN
ACCORDANCE WITA GOVERNMENTAUDITINGSTANDARDS
1NTERNAL CONTROL
ITEMS ARTSING THIS YEAR
07-1 Notes and Loans Receivable
During our audit procedure confirming the notes and loans receivable balance, we
received five confirmations with a discrepancy between what the borrowers stated as
their principal balance at November 30, 2007, and the balance that the HRA had recorded
on the Nortridge System as of the same date. According to the Nortridge System, the
cumulative principal balance of these five confixmations was $2,914,926, while the
bonowers reported principal balances totaling $2,148,695, a dafference of $766,23L In
accordance with the stated terxns and conditions, the loan principals had been either
partially or completely forgiven. The loan officers/project managers were responsible for
communicating with the proper accounting pexsonnel to adjust the loan balances to
ensure that the Norlridge System reflected the proper receivable balances outstanding.
However, due to a lack of communication or a communication breakdown, this
information was not properly received, and the Nortridge System was not accordingly
adjusted.
The discrepancies between the bonowers' and the HRA's records that existed as of
November 30 potentially could have carried over indefinitely beyond the date of the
financial statements. A material audit adjustment was made, as identified in
Finding 07-2, to cozrect the overstated loans receivable for the year-end December 31,
2007, financial statements.
We recommend that the HRA review internal controls currently in place, especially
relating to communication, and then design and implement pxocedures to improve
intemal controls to timely detect and prevent inaccuracies in the Nortridge System and
misstatements in the financial statements.
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Client's Resnonse:
In less than a four-month span from December 2007 through March 2008, the
department's three senior accounting staff members retired. Retirees included Planning
and Economic Development's (PED) two supervisory accountants, and our operations
and parking accountant. Three new staff leaming PED's business and accounting
practices, coupled with a new, earlier timeframe for preparing subsequent year budgets
for the Mayor and City Council, has made preparing for the 2007 audit particularly
challenging. In addition, GASB issuance of several new accounting standards has
sign�cantly increased complecity offtnancial statements, thus putting more pressure on
our new staff. While our operations budget will not provide for an increase in
accounting staff to deal with these and other accounting demands, PED remains
committed to woYking diligently to review fnancial statements prior to the audit.
By July 31, 2008, we will imptement a new toan review servicing system to ensure
Nortridge loan balances are correct. This new procedure will include cross-checks
among the Loan Servicing Group, Project Managers, the Nortridge Loan Administrator,
and HRA's lead accountant. (All other loans �iles are handled annuallv bv HRA Loan
Servicin�(or such items as insurance and other administrative requirements. Each
Proiect MunaQer also conducts an annual loan portfolio review.)
Firzally, a reminder directive from the PED Director's Office will be communicated to all
PED staff requiring a prompt response by all PED staff to any/all requests from the State
Auditor. Team Leaders will ensure compliance with this directive as well.
07-2 Audit Adiustments
A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow
management or employees in the normal course of performing their assigned funcrions,
to prevent ox detect misstatements of the financial statements on a timely basis.
Statement on Auditing Standards No. 112 states that one control deficiency that shall be
regazded as at least a significant deficiency is identification by the auditor of a material
misstatement in the financial statements that was not inirially identified by the entity's
internal controls, even if management subsequently conects the misstatement.
During our audit, we identified the following material adjashnent:
- Notes and loans receivable, net of allowance, decreased by $189,811, and the
related operaring expenses were increased by the same amount in the HRA Loan
Enterprise �und.
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The proposed audit adjus�nent was reviewed and approved by the appropriate staff and is
reflected in the financial statements. However, by definirion, independent external
auditors cannot be considered part of the HRA's intemal control.
We recommend the HRA strengthen and monitor the intemal controls related to notes
and loans receivable to improve the detecrion of misstatements in the financial
statements.
ClienY s Resroonse:
Implemendation of tnternal controls related to the cause of Finding 07-1 (i.e., new loan
review servicing system) will correct the factors which resulted in Finding 07-2, audit
adjustments.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED ITEM RESOLVED
Restatement (06-1)
The City made a prior period adjushnent to the 7anuary l, 2006, net asset balances for the
Sewer Utility Enterprise Fund and the business-type activities.
