HomeMy WebLinkAboutMARCH 25, 2003SPECZAL MEETING - Iqarch 25, 2003
1'. ROLL CALL~ lrNVOCATZON & PLEDGE
The City Council of the City of Port Arthur met in Special Session on Tuesday, March 25,
2003 at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber, City Hall, with the following members
present: Mayor Pro Tern Tom Henderson; Councilmembers Craig Hannah, Felix A.
Barker, Tom Gillam, fTI., Rev. Ronnie Linden, Robert A. Bowers, and Michael "Shane"
Sinegal; City Manager Steve Fitzgibbons; Assistant City Secretary Terri Hanks and City
Attorney Mark T. Sokolow.
The invocation was given by Mayor Pro Tem Henderson followed by the pledge to the
flag.
PETITIONS & COMMUNICATIONS
A. Correspondence
Receipt Of Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For
The Year Ended September 30, 2002.
Finance Director Rebecca Underhill presented the Comprehensive Annual Financial
Report (CAFR) and announced that Mr. Gayle W. Botley, Gayle W. Botley 8, Associates,
will discuss the unqualified opinion at the next City Council meeting.
Councilmember Linden requested the following letter be added to the minutes as a part
of the official record:
UNQUALt'FZED OPt'Nt'ON ON FZNANCIAL STATEMENTS-
GOVERNMENTAL ENTt'TY
Independent AuditoCsReport
To the Honorable Mayor, Oscar Ortiz
And Members of the City Council
City of Port Arthur, Texas
We have audited the accompanying general-purpose financial statements
and the combining and individual fund and account group financial
statements of the City of Port Arthur, Texas ("the City"), as of and for the
year ended September 30, 2002, as listed in the table of contents. These
general-purpose financial statements are the responsibility of the City's
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these general-
purpose 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 Aud/t/ng 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 materia misstatement. An audit
includes examining, on 8 test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and
disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing
the accounting principles used and 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 opinion.
Tn our opinion, the general-purpose financial statements referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the City as
of September 30, 2002, and the results of its operations and the cash
flows of its proprietary fund types and nonexpendable trust funds for the
year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America.
In accordance with Government Aud/t/ng Standards, we have also issued
our report dated, March 17, 2003, on our consideration of the City's
internal control over financial reporting and our tests of its compliance
with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts and grants. That
report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with
Government Auditing Standards and should be read in conjunction with
this report in considering the results of our audit.
The other information listed in the table of contents under the statistical
section has not been audited by us and, accordingly, we express no
opinion on such information.
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the
general-purpose financial statements taken as a whole and on the
combining and individual fund and account group financial statements.
The accompanying financial information listed as supplemental schedules
in the table of contents is presented for purposes of additional analysis
and is not a required part of the general-purpose financial statements of
the City. Such information has been subjected to the auditing procedures
applied in the audit of the general-purpose, combining and individual fund
and account group financial statements and, in our opinion, is fairly
presented, in all material respects, in relation to the financial statements
of each of the respective individual funds and account groups taken as a
whole.
/s/Gayle W. Botley & Associates
Gayle W. Botley & Associates
Port Arthur, Texas
March 17, 2003
III. *CLOSED MEETING (EXECUTIVE SESSION)
Closed Meetina:
Section 551.087 Government Code - To Discuss Economic
Incentives As It Pertains To Healthcare And Commercial Projects.
The City Council recessed their meeting at 5:42 p.m. to meet in Executive Session to
consider the above-mentioned topic, and reconvened their meeting at 6:15 p.m. with
the following members present: Mayor Pro Tern Henderson; Councilmembers Hannah,
Barker, Gillam, Linden, Bowers and Sinegal; City Manager Fitzgibbons; Assistant City
Secretary Hanks and City Attorney Sokolow.
IX. AD3OURNMENT OF MEETING
Upon the motion of Councilmember Linden, seconded by Councilmember Bowers, and
carried unanimously, the City Council adjourned their meeting at 6:16 p.m.
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An audio tape of this meeting ~s ow file in the office of the City Secretary and is made a
part of the official minutes of this meeting.
MAYOR
AFl'EST:
CITY SECRETARY
END OF SPECIAL MEETING HELD March 25, 2003 APPROVED:
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