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1 ~ KPMG LLP i PO Box 4150 Honolulu, HI 96812-4150 +w r w Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an 'r Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards ~ To the Members of the County Council of Hawaii ~ County ofHawai`i Hilo, Hawaii: ~ We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii (the County), as of and for the year ended June 30, 2006, which collectively comprise the County's basic financial statements, and have issued our report thereon dated April 27, 2007. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Internal Control over Financial Reporting In planning and performing our audit, we considered the County's internal control over financial reporting in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinions on the financial " statements and not to provide an opinion on the internal control over financial reporting. Our consideration of the internal control over financial reporting would not necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control that might be material weaknesses. A material weakness is a reportable condition in which the design or operation of one or more of the intemal control components does not reduce to a relatively low ~ level the risk that misstatements caused by error or fraud in amounts that would be material in relation to the financial statements being audited may occur and not be detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. We noted no matters involving the intemal control over financial reporting and its operation that we consider [o be material weaknesses. Compliance and Other Matters i ~ As part of obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the County's basic financial statements aze free of material misstatement, we performed tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements, noncompliance with which could have a direct and material effect on the ~ determination of financial statement amounts. However, providing an opinion on compliance with those provisions was not an objective of our audit, and accordingly, we do not express such an opinion. The results of our tests disclosed no instances of noncompliance or other matters that are required to be reported under Government Auditing Standards. rr a 3 KPMG LLP, a U.S. Lmitetl liablllry partnereM1ip, is the U.S. .i/ member firm of KPMG International, a Swiss cooperaVVe.