Resolution
The City was not required to make any prior period adjustments to its January 1, 2007,
net asset balances as previously reported in its financial statements.
IIL FINAINGS ANA QUESTIONED COSTS FOR F�DERAI, AWARD PROGRAMS
INTERNAL CONTROL
ITEM ARISING TAIS YEAR
07-3 Davis-Bacon Act - Hi�hwav PlanninQ and Construction (CFDA #20.2051
When required by the Davis-Bacon Act, all laborers and mechanics employed by the
contractars or subcontractors to work on construction contracts in excess of $2,000
financed by federal assistance funds must be paid wages not less than those established
far the locality of the project.
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One of the construcrion projects, Como $ikeway Project, financed by Highway Planning
and Conshucrion funds, was administered by the City's Public Works Traffic
Engineering Division. The project manager of the Como Bikeway Project believed that
the City's Human Rights Deparhnent was monitoring compliance with the Davis-Bacon
Act. The project manager, upon learning that the City's Human Rights Department was
not responsible for monitoring compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act for this project,
obtained information on the process for monitoring compliance with the Davis-Bacon
Act from the Public Works Sheet Construction Engineering Division and then began to
monitor the Como Bikeway Project for compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act.
We recommend that the Depariment of Public Works review its system for monitoring
projects for compliance with the Davis-Bacon Act, when applicable.
Corrective Action Plan (Depariment of Public Works):
Contact Person(s):
Rhonda Gillquist, Accountant IV
(6S7) 266-6070
Dan Haakm, Assistant City Engineer
(651) 266-6084
Conective Action Plan
During the audit of the 2007 YeaY End Financial Statements by the State Auditor, it
was discovered that the monitoYing for compliance of prevailing wages for the
Como Avenue Bike Lane project was not being done by the project manager. The
project manager mi.rtakenly believed that this monitoring was done by the City's
Human Rights Deparhnent.
Upon Zearnzng of the need to perform wage monitoring, the project manager
obtained the necessary payroll dacumentation and completed the rrzonitoring.
Unfortunately, the contract has been completed and the project manager was not
able to conduct field interviews. All of the payrolls for the specific time period for
the main contractor have been checked. There were no findings of non-compliance
for the contractoY's payrolls. All payroll documentation for the subcontractors will
also be obtained and checkecl.
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To ensure that this does not occur in the future, training will be provided to project
managers on the requirements of monitoring for compliance ofprevailing wages for
all federally funded projects. The need to monitor wages wiZ1 also be reviewed ¢t
pre-construction meetings with contractors.
Anricipated Complerion Date:
Anticipated completion date for the project manager's review of all payroll
documentation is June 3Q 2008.
Anticipated completion date for training of staff new to project management is
September 30, 2008. Staff training will continue orc an as-needed basis.
Sfaff will attend Minnesota Departrnent of Transportation (Mn/DOT) training when
available.
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OF THE STATE AUDITOR
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REBECCA 01�'O SAL�IT PAI7L, MN 55103-2139 state audnor@sta�te�inn.us (E-ma )
STATE AGDSTOR t-300-G27-3S29 (Relay Service)
REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
AND ON COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS BASED ON AN
AUDTT OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS PERFORMED Il�
ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERIVMENTAUDITINGSTANDARDS
Mayor and Members of the Ciry Council
Ciry of Saint Paul, Minnesota
We have audited the financial statements of the govemmental activities, the business-type
activiries, the aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the
aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, as of and for the year
ended December 31, 2007, and have issued our report thereon dated July 25, 2008. Our report
was modified to include refarences to other auditors. We conducted our audit in accordance with
auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standazds
applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the
Comptroller General of the United States. Other auditars audited the financial statements of the
Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention and Visitors Authority, which represent 2 percent, less than
1 percent, and 18 percent, respecrively, and the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul, which
represent 28 percent, 12 percent, and 20 percent, respecrively, of the assets, net assets, and
revenues of the aggregate discretely presented component units, as described in our report on the
City of Saint Paul's financial statements. This report does not include the results of the other
auditor's testing of intemal con�ol over financial reporting or compliance and other matters that
are reported on separately by those auditors. The financial statements of the Saint Paul
RiverCentre Convention and Visitors Authority and the Port Authority of the City of Saint Paul
were not audited in accordance with Governn:ent Auditing Standards.
