2020 Monticello Auditor's Special Purpose ReportCITY OF MONTICELLO
WRIGHT COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Special Purpose Audit Reports
Year Ended
December 31, 2020
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CITY OF MONTICELLO
WRIGHT COUNTY, MINNESOTA
Special Purpose Audit Reports
Year Ended December 31, 2020
Table of Contents
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Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards
Independent Auditor's 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 2-3
Independent Auditor's Report on Compliance for Each Major Federal
Program; Report on Internal Control Over Compliance; and Report on the
Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards Required by the Uniform Guidance 4-6
Independent Auditor's Report on Minnesota Legal Compliance
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Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs 8-9
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CITY OF MONTICELLO
Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards
Year Ended December 31, 2020
Fhrough Grantor/Program Title
U.S. Depeartment of Treasury
Passed through the Minnesota Department of Management
and Budget
COVID-19 — Coronavirus Relief Fund
Pass -Through
Entity
Federal Identification Federal
CFDA No. Number Expenditures
21.019 STL0016 $ 1,038,338
Note 1: The Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards is prepared on the accrual basis of accounting. The information
in this schedule is presented in accordance with the OMB's Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost
Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards. Therefore, some amounts presented in this schedule may
differ from the amounts presented in, or used in the preparation of, the City's basic financial statements.
Note 2: Unless noted in the table above, the pass-through entities use the same CFDA numbers as the federal grantors to
identify these grants, and have not assigned any additional identifying numbers.
Note 3: The City did not elect to use the 10 percent de minimis indirect cost rate.
Note 4: Unaudited Disclosure — The City received donated personal protective equipment (PPE) with an estimated value of
less than $1,000. The City was unable to determine whether federal dollars were used to purchase the donated PPE.
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S 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
To the City Council and Management
City of Monticello, Minnesota
We have audited, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of
America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards,
issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental
activities, the business -type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund infonnation of
the City of Monticello, Minnesota (the City) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the
related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements,
and have issued our report thereon dated May 14, 2021.
INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements, we considered the City's internal control
over financial reporting (internal control) as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in
the circumstances 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. Accordingly, we do
not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's internal control.
A deficiency in internal control 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 and correct, misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination.
of deficiencies, in internal control, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement
of the City's financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected, on a timely basis. A
significant deficiency is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control that is less
severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with
governance.
Our consideration of internal control was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph of this
section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control that might be material
weaknesses or significant deficiencies. Given these limitations, during our audit we did not identify any
deficiencies in internal control that we consider to be material weaknesses. However, material weaknesses
may exist that have not been identified.
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COMPLIANCE AND OTHER MATTERS
As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the City's financial statements are free from
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
financial statements. However, providing an opinion on compliance with those provisions was not an
objective of our audit and, accordingly, 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 Auditing Standards.
PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT
The purpose of this report is solely to describe the scope of our testing of internal control and compliance
and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the effectiveness of the City's internal
control or on compliance. This report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with
Government Auditing Standards in considering the City's internal control and compliance. Accordingly,
this report is not suitable for any other purpose.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 14, 2021
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON COMPLIANCE FOR
EACH MAJOR FEDERAL PROGRAM; REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL
OVER COMPLIANCE; AND REPORT ON THE SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES
OF FEDERAL AWARDS REOUIRED BY THE UNIFORM GUIDANCE
To the City Council and Management
City of Monticello, Minnesota
REPORT ON COMPLIANCE FOR EACH MAJOR FEDERAL PROGRAM
We have audited the City of Monticello, Minnesota's (the City) compliance with the types of compliance
requirements described in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Compliance Supplement that could
have a direct and material effect on each of the City's major federal programs for the year ended
December 31, 2020. The City's major federal programs are identified in the Summary of Audit Results
section of the accompanying Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs.
MANAGEMENT'S RESPONSIBILITY
Management is responsible for compliance with federal statutes, regulations, and the terms and conditions
of its federal awards applicable to its federal programs.
AUDITOR'S RESPONSIBILITY
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on compliance for each of the City's major federal programs
based on our audit of the types of compliance requirements referred to above. 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 the audit requirements of Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal
Regulations Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for
Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance). Those standards and the Uniform Guidance 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 occurred. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence about the City's compliance
with those requirements and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the
circumstances.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion on compliance for each major
federal program. However, our audit does not provide a legal determination of the City's compliance.
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OPINION ON EACH MAJOR FEDERAL PROGRAM
In our opinion, the City complied, in all material respects, with the types of compliance requirements
referred to on the previous page that could have a direct and material effect on each of its major federal
programs for the year ended December 31, 2020.
REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE
Management of the City is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over
compliance with the types of compliance requirements referred to on the previous page. In planning and
performing our audit of compliance, we considered the City's internal control over compliance with the
types of requirements that could have a direct and material effect on each major federal program to
determine the auditing procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances for the purpose of expressing
an opinion on compliance for each major federal program, and to test and report on internal control over
compliance in accordance with the Uniform Guidance, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
on the effectiveness of internal control over compliance. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on
the effectiveness of the City's internal control over compliance.
