Lorain County

Lorain County

Comprehensive AnnualFinancial Report

For The Year Ended December 31, 2012

J. Craig Snodgrass, CPA, CGFM Lorain County Auditor

Introductory Section

Introductory Section

Lorain County AuditorJ. Craig Snodgrass, CPA, CGFM

Lorain County AuditorRETIRED

Mark R. Stewart

Comprehensive AnnualFinancial ReportFor the Year Ended December 31, 2012

Lorain CountyOhio

J. Craig Snodgrass, CPA, CGFMLorain County Auditor

Prepared by:

Lillian C. BrandComptroller

Barry J. HabonyAssistant Comptroller

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OFFICE OF THE AUDITORLORAIN COUNTY, OHIO

LORAIN COUNTY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING • 226 MIDDLE AVE., ELYRIA, OHIO 44035 • (440) 329-5207 • FAX (440) 329-5223WEB SITE www.loraincounty.com/auditor • E-MAIL auditor@loraincounty.com

J. CRAIG SNODGRASS, CPA, CGFMAuditor

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Lorain County, OhioElected Officials

As of December 31, 2012

Board of Commissioners Ted Kalo

Lori Kokoski Tom Williams

County Auditor Mark R. Stewart

Retired 12/31/12

J. Craig Snodgrass, CPA, CGFM Appointed 1/1/13

County Treasurer Daniel J. Talarek

Prosecuting Attorney Dennis P. Will

Clerk of Courts Ron Nabakowski

Coroner Dr. Stephen Evans

Sheriff Phil R. Stammitti

Engineer Kenneth P. Carney

County Recorder Judy Nedwick

Common Please Court Judges Edward M. Zaleski

Retired 12/31/12

John R. Miraldi Term Commencing 1/2/13

James Burge

Raymond Ewers

Mark Betleski

Christopher Rothgery

James Miraldi

Probate Court Judge James T. Walther

Domestic Relations Judges David A. Basinski

Retired 1/3/13

Frank Janik Term Commencing 1/4/13

David J. Berta Term Ended 1/2/13

Lisa I. Swenski Term Commencing 1/3/13

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Financial Section

Financial Section

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www.ohioauditor.gov

INDEPENDENT AUDITORʼS REPORT

Lorain County 226 Middle Avenue Elyria, Ohio 44035

To the Board of County Commissioners:

Report on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the aggregate discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of Lorain County, Ohio (the County), as of and for the year ended December 31, 2012, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise the Countyʼs basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents.

Managementʼs Responsibility for the Financial Statements

Management is responsible for preparing and fairly presenting these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes designing, implementing, and maintaining internal control relevant to preparing and fairly presenting financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

Auditor's Responsibility

Our responsibility is to opine on these financial statements based on our audit. We did not audit the financial statements of the Murray Ridge Production Center, Inc. Those statements were audited by other auditors whose report has been furnished to us, and our opinion, insofar as it relates to the amount included for the Murray Ridge Production Center, Inc., is based solely on the report of other auditors. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the financial audit standards in the Comptroller General of the United Statesʼ Government Auditing Standards. Those standards require us to plan and perform the audit to reasonably assure the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit requires procedures to obtain audit evidence about financial statement amounts and disclosures. The procedures selected depend on our judgment, including assessing the risks of material financial statement misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. In assessing those risks, we consider internal control relevant to the County's preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not to the extent needed to opine on the effectiveness of the County's internal control. Accordingly, we express no opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of managementʼs accounting policies and the reasonableness of their significant accounting estimates, as well as our evaluation of the overall financial statement presentation.

We believe the audit evidence we obtained is sufficient and appropriate to support our audit opinions.

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Opinion

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the discretely presented component units, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of Lorain County, Ohio, as of December 31, 2012, and the respective changes in financial position and where applicable, cash flows, thereof and the respective budgetary comparisons for the General Fund, the Job and Family Services Fund, the Children Services Fund, the Community Mental Health Fund and the Lorain County Board of Developmental Disabilities Fund, thereof for the year then ended in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Other Matters

Required Supplementary Information

Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require this presentation to include Managementʼs discussion and analysis, as listed in the table of contents, to supplement the basic financial statements. Although this information is not part of the basic financial statements, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board considers it essential for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America, consisting of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information for consistency with managementʼs responses to our inquiries, to the basic financial statements, and other knowledge we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not opine or provide any assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient evidence to opine or provide any other assurance.

Supplementary and Other Information

Our audit was conducted to opine on the Countyʼs basic financial statements taken as a whole. The introductory section, the financial sectionʼs combining statements, individual fund statements and schedules, and the statistical section information present additional analysis and are not a required part of the basic financial statements.

The financial sectionʼs combining statements, individual fund statements and schedules are managementʼs responsibility, and were derived from and relate directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements. We subjected these statements andschedules to the auditing procedures we applied to the basic financial statements. We also applied certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling this information directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements or to the basic financial statements themselves, and other additional procedures in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. In our opinion, this information is fairly stated in all material respects in relation to the basic financial statements taken as a whole.

We did not subject the introductory section and statistical section information to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and, accordingly, we express no opinion or any other assurance on them.

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Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards

In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated June 25, 2013, on our consideration of the Countyʼs internal control over financial reporting and our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grant agreements and other matters. That report describes the scope of our internal control testing over financial reporting and compliance, and the results of that testing, and does not opine on internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering the Countyʼs internal control over financial reporting and compliance.

Dave Yost Auditor of State

Columbus, Ohio

June 25, 2013

Statistical Section

Statistical Section