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
In planning and performing our audit, we considered the City of Saint Paul's intemal control
over financial reporting as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of
expressing our opinions on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an
opinion on the effectiveness of the City's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly,
we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's intemal control over financial
reporting.
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Our consideration of intemal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose
described in the preceding pazagraph of this section and would not necessarily idenrify all
deficiencies in intemal control over financial reporting that might be significant deficiencies or
matezial weaknesses. However, as discussed below, we idenrified certain deficiencies ln lnternal
control over financial reporting that we consider to be significant deficiencies.
A control deficiency exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management
or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent or detect
misstatements on a rimely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or combinarion
of control deficiencies, that adversely affects the City's ability to iniriate, authorize, record,
process, or report financial data reliably in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles such that there is more than a remote likelihood that a misstatement of the City's
financial statements that is more than inconsequential will not be prevented or detected by the
City's intemal control. We considered the deficiencies described in the accompanying Schedule
of Findings and Quesrioned Costs as items 07-1 and 07-2 to be significant deficiencies in internal
control over financial reporting.
A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that .
results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the financial statements
will not be prevented or detected by the City of Saint PauPs intemal control.
Our consideration of intema] control over financial xeporting was for the limited purpose
described in the first para�aph of this section and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies
in internal control that might be significant deficiencies and, accordingly, would not necessarily
disclose all significant deficiencies that are also considered to be material weal:nesses. However,
both of the significant deficiencies described above are material weaknesses.
Comroliance and Other Matters
As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the City of Saint Paul's financial
statements are free of material misstatement, we performed tests of its compliance with certain
provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements, 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 was not an objecrive of our
audit and, accardingly, we do not express such an opinion. The results of our tests disclosed no
instances of noncompliance or other matters that are required to be reported under Government
Audicircg Standards.
Minnesota Legal Compliance
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United
States of America and the provisions of the Minnesota Legal Compliance Audit Guide foY Local
Government, pxomulgated by the State Auditor pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 6.65. Accordingly, the
audit included such tests of the accounring records and such other audiring procedures as we
considered necessary in the circumstances.
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e Minnesota Legal Comp[iance Audit Guide for Local Government contains seven categories
of compliance to be tested: contracting and bidding, deposits and inveshnents, conflicts of
interest, public indebtedness, claims and disbursements, taY increment financing, and
miscellaneous provisions. Our study included all of the listed categories.
The results of our tests indicate that, for the items tested, the City of Saint Paul complied with the
material terms and conditions of applicable legal provisions.
The City of Saint PauPs cvritten responses to the material weaknesses idenrified in our audit have
been included in the Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs. We did not audit the City's
responses and, accordingly, we express no opinion on them.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Mayor, the City Council, the
City's management, others within the City of Saint Paul, and federal awarding agencies and
pass-through entities and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than
those specified parties.
1slRebecca Otto
REBECCA OTTO
STATE AUDITOR
July 25, 2008
/slGreg Hierlinger
GREG HTERLINGER, CPA
DEPUTY STATE AUDITOR
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OF THE STATE AUDITOR
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REBECCA OTTO SAINT PAUL, MN 5� 103-2139 state.aud�tor@state us (E nFa )
S?ATE AliDITOR 1-300-627-3529 (Relay Strvfce)
REPORT ON COMYLIANCE WITH REQUIREMENTS APPLICABLE TO
EACH MAJOR PROGRAM AND INTERNAL CONTROL OVER
COMPLIANCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH OMB CIRCULAR A-133
Mayor and Members of the City Council
City of Saint Paul, Minnesota
Compliance
We have audited the compliance of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, with the types of
compliance requirements described in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
CircularA-I33 Compliance Supplement that are applicable to each of its major federal programs
for the year ended December 31, 2007. The City of Saint Paul's ma}or federal programs are
idenrified in the Summary of Auditor's Results section of the accompanying Schedule of
Findings and Questioned Costs. Compliance with the requirements of laws, regulations,
contracts, and grants applicable to each of its major federal programs is the responsibility of the
City's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the City's compliance based
on our audit.
