Southtowns Record

3/10/26 Board Packet ​

Government
Village of Gowanda
Board
Village Board
Meeting
Mar 10, 2026
Kind
Agenda packet
Topics
Budget and taxes, Audits and oversight, Water, sewer and drainage, Public safety, Parks and recreation, Zoning and land use, Roads and traffic, Housing

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In performing an  audit  in accordance  with  generally  accepted  auditing  standards  and  Government Auditing
 Standards, we:
  ¢  Exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit.  &
  ¢  Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or
  error, and design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks. Such procedures include
  examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
  ¢  Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are
  appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of
  the Village's internal control. Accordingly, no such opinion is expressed.
  *  Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting
  estimates made by management, as well as evaluate the overall presentation of the financial statements.
  ¢  Conclude whether, in our judgment, there are conditions or events, considered in the aggregate, that raise
  substantial doubt about the Village's ability to continue as a going concern for a reasonable period of time.
We are required to communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned
scope and timing of the audit, significant audit findings, and certain internal control-related matters that we identified
during the audit.
Required Supplementary Information
Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the management's discussion
and analysis and budgetary. comparison information as listed in the table of contents be presented to supplement
the basic financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and, although not a part
  of the
basic financial statements, is required by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board who considers it to
  be an
essential part of financial reporting for placing the basic financial statements in an appropriate operational,
economic, or historical context. We have applied certain limited procedures to the required supplementary
information in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America,
  which
consisted of inquiries of management about the methods of preparing the information and comparing the information
for consistency with management's responses to our inquiries, the basic financial statements, and other knowledge
we obtained during our audit of the basic financial statements. We do not express an opinion or provide any
assurance on the information because the limited procedures do not provide us with sufficient eviderice to express
an opinion or provide any assurance.  .
Supplementary information
Our audit was conducted for the purpose of forming opinions on the financial statements that collectively comprise
the Village's basic financial statements. The accompanying schedule of expenditures of federal awards, as required
by Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and
Audit Requirements for Federal Awards, is presented for purposes of additional analysis and are not a required part
of the basic financial statements. Such information is the responsibility of management and was derived from and
relates directly to the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements. The
information has been subjected to the auditing procedures applied in the audit of the basic financial statements and
certain additional procedures, including comparing and reconciling such 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, the schedule of expenditures of federal awards is fairly stated, in all material
respects, in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole.