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Harris, Cotherman, Jones, Price & Associates Certified Public Accountants -Chartered 5070 North Highway A1A, Suite 250 Vero Beach, FL 32963 Tel 772-234.8484 Fax 772-234-8488 Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and on Compliance and Other Matters Based on an Audit of Financial Statements Performed in Accordance with Government Auditing Standards The Honorable Jeffery K. Barton Clerk of the Circuit Court Indian River County, Florida We have audited the financial statements of Indian River County, Florida, including the fund financial statements of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, as of and for the year ended September 30, 2011 and issued our report thereon dated March 9, 2012. We conducted our audit in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in Government Auditing Standards issued by the Comptroller General of the United States. Internal Control over Financial Reporting Management of the Clerk of the Circuit Court is responsible for establishing and maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting. In planning and performing our audit, we considered the Clerk of the Circuit Court's internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing our auditing procedures for the purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Clerk of the Circuit Court's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we do not express an opinion on the effectiveness of the Clerk of the Circuit Court's internal control over financial reporting. A deficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their assigned functions, to prevent, or detect and correct misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not be prevented or detected and corrected on a timely basis. Our consideration of internal control over financial reporting was for the limited purpose described in the first paragraph of this section and was not designed to identify all deficiencies in internal control that might be deficiencies, significant deficiencies or material weaknesses. We did not identify any deficiencies in internal control over financial reporting that we consider to be material weaknesses, as defined above. "Providing Vision and Dwection to our Chen&' :Member AICPA Member AICPA Division For CPA Firms Member F'ICPA Private Companies Practice Section 305