The Ciry of Saint Paul's financial statements include the operations of the Housing and
Redevelopment Authority (HRA} of the City of Saint Paul, a component unit of the City, which
eYpended $1,565,113 in federal awards during the year ended December 31, 2007, which aze not
included in the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awazds. Our audit, described below, did
not include the operations of the HRA because it had a separate single audit in accordance with
OMB Circular A-133.
We conducted our audit of compliance in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted
in the United States of America; the standards applicable to financial audits contained in
Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States; and
OMB Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Govenaments, and Non-Projit Organizations.
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Those standazds and OMB Cizcular A-133 require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether noncompliance with the types of compliance requirements
referred to above that could have a direct and material effect on a major federal program
occuned. An audit 3ncludes examining, on a test basis, evidence about the City of Saint Paul's
compliance with those requirements and perfomung such other procedures as we considered
necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our
opinion. Our audit does not pzovide a legal determinarion on the City's compliance with those
requirements.
Tn our opinion, the City of Saint Paul complied, in all material respects, with the requirements
refened to above that are applicable to each of its major federal programs for the year ended
December 31, 2007.
Internal Control Over Compliance
The management of the City of Saint Paul is responsible for establishing and anaintaining
effective intemal control over compliance with requirements of laws, regularions, contracts, and
grants applicable to federal programs. In planning and pexforming our audit, we considered the
Ciry's internal cont�ol 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, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the
effecriveness of intemal control over compliance. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on
the effectiveness of the City's Internal control over compliance.
Our consideration of internal control over compliance was for the limited ptupose described in
the preceding paragraph and would not necessarily identify all deficiencies in the City of Saant
PauPs internal control that might be significant deficiencies or material wealatesses as defined
below. However as discussed below, we identified a deficiency in internal control over
compliance that we consider to be a significant deficiency.
A control deficiency in internal control over compliance exists when the design ar operarion of a
control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their
assigned functions, to prevent or detect noncompliance with a type of compliance requirement of
a federal program on a timely basis. A significant deficiency is a control deficiency, or
combination of control deficiencies, that adversely affects the City's ability to administer a
federal program such that there is more than a xemote likelihood that noncompliance with a type
of compliance requirement of a federal program that is more than inconsequential will not be
prevented or detected by the City's intemal control. We consider the deficiency in intemal
control over compliance in the accompanying Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs as
item 07-3 to be a significant deficiency.
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A material weakness is a significant deficiency, oz combination of significant deficiencies, that
results in more than a remote likelihood that material noncompliance with a type of compliance
requirement of a federal program will not be prevented or detected by the City of Saint Paul's
internal control. We did not consider the deficiency described in the accompanying Schedule of
Findings and Questioned Costs to be a material weakness.
Schedule ofExpenditures ofFederal Awards
We have audited the financial statements of the governmental acrivities, the business-type
activiries, the aggregate discreteiy presented component units, each major fund, and the
aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, as of and for the year
ended December 31, 2007, and have issued our report thereon dated July 25, 2008. We did not
audit the financial statements of the Saint Paul RiverCentre Convention and Visitors Authority,
which represent 2 percent, less than 1 percent, and 18 percent, respecrively, and the Port
Authority of the Ciry of Saint Paul, which represent 28 percent, 12 percent, and 20 percent,
respectively, of the assets, net assets, and revenues of the aggregate discretely piesented
component units. Those financial statements were audited by other auditors. Our audit was
performed for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively
comprise the City of Saint Paul's basic financial statements. The accompanying Schedule of
Expenditures of Federal Awards is presented for purposes of addirional analysis as required by
OMB Circular A-133 and is not a required part of the basic financial statements. Such
information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic
financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the
basic financial statements taken as a whole.
The City of Saint Paul's conective action plan to the federal award finding identified in our audit
is included in the accompanying Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs. We did not audit
the City's corrective action plan and, accordingly, we express no opinion on it.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of the Mayor, the City Council, the
City's management, others within the City of Saint Paul, and federal awarding agencies and
pass-through entiries and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than
those specified parties.
