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Auditors deliver clean opinion on Twentynine Palms financial statements and single-audit of federal awards
Summary
Auditors reported an unmodified opinion on the city's annual comprehensive financial report and a clean single-audit for FY2023—24 covering about $2.1 million in federal awards; auditors said there were no internal-control deficiencies and no findings in sampled federal-award transactions.
The city's external auditors presented the Fiscal Year 2023—24 annual comprehensive financial report (ACFR) and the single-audit of federal awards to the Twentynine Palms City Council, reporting the highest level of assurance and no control deficiencies.
Brienne Schultz of Rogers Anderson Malady & Scott said the auditors issued an unmodified opinion on the city's financial statements, meaning the auditors found the statements to be free of material misstatement under generally accepted auditing standards. Schultz also described the audit process (interim testing of internal controls and year-end substantive testing) and noted an accounting presentation change related to a GASB pronouncement (presenting a ghost column for a fund reclassification), but no significant adjustments or corrected misstatements.
On the single-audit, staff and auditors said the city received roughly $2.1 million in federal funds in the audited period for projects including roads, COVID-relief and CDBG, and the auditors reported no findings for the sampled federal awards. Schultz said the city will submit the ACFR for GFOA recognition.
Council questions focused on the scope of the audit: one resident asked how many local 501(c)(3) organizations received city grants and the dollar totals; the auditor said she could not retrieve specific grant recipient lists during the presentation but would note the request for follow-up. Another question asked whether the auditors had conducted a forensic audit; the auditors clarified the engagement was a financial statement and single-audit engagement that provides reasonable—not absolute—assurance and is not a forensic audit (which would be much more costly).
The nut graf: Both the ACFR and the single-audit returned no material issues for council to act on. Council members thanked finance staff for "a clean audit," and no follow-up action was taken at the meeting beyond routine filing and staff follow-up on public questions about grant recipients.
Ending: Staff will finalize filings, respond to the public's data requests about grant recipients and continue with GFOA submission efforts.
