McClanahan and Holmes, LLP
<br />CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
<br />R. E. BOSTWICK, CPA
<br />228 SIXTH STREET S.E.
<br />STEVEN W. MOHUNDRO, CPA
<br />PARIS, TEXAS 75460
<br />GEORGE H. STRUVE, CPA
<br />903-784-4316
<br />ANDREW B. REICH, CPA
<br />FAX 903-784-4310
<br />RUSSELL P. WOOD, CPA
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<br />DEBRA J. WILDER, CPA
<br />304 WEST CHESTNUT
<br />DENISON, TEXAS 75020
<br />903-465-6070
<br />FAX 903-465-6093
<br />1400 WEST RUSSELL
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<br />Honorable Mayor and City Council
<br />City of Paris, Texas
<br />We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the
<br />discretely presented component unit, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information including the
<br />budgetary comparison of the City of Paris, Texas, as of and for the year ended September 30, 2011, which collectively
<br />comprise the City's financial statements as listed in the table of contents. These financial statements are the
<br />responsibility of the City of Paris, Texas' management. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial
<br />statements based on our audit.
<br />We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and
<br />the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing, Standards, issued by the Comptroller
<br />General of the United States. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance
<br />about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis,
<br />evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the
<br />accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial
<br />statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.
<br />In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial
<br />position of the governmental activities, the business-type activities, the discretely presented component unit, each major
<br />fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information including the budgetary comparison of the City of Paris, Texas, as
<br />of September 30, 2011, and the respective changes in financial position and cash flows, where applicable, thereof for
<br />the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
<br />In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated March 29, 2012, on our
<br />consideration of the City of Paris, Texas' internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance
<br />with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, grants, agreements, and other matters. The purpose of that report
<br />is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control, our financial reporting, or on compliance. That report is an
<br />integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards and should be considered in
<br />assessing the results of our audit.
<br />Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the management's discussion and
<br />analysis and budgetary comparison information immediately following this report be presented to supplement the basic
<br />financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic financial statements, is required by the
<br />Governmental Accounting Standards Board, who considers it to be an essential part of financial reporting for placing
<br />the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational, economic, or historical context. We have applied certain
<br />limited procedures to the required supplementary information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted
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