/s/Rebecca Otto
REBECCA OTTO
STATE AUDITOR
July 25, 2008
/s/Greg Hierlinger
GREG HIERLINGER, CPA
DEPUTY STATE AUDITOR
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CITY OF SAINT PAUL
SAINT PAUL, M7N?VESOTA
Schedule 2
SCHEDUI.E OF EXPEYDITURES OF FEDERAI., AWAILDS
FOR THE YEAR E.\DED DECEbIBER 31, 2007
Fedual Grantor
Pass-Throug4 Agency
Grant Pros+am Title
U.S. Department of Commerce
Dfrect Gretn
Investments for Public Works and Economic Development Facilities
U-S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
D¢ect Grnn4
Commumty Devetopttsnt Bbck GsanWEnhtlement Grnnts
Emergency Shelter Grazau Rograzn
Co=rununiry Develo}xnent Block Csrants7Brownfields Econo{mc
Development Ininative (BEDI, Sect�on 108)
Total U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Developmen[
U.S. Department of the Interior
Direct Cttant
Rives, Tcails and Conservation Ass�stance
Lilydale Park Trni( Connection
U.S. DepartmenY of Justice
Direct 6rants
Services forTrafficking Vicnms
M�ssing Childreds Assistance - Intemet Cnmes Against Ch�Idren
Grants to Fncourage Arrest Polic�es and Enforcement of Protection
Orders - First LighS Accouniabiliry, Response, and Enfircement
(FLARE)
Pu6lic Safety Par[nership and Commun�ry Pohcmg Cttants
Cops Moce Technoloay
Cops More 2002
Secw�e G�r Schools
�
Gang Resistance Education and Traming (G R.E.A.T ) Program
Edwazd Byme Memonal Jushce Ass�stance Grant Rogram
Jus6ce Ass�stance
Passed ThroughMmnesota Department of PubLc Safriy
Juvemle Accountalvlity B(ock G7ants
Tifle V- Delmquency Pcevention Rogrnm
Edward Byme Memoiial Focmula Granc Pcogrnm
African American immtgmnt and Musi�m Healmg ImnaUVe
Anti-Gang InaiaYive
Youth Gang 3nierven4on
Passed Through National Assoc�anon ofPolice AthleliGActivfies
Leagues
Part E- Developing 7'csting, and Demonstratmg Promismg New
Proarams
Youth Enrichment Rngram
Federal
CFDA
Number
I 1 300
l4 218
I4 231
14 246
15 921
16.320
16.543
I6 590
l6 710
16.710
16 710
16 937
16.738
16.523
1Cti548
16.579
7 6 744
1fi.541
Passed
Through to
Expenditures Subrecipienzs
5 301,193 $
$ 10,741,31t $ 4,388,638
24I,166 217,596
__ 419,321 _____
$ 11,401,795 $_ 4,60b,234
$ 97,D00 $
$ 163,567 $ -
305,418 -
Iti$891 -
99,451 -
1,554 -
14,983 -
6,158 -
249,348 -
9,515 -
60,�00 -
65,919 -
11,845 -
7,SCd -
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CITY OF SAINT PAUL
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Sckedule 2
(Confuiued)
SCHEDULE OF EXPEHDITURBS OF FEDERAT. AWARDS
FOR THE YEAR ENUED DECE:ySER 31, 2007
Federal Grantor
Pass-Through.4gency
Grant Proo�m Title
U.S. Department of Justire (Continued)
Pused'I}irough Ramsey County, Minnesota
Edv2rd Byme Memorial Jusnce Assistance Gru�t Rogrnm
Narcotics Control Program - Suiveillance
Tatai U.S. DepaAment ot Justice
U.S. Department of Transportatlon
Passed Through Minnesota Deparanent of Trnnsportaaon
Highway Plannmg and Construciion
Pederai Highway AdmmisRation
Central Corridor Grant
Passed Through Minnesota Department of Public Safery
Highway Safety Ciuster
State and CommuniTy Highway Safety
Speed Lumt Enfircement Grant
Niyht Cap Grant
Alco6ol, 7raffic Safety, and Dnmk Driving Prevennon 3ncenCive
Gran[s - Safe a�d Sober
Total L1S. Departme.ot of Tranaportation
U.S. Equal Employmen[ Oppor[uuity Commission
Dvect Grant
Employ[nent Disoriminarion - State and I.ocal Faic Employment
Prdctices
Equal F�nployment Oppod�niry- EEOC