A deficiency in internal control over compliance exists when the design or operation of a control over
compliance does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned
functions, to prevent, or detect and correct, noncompliance with a type of compliance requirement of a
federal program on a timely basis. A material weakness in internal control over compliance is a
deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over compliance, such that there is a
reasonable possibility that material noncompliance with a type of compliance requirement of a federal
program will not be prevented, or detected and corrected, on a timely basis. A significant deficiency in
internal control over compliance is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over
compliance with a type of compliance requirement of a federal program that is less severe than a material
weakness in internal control over compliance, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged
with governance.
Our consideration of internal control over compliance was for the limited purpose described in the
first paragraph of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control over
compliance that might be material weaknesses or significant deficiencies. We did not identify any
deficiencies in internal control over compliance that we consider to be material weaknesses. However,
material weaknesses may exist that have not been identified.
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The purpose of this report on internal control over compliance is solely to describe the scope of our
testing of internal control over compliance and the results of that testing based on the requirements of the
Uniform Guidance. Accordingly, this report is not suitable for any other purpose.
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REPORT ON SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES OF FEDERAL AWARDS REQUIRED BY THE UNIFORM
GUIDANCE
We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business -type activities, each
major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City as of and for the year ended
December 31, 2020, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the
City's basic financial statements. We issued our report thereon dated May 14, 2021, which contained
unmodified opinions on those financial statements. Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming
opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise the basic financial statements. The
accompanying Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards is presented for purposes of additional
analysis as required by the Uniform Guidance and is not a required part of the basic financial statements.
Such information is the responsibility of management and was derived from and relates directly to the
underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements. The information
has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the financial statements and certain
additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such information directly to the underlying
accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements or to the basic financial
statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally
accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards
is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 14, 2021
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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT
ON MINNESOTA LEGAL COMPLIANCE
To the City Council and Management
City of Monticello, Minnesota
We have audited, in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of
America, and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards,
issued by the Comptroller General of the United States, the financial statements of the governmental
activities, the business -type activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of
the City of Monticello, Minnesota (the City) as of and for the year ended December 31, 2020, and the
related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the City's basic financial statements,
and have issued our report thereon dated May 14, 2021.
MINNESOTA LEGAL COMPLIANCE
In connection with our audit, nothing came to our attention that caused us to believe that the City failed to
comply with the provisions of the contracting and bidding, deposits and investments, conflicts of interest,
public indebtedness, claims and disbursements, miscellaneous provisions, and tax increment financing
sections of the Minnesota Legal Compliance Audit Guide for Cities, promulgated by the State Auditor
pursuant to Minnesota Statutes § 6.65, insofar as they relate to accounting matters. However, our audit
was not directed primarily toward obtaining knowledge of such noncompliance. Accordingly, had we
performed additional procedures, other matters may have come to our attention regarding the City's
noncompliance with the above referenced provisions, insofar as they relate to accounting matters.
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The purpose of this report is solely to describe the scope of our testing of compliance and the results of
that testing, and not to provide an opinion on compliance. Accordingly, this report is not suitable for any
other purpose.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 14, 2021
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CITY OF MONTICELLO
Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs
December 31, 2020
A. SUMMARY OF AUDIT RESULTS
This summary is formatted to provide federal granting agencies and pass-through agencies answers to
specific questions regarding the audit of federal awards.
Financial Statements
What type of auditor's report is issued? X Unmodified
Qualified
Adverse
Disclaimer
Internal control over financial reporting:
Material weakness(es) identified?
Yes
X
No
Significant deficiency(ies) identified?
Yes
X
None reported
Noncompliance material to the financial statements noted?
Yes
X
No
Federal Awards
Internal controls over major federal award programs:
Material weakness(es) identified?
Yes
X
No
Significant deficiency(ies) identified?
Yes
X
None reported
Type of auditor's report issued on compliance for major programs?
U.S. Department of Treasury — COVID-19 — Coronavirus Relief Fund
Unmodified
Any audit findings disclosed that are required to be reported
in accordance with 2 CFR 200.516(a)?
Yes
X
No
Programs tested as major programs:
Program or Cluster
CFDA No.
U.S. Department of Treasury — COVID-19 — Coronavirus Relief Fund
21.019
Threshold for distinguishing between type A and B programs:
$ 750,000
Does the auditee qualify as a low-risk auditee?
Yes
X
No
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Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs (continued)
December 31, 2020
B. FINANCIAL STATEMENT FINDINGS
None.
C. FEDERAL AWARD FINDINGS AND QUESTIONED COSTS
None.
D. MINNESOTA LEGAL COMPLIANCE FINDINGS
None.