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INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS’ REPORT ON AGREED-UPON
PROCEDURES APPLIED TO APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT WORKSHEETS
To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
City of Riverside, California
We have performed the procedures enumerated below on the accomp anying Appropriations Limit Worksheet No. 6 (or other alternative computation) of the City of Riverside, California, (the City) for the year ended June 30, 2022. These procedures are the responsibility of the City, which were agreed to by the City and the League of California Cities (as presented in t he publication entitled Agreed-Upon Procedures Applied to the Appropriations Limitation Prescribed by Article XIII-B of the California Constitution), were performed solely to assist the City in meet ing the requirements of Section 1.5 of Article XIII-B of the California Constitution. The City's manag ement is responsible for the Appropriations Limit Worksheet No. 6 (or other alternative computation).
The City has agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet the intended purpose of recomputing th e Appropriations Limit Worksh eet No. 6 (or other alternative computation). 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 needs of all users of this report and, as such, users are responsible for determining whet her the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes.
The procedures performed and our findings were as follows:
1. We obtained the completed Worksheets No. 1 through No. 7 (or other alternative computations) and compared the limit and annual adjustment factors included in th ose worksheets to the limit and annual adjustment factors that were adopted by resolution of the City Council. We also compared the population and inflation options included in the aforementioned worksheets to those that were selected by a recorded vote of the City Council.
Finding: No exceptions were noted as a result of our procedures.
2. For the accompanying Appropri ations Limit Worksheet No. 6, we multiplied line C, last year's adjusted limit, by line F, ratio of change and compared the resulting amount to line G, this year's limit.
Finding: No exceptions were noted as a result of our procedures.
3. We compared the current year information presented in the ac companying Appropriations Limit Worksheet No. 6 to the other worksheets described in No. 1 above.
Finding: No exceptions were noted as a result of our procedures.
4. We compared the prior year appropriations limit presented in the accompanying Appropriations Limit Worksheet No. 6 to the prior year appropriations limit adopted by the City Council for the prior year.
Finding: No exceptions were noted as a result of our procedures.
To the Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
City of Riverside, California
5. For the adjustment to correct prior years cumulative inconsi stencies, we obtained the City’s worksheet for the recalculation of the Appropriations Limit fro m the base year using the annual per capita personal income factor and the annual City’s population minus exclusion changes and independently recomputed the Appropriation Limit for fiscal year 2020-21.
Finding: No exceptions were noted as a result of our procedures.
We were engaged by the City to perform this agreed-upon procedu res engagement and conducted our engagement in accordance with attestation standards established by the AICPA. We were not engaged to and did not conduct an examination or review engagement, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the ac companying Appropriations Limit Worksheet No. 6 (or other alternative computation). Accordingly , we do not express such an opinion or conclusion. Had 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 o ther ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement.
This report is intended solely for the information of the City Council and management of the City of Riverside and is not intended to be, and should not be, used by anyone other than these specified parties.
Brea, California
June 17, 2022
CITY OF RIVERSIDE
2021-2022
APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT CALCULATION
A. 2020-2021 APPROPRIATIO NS LIMIT: $ 359,469,181
B. ADJUSMENT TO CO RRECT PRIOR YEARS
CUMULATIVE INCONSISTE NCIES 4,434,091
C. ADJUSTED 2020-202 1 APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT 363,903,272
D. 2021-2022 PER CAPITA COST OF
LIVING CHANGE 5.73000000%
E. 2021-2022 CHANGE IN POPULATION: -1.17435141%
F. RATIO OF CHANGE (1.0573000000 X 0.9882564859): X 1.044883582 5
G. 2021-2022 APPROPRIATIO NS LIMIT: $ 380.236,655
($ 363,903,272 X 1.0448835825)