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INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT ON THE INTERNAL CONTROL STRUCTURE USED IN ADMINISTERING FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS �I To the Board of Selectmen Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts We have audited the general purpose financial statements of the Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts as of and for the year ended June 30, 1995 and have issued our report thereon dated January 19, 1996. We have also audited the Town of Mashpee's compliance with requirements applicable to major federal financial assistance programs and have issued our report thereon dated January 19, 1996. We conducted our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States; and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-128, "Audits of State and Local Governments." Those standards and OMB Circular A-128 require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the general purpose financial statements are free of material misstatement and about whether the Town of Mashpee complied with laws and regulations, non- compliance with which would be material to a major federal financial assistance program. In planning and performing our audit for the year ended June 30, 1995, we con- sidered the Town's internal control structure in order to determine our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the Town's general pur- pose financial statements and not to provide assurance on the internal control structure. This report addresses our consideration of internal control structure policies and procedures relevant to compliance with requirements applicable to federal financial assistance programs. We have addressed policies and pro- cedures relevant to our audit of the general purpose financial statements in a separate report dated January 19, 1996. The management of the Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts is responsible for estab- lishing and maintaining internal control structure. In fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to assess the expected benefits and related costs of internal control structure policies and procedures. The objectives of an internal control structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from unauthorized use or disposition, that transactions are executed in accordance with management's authorization and recorded properly to permit the preparation of general purpose financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that federal financial assistance programs are managed 24