INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANT’S REPORT ON
APPLYING AGREED UPON PROCEDURES FOR
COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROPOSITION 111
2023-2024 APPROPRIATION LIMIT INCREMENT
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
City of San Pablo, California
We have performed the procedures enumerated below on the Appropriations Limit Worksheet (Worksheet) of the City of San Pablo, California, for the year ended June 30, 2024. The City’s management is responsible for the Worksheet.
The City has agreed to and acknowledged that the procedures performed are appropriate to meet the intended purpose of these proced ures, which were suggested by the League of California Cities and presented in their Article XIIIB Ap propriations Limitation Uniform Guidelines, were performed solely to assist you in meeting the requirements of Section 1.5 of Article XIIIB of the California Constitution. 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 user s of this report and, as such, users are responsible for determining whether the procedures performed are appropriate for their purposes.
The procedures and associated findings were as follows:
A. We obtained the Worksheet (Exhibit A accompan ying the Resolution) and determined that the 2023-2024 limit of $56,152,121 was adopted by Reso lution of the City Council. We also determined that the population and inflation options were selected by a reco rded vote of the City Council.
B. We recomputed the 2023-2024
Appropriations Limit by multip lying the 2022-2023 Prior Year Appropriations Limit by the Total Growth Factor . We recomputed the Total Growth Factor by multiplying the population option by the inflation option.
C. For the Worksheet, we agreed the Per Capita In come Factor, City Population Factor and County Population Factor to California State Department of Finance Worksheets.
We were engaged by the City to perform this ag reed-upon procedures enga gement and conducted our engagement in accordance with atte station standards established by th e American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. We were not engaged to and di d not conduct an examination or review engagement, the objective of which would be the expression of an opinion or conclusion, respectively, on the Worksheet.
Accordingly, we do not express su ch 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 other ethical responsibilities, in accordance with the relevant ethical requirements related to our agreed-upon procedures engagement.
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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