REPORT DIGEST

 

 

METROPOLITAN PIER AND EXPOSITION AUTHORITY

 

SPECIAL LIMITED SCOPE COMPLIANCE EXAMINATION

For the Two Years Ended:

June 30, 2007

 

 

 

Summary of Findings:

Total this engagement               0

Total last engagement               0

Repeated from last report         0

 

Release Date:

May 1, 2008

 

 

State of Illinois

Office of the Auditor General

WILLIAM G. HOLLAND

AUDITOR GENERAL

 

 

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INTRODUCTION

 

      The Illinois General Assembly makes direct appropriations annually to the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (Authority) from the McCormick Place Expansion Project Fund and the Metropolitan Fair and Exposition Authority Improvement Bond Fund for debt service expenditures.  Expenditures from these appropriations totaled $133,045,736 in Fiscal Year 2006 and $138,369,595 in Fiscal Year 2007.  Our special compliance testing was limited to these State appropriations and related payments.

 

     

FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

 

      There were no findings of noncompliance for this engagement.

 

 

AUDITORS’ OPINION

 

      We conducted a special limited scope compliance examination of appropriations made by the General Assembly to the Authority and related expenditures as authorized by the Illinois State Auditing Act. 

 

 

 

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WILLIAM G. HOLLAND, Auditor General

 

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AUDITORS ASSIGNED

 

      The examination was conducted by staff of the Office of the Auditor General.