CITY OF ALAMEDA
INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT’S REPORT ON
APPLYING AGREED UPON PROCEDURES FOR
TESTING THE CITY’S COMPLIANCE WITH
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CITY’S
2021 INVESTMENT POLICY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2021
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INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT’S REPORT ON
APPLYING AGREED UPON PROCEDURES FOR
TESTING THE CITY’S COMPLIANCE WITH
CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE CITY’S
2021 INVESTMENT POLICY
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2021
Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Council
City of Alameda, California
We have performed the procedures enumerated below on testing the City of Alameda’s compliance with certain provisions of the City’s 2021 Investment Poli cy as of June 30, 2021. The City’s management is responsible for the City’s compliance with the City’s 2021 Investment Policy.
The City has agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet the intended purpose of testing the City’s compliance wi th certain provisions of th e City’s 2021 Investment Policy. This report may not be suitable for any other purpose. The procedures performed may not address all the items of interest to a user of this report and may not meet the ne eds of all users of this report and, as such, users are responsible for de termining whether the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes. In addition, the procedures below do not include testing compliance of the investments of Alameda Municipal Po wer, an Enterprise Fund and Depart ment of the City, which has its own separate Investment Policy
The procedures and associated findings are as follows:
1. We obtained and read the City’s 2021 Investment Policy adopted on May 19, 2020.
2. Section V. Internal Controls of the Investment Policy and Section VI. Investment Procedures and Delegation of Authority require the City to have a written “system of internal controls” related to the investment function. We obtained the written pro cedures, but we understand they were not written until November 2021.
The City should ensure it is in compliance with the provisions of the Investment Policy when adopted.
3. We tested the City’s compliance with the following provisions of the Investment Policy:
VI. Safekeeping and Custody
We obtained the June 30, 2021 US Bank third pa rty custodian statement and reconciled it to the June 2021 Quarterly Investment Report to determ ine that all securities included in the Quarterly Investment Report were held by the City’s thir d party custodian without exception. We noted that the only investments in the Quarterly Inve stment Report that were not included in the custodian statement were the Local Agency In vestment Fund (LAIF) account, Bank of Marin Certificate of Deposit account, and Beacon Business Bank Certificate of Deposit Account.
IX. Authorized Investments, Maximum Maturities and Investment Accounts
We tested the composition of the City’s June 2021 Monthly Investment Report for compliance with the types of securities held and the ma ximum holdings, maximum per issuer and maximum maturity limitations without exception.
We selected 14 investment purchase transactions from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 out of 127 total purchases for fiscal year 2021 and tested for the following without exception:
• Authorization
• Compliance with bid requirements, as applicable
• Investment rating at time of purchase to Moody’s or S&P and for compliance with Investment Policy minimum ratin g requirement, as applicable • Addition to the safekeeping statement in the month purchased • Addition to the Quarterly Investment Report in the quarter purchased
X. Due Diligence: Adding Investment Po ols/ Mutual Funds/ Money Market Funds
The City did not add any of the account types listed during the year ended June 30,2021. The City had two existing accounts at June 30,2021, theref ore, we selected one account (Local Agency Investment Fund (LAIF)) for testing of the last time the City obtained the information from the pool. The Investment Policy requires that 12 poi nts of information be obtained “on a regular basis”. City staff did obtain the information from the LAIF pool, but not until December 2021, which was after we had requested the documentation.
The City should develop procedures to obtain th e 12 points of information from all existing, and any new, Investment Pools/Mutual Funds/Money Ma rket Funds on a regular basis, in accordance with the requirements of the Investment Policy.
XII. Collateralization
The City did not have any time deposits in savings and loans at June 30,2021 and did not have non-negotiable certificates of deposit in exces s of $250,000 outstanding at June 30, 2021, therefore we did not select 10% of such invest ments to trace to collateralization documentation and test whether in compliance with the coll ateralization requirements of the California Government Code and the Investment Policy.
4. We did not test for compliance with the following provisions of the Investment Policy:
- I. Statement of Purpose and Adoption of Policy
- II. Scope
- III. Objectives and Performance Standards
- IV. Prudence and Risk Tolerance
- VII. Authorized Banks and Financial Securities Dealers and Institutions (the City contracts with an outside investment manager)
- XI. Diversification
- XIII. Ethics and Conflicts of Interest
- XIV. Investment Advisory Committee / Reporting Requirements - Attachment A. Glossary
We were engaged by the City to perform this ag reed-upon procedures enga gement and conducted out engagement in accordance with atte station standards established by th e American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. We were not engaged to and did not conduct an examination or review, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the City’s compliance with certain provisions of the City’s 2021 Investment Policy for the year ended June 30, 2021. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Ha d we performed additional procedures, other matters might have come to our attention that would have been reported to you.
We are required to be independent of the City and to meet our other ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement.
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This report is intended solely for the information a nd use of management and th e City Council and is not intended to be and should not be used by anyone other than those specified parties; however, this restriction is not intended to limit the distribution of this report, which is a matter of public record.
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