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Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority Financial Statements and Management Letter STATE OF MINNESOTA Office of the State Auditor Rebecca Otto State Auditor DULUTH ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITY DULUTH, MINNESOTA YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2017 Description of the Office of the State Auditor The mission of the Office of the State Auditor is to oversee local government 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 government funds are used for the purposes intended by law and that local governments hold themselves to the highest standards of financial accountability. The State Auditor performs approximately 150 financial and compliance audits per year and has oversight responsibilities 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; Government 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 government law; as well as investigates allegations of misfeasance, malfeasance, and nonfeasance in local government; Pension - monitors investment, financial, and actuarial reporting for approximately 650 public pension funds; and Tax 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 Executive Council, State Board of Investment, 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 [email protected] 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. DULUTH ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITY DULUTH, MINNESOTA Year Ended December 31, 2017 Audit Practice Division Office of the State Auditor State of Minnesota This page was left blank intentionally. DULUTH ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITY DULUTH, MINNESOTA TABLE OF CONTENTS Exhibit Page Introductory Section Organization 1 Financial Section Independent Auditor’s Report 2 Management’s Discussion and Analysis 4 Basic Financial Statements Statement of Net Position 1 10 Statement of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position 2 12 Statement of Cash Flows 3 13 Notes to the Financial Statements 15 Required Supplementary Information Schedule of Funding Progress - Other Postemployment Benefits Plan A-1 37 PERA General Employees Retirement Plan Schedule of Proportionate Share of Net Pension Liability A-2 38 Schedule of Contributions A-3 39 Notes to the Required Supplementary Information - PERA 40 Management and Compliance Section 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 41 Schedule of Findings and Recommendations 44 Corrective Action Plan 47 This page was left blank intentionally. ,QWURGXFWRU\6HFWLRQ This page was left blank intentionally. DULUTH ENTERTAINMENT AND CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITY DULUTH, MINNESOTA ORGANIZATION DECEMBER 31, 2017 Term Expires Directors Mary Finnegan-Ongaro January 7, 2019 Gregory Fox January 7, 2019 Carrie Heffernan June 30, 2018 Debra Messer January 7, 2019 Don Ness June 30, 2019 Crystal Pelkey June 30, 2019 Karen Pionk June 30, 2019 Yvonne Prettner Solon January 7, 2019 Roger Reinert June 30, 2020 David Ross June 30, 2019 Jay Seiler June 30, 2018 Officers President Roger Reinert Vice President Don Ness Auditor Josh Bailey Indefinite Executive Director Rochelle Townsend Indefinite Page 1 This page was left blank intentionally. )LQDQFLDO6HFWLRQ This page was left blank intentionally. STATE OF MINNESOTA OFFICE OF THE STATE AUDITOR SUITE 500 (651) 296-2551 (Voice) 525 PARK STREET (651) 296-4755 (Fax) REBECCA OTTO SAINT PAUL, MN 55103-2139 [email protected] (E-mail) STATE AUDITOR 1-800-627-3529 (Relay Service) INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT Mayor and City Council City of Duluth, Minnesota Board of Directors Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority Duluth, Minnesota Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority, a component unit of the City of Duluth, Minnesota, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2017, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the Authority’s basic financial statements, as listed in the table of contents. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit 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. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the Authority’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion Page 2 An Equal Opportunity Employer on the effectiveness of the Authority’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority as of December 31, 2017, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Other Matters Required Supplementary Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the Management’s Discussion and Analysis and Required Supplementary Information as listed in the table of contents be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not part of the basic financial statements, is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, which consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with management’s responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated May 1, 2018, on our consideration of the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority’s internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on the effectiveness of the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center Authority’s internal control over financial reporting or on
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