QfCice of Library Services, Ipsptute ot Moseum aud Gibrary
Services, Nafional Fowdatio� on the Arts and the Aumznifies
Passed Through Nunnesota DepartmenC of Education and the
Friends of the Library
Gants to S[ates
Inshtute of Maseum and Library
Passed Through the College of St Catherine
Laura Bush 21 s[ Ceumry Lbranan Proaram
Teachmg-Leaming Lbrazy
Total O[6ce of Library Suvices, InsNtute of Museum and
Library Services, National Foundation on the Arts and the
Humarutfes
Federal Passed
CPDA 7hrough to
N umber Ex pendiNres SubrecipienU
I6 738 104,227 __
$ 1,268 y 676 $
20205 3 1,824,894 �
20.500 145,?23
20 600
20.600
20 607
9,233
11,144
52,119 _ -
$ 2,�42,613 $ ___
3Q002 $ 51,089 $ _
45.310 5 2,745 $
45 3l3 65, 439
$ 68,184 $
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CITY OF SAII3T PAUL
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Schedule 2
{Continue�
SCELEDULE OF EXPENDI"PiiRES OF FEDERAi. AWARDS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECE7vI�ER 31, 2007
Federal Grantor Federal Passed
Pass-Through .Ageucy CPDA Through to
GrantProgramTitle Yumber Expeuditure ' Subrecipients
Corporatiou for National and Community Service
D�rect Grant
Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
AmeriCorps
U.S. Departmen[ otHomeland Security
Passed through Minnesota Departrnent ofPublic Safety
Urban Areas Secunty Initiahve
Homeland Security Grant ftogram
Law Enforcement'Certonsm Prevention Pmgrnm
State Homeland SecuriTy Grant Progrcm
Urban Aieas Secunry lnitiative
Urban Areas$ecunty Supplemental
Buffer Zone &oceccion Rogrnm
Homeland Securiry Part II Equipment
94 013
97.008
92067
97.067
97.067
97.067
97.078
5 _ 218,556 $ -
Total U.S. Department of Homeland SxuriTy
Total Federal Awards
Notes to Scheduie oFExcendiNres of Federal Awards
388,032 $
3I,085
48,A55
805,638
964,269
_ 165,343
$ 2,402, $ -
% 1�785�536 $ 4,b06,23A
L The Schedule of Expendrtures ofFederal Awards presents the acero�ty of Pedernl award proa ams expended by the Ciry of Saint Paul
It do� w[ include $1,565,113 (See Note 4 below) m federal awazds expended by the Housmg and Redevelopme�t Authonty (I3RA�
a componrnt un�t ofthe Ciry, which had a separate smgle aud�t The C�ry oFSaint Paul's repoRing entiry is defined m Note II to the
basm financial statementa
2. The expe�dim`es on this schedule are on the basis of accounhag usai by the indrvidual ffinds of the Ciry of Sa�nt Paul Govemmenial
funds use the modified accrual basis of accoanting. Rropnetary funds use the accrual basis
3 Pass-through grant numbers were �ot ass�gned by the pass-through agencies.
4 In the Ciry's Comprehansive Annual Finanmal Repor[, the Schedule oflntergovemmrntal Revenue All Funds (Schedule 36J mdicates
$19,133,987offederalrevenue. Thefederalawardsonthisschedu(eare$t7,851,536,adiffecenceof$1,282,451 Thefederal
intergwemmental revenue celated m fhe Federat Highway Adrmmstration gmnt (CFDA No. 2Q205) was $2,Q94,407, with related
expettditu�es of$1,824,894, adifference of $269,513. 1'he HRA Federnl and State Progrnms Fund had $961,192 offederal
intecgovemmental revenue, and the HRA Loan Enterynse Fund had $51,746 of fedecal iatergovemmeatal revenue. In ad&hon,
the HRA Parkmg Entecpnse Fund u czporting a capital conmbut�on of$552,175 �r the construcCion oFthe Wesi End Multi-Modal Hub
(Sm�th Avence Tran>it Ramp)
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