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The Honorable Mayor and City Council
City of Rancho Mirage, California
INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, each
major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Rancho Mirage,
California, as of and for the year ended June 30, 2008, which collectively comprise the City's
basic financial statements, as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the
responsibility of the City of Rancho Mirage's management. Our responsibility is to express
opinions on these financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United
States of Amenca and the standards applicable to financial audits contamed 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 of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test
basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also
includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management,
as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit
provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects,
the respective financial position of the governmental activities, each major fund, and the
aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Rancho Mirage, California, as of June 30,
2008, and the respective changes in financial position, of the City of Rancho Mirage, California
for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
States of America.
In accordance with Governmental Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated
December 22, 2008 on our consideration of the City of Rancho Mirage's internal control over
financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations,
contracts, 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 internal control over financial reporting or on
compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government
Auditing Standards and should be considered in assessing the results of our audit.
The infoimatnon identified in the accompanying table of contents as management's discussion
and analysis and required supplementary information are not a required part of the basic
financial statements, but are supplementary information required by accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States of America. We have applied certain limited procedures,
which consisted pnncipally of inquines of management regarding the methods of measurement
and presentation of the required supplementary information. However, we did not audit the
information and express no opinion on it.
The Honorable Mayor and City Council
City of Rancho Mirage, California
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Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that
collectively comprise the City of Rancho Mirage's basic financial statements. The introductory
section, combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements, schedules and statistical
tables are presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic
financial statements. The combining and individual nonmajor fund financial statements and
schedules have been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic
financial statements and, in our opinion, are fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the
basic financial statements taken as a whole The introductory section and statistical tables have
not been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial
statements and, accordingly, we express no opinion on them.
Irvine, California
December 22, 2008
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