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0 Loi I I LLP CAsR"ooaoPueooACCOUNTANTS Report of Independent Auditors To the Chair and Members of the County Council County ofHawaii We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major fund. andtheaggregateremainingfund information of the County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii (the"County") as of and for the year ended June 30, 2011. which collectively comprise the County's basic financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the responsibility of County's management. Our responsibility isto express opinions on these financial statements based on our audit. 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. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and the significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions. 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 unit, each major fund. andtheaggregateremainingfundinformationoftheCounty as of June 30, 2011, and the respective changes in financial position and, where applicable, cash flows thereof and the budgetary comparison for the general fund for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ofAmerica. In accordance with Government Auditing 8bendands, we have also issued our report dated December 27, 2011, on our consideration of the County's internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regu|ations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on internal control over financial reporting oroncompliance. That report isan integral part ofan audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and should be considered in assessing the results of our audit. The accompanying management's discussion and analysis on pages 13 through 23 and schedule of funding progress for the EUTF on page 87 are not a required part of the basic financial statements but are supplementary information required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. We have applied certain limited procedures, which consisted principally of inquiries of management regarding the methods of measurement and presentation of the required supplementary information. However, vvedid not audit the information and express no opinion on it. 999Bzmmmp S,,REET,SUITE 1900 HONOLULU,H/mTAxx968I3 lt,LEP11mNE:808 53I3488FA("]mvM'vE:808 53I3433