VIA Metropolitan Transit San Antonio, Texas Financial Statements and Independent Auditor’s Report September 30, 2015 and 2014 VIA Metropolitan Transit San Antonio, Texas Table of Contents Page Independent Auditor’s Report 3 Management’s Discussion and Analysis 9 Basic Financial Statements Statements of Net Position 24 Statements of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position 27 Statements of Cash Flows 28 Notes to the Financial Statements 31 Required Supplementary Information Schedule of Changes in Net Pension Liability – Unaudited 72 Schedule of VIA’s Pension Contribution – Unaudited 73 Schedule of Funding Progress – Unaudited 74 Notes to the Required Supplementary Information – Unaudited 75 Other Supplementary Information Combining Schedule of Net Position 78 Combining Schedule of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position 81 Combining Schedule of Cash Flows 82 Schedule of Revenues, Expenses, and Changes in Net Position – Budget (GAAP Basis) and Actual 84 Schedule of Operating Expenses by Expense Category and Cost Center 86 Page 1 Page Single Audit Section Independent Auditor’s 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 93 Independent Auditor’s Report on Compliance for Each Major Federal Program and Report on Internal Control Over Compliance as Required by OMB Circular A‐133 95 Schedule of Findings and Questioned Costs 97 Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards 98 Notes to the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards 102 Page 2 Independent Auditor’s Report To the Board of Trustees VIA Metropolitan Transit San Antonio, Texas Report on the Financial Statements We have audited the accompanying financial statements of the business‐type activities of VIA Metropolitan Transit (“VIA”) as of and for the years ended September 30, 2015 and 2014, and the related notes to the financial statements, which collectively comprise VIA’s basic financial statements, as listed in the table of contents. Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error. Auditor’s Responsibility Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits 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. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement. An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to VIA’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements 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 VIA’s internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. AUSTIN HOUSTON SAN ANTONIO 811 BARTON SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 550 1980 POST OAK BOULEVARD, SUITE 1100 100 N.E. LOOP 410, SUITE 1100 TOLL FREE: 800 879 4966 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78704 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77056 SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78216 WEB: PADGETT‐CPA.COM 512 476 0717 713‐335 8630 210 828 6281 We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion. Opinion In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the respective financial position of the business‐type activities of VIA as of September 30, 2015 and 2014, and the respective changes in financial position and cash flows thereof for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Emphasis of a Matter As described in Note 1, VIA was required to adopt Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) Statement No. 68, Accounting and Financial Reporting for Pensions – An Amendment of GASB Statement No. 27. As discussed in Note 15, beginning net position has been restated for the adoption of GASB Statement No. 68. Our opinion is not modified with respect to this matter. Other Matters Required Supplementary Information Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America require that the Management’s Discussion and Analysis, the Schedule of Changes in Net Pension Liability – Unaudited, the Schedule of VIA’s Pension Contributions – Unaudited, the Schedule of Funding Progress – Unaudited, and Notes to the Required Supplementary Information – Unaudited, as listed in the table of contents, be presented to supplement the basic financial statements. Such information, although not a part of the basic financial statements, is required by GASB, 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 evidence to express an opinion or provide any assurance. Other Information Our audits were conducted for the purpose of forming an opinion on the financial statements that collectively comprise VIA’s basic financial statements. The Other Supplementary Information, as listed in the table of contents, is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is not a required part of the financial statements. The Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards, as required by the Office of Management and Budget Circular A‐133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non‐Profit Organizations (“Circular A‐133”), is presented for purposes of additional analysis and is also not a required part of the financial statements. Page 4 The Other Supplementary Information and the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards are the responsibility of management and were derived from, and relate directly to, the underlying accounting and other records used to prepare the basic financial statements. Such 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 Other Supplementary Information and the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards are fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the basic financial statements as a whole. Other Reporting Required by Government Auditing Standards In accordance with Government Auditing Standards, we have also issued our report dated February 23, 2016 on our consideration of VIA’s internal control over financial reporting and on our tests of its compliance with certain provisions of laws, regulations, contracts, and grant agreements and other matters. The purpose of that report is to describe the scope of our testing of internal control over financial reporting and compliance and the results of that testing, and not to provide an opinion on internal control over financial reporting or on compliance. That report is an integral part of an audit performed in accordance with Government Auditing Standards in considering VIA’s internal control over financial reporting and compliance. San Antonio, Texas February 23, 2016 Page 5 (This page intentionally left blank.) Page 6 Management’s Discussion and Analysis (This page intentionally left blank.) Page 8 VIA Metropolitan Transit San Antonio, Texas Management’s Discussion and Analysis September 30, 2015 The following Management’s Discussion and Analysis of VIA Metropolitan Transit’s (“VIA”) activities and financial performance are provided as an introduction to the financial statements for the fiscal year (“FY”) ending September 30, 2015. Readers are encouraged to consider the information presented here in conjunction with information contained in the financial statements that follow this section. Financial Highlights Operating revenues are $24.7M in 2015, down $1.6M from the prior year. This result was primarily driven by lower bus line fare revenues resulting from lower ridership. Ridership was adversely impacted by a significant decrease in gas prices (down 28% on average). Net non‐operating revenues (expenses) are $191.9M in 2015, up $8.3M from the prior year. This result is primarily attributable to sales taxes, which were up $6.6M (net after adjusting for amounts paid to the City of San Antonio and Bexar County) due to a stronger economy. VIA’s sales tax revenue, which is the largest component of non‐operating revenue, came in at $167.0M in 2015, up $6.6M from the prior year (total sales taxes were $197.6M in 2015, of which $30.6M was for ATD entities other than VIA). ATD sales taxes returned to the community through the City of San Antonio (“CoSA”), the Texas Department of Transportation (“TxDOT”), and Bexar County are used for street improvements and to complete highway projects in the local area more quickly. As of September 2015, Bexar County has four approved projects that use ATD funds for financing under a “pass‐through” financing arrangement with TxDOT. In addition, ATD funds have been used by Bexar County and TxDOT to accelerate highway projects on Loop 1604 and U.S. 281. Operating expenses including depreciation are $235.0M in 2015, an increase of $16.9M (7.7%) compared to the prior year. The increase is primarily attributable to wages, up $7.9M, and VIAcare (healthcare) expense, up $6.4M. A 3.5% wage increase accounted for $3.3M of the total increase in wages. The remainder of the increase in wages is mainly due to an increase in bus service hours and an operator mix shift (more full‐time operators relative to part‐time operators). VIAcare expense was up due to a spike in claims early in the fiscal year around the date that a new contract was to become effective. The new contract was put in place to help contain health care costs, and expenses have since trended downwards. VIA booked an additional $4.9M to its streetcar allowance account in FY15, to appropriately reflect on VIA’s financial statements the streetcar project expense that may not ultimately pertain to the final construction project (see Note 16 for additional details). Page 9
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