INDEPENDENT AUDITOR'S REPORT ON COMPLIANCE FOR EACH MAJOR PROGRAM AND ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE REQUIRED BY OMB CIRCULAR A-133 AND NJ OMB CIRCULAR 04-04
Honorable Mayor and Members
of the Township Council
Township of Jackson
County of Ocean
Jackson, New Jersey
We have audited the Township of Jackson’s compliance with the types of compliance requirements described in the OMB Circular A-133 Compliance Supplement and the New Jersey Grants Compliance Supplement that could have a direct and material effect on each of the Authority’s major federal and state programs for the year ended December 31, 2014. The Township of Jackson’s major federal and state programs are identified in the summary of auditor’s results section of the accompanying schedule of findings and questioned costs.
Management is responsible for compliance with the requirements of laws, regulations, contracts, and grants applicable to its federal and state programs.
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on compliance for each of the Township of Jackson’s major federal and state programs based on our audit of the types of compliance requirements referred to above. We conducted our audit of compliance in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America; the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards, issued by the Comptroller General of the United States; and OMB Circular A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations and New Jersey OMB’s Circular 04-04, Single Audit Policy for Recipients of Federal Grants, State Grants and State Aid. Those standards, OMB Circular A-133 and New Jersey OMB’s Circular 04-04, require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether noncompliance with the types of compliance requirements referred to above that could have a direct and material effect on a major federal or state program occurred. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence about Township of Jackson’s compliance with those requirements and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances.
We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion on compliance for each major federal or state program. However, our audit does not provide a legal determination of the Township of Jackson's compliance with those requirements.
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