Sarasota County Comprehensive Annual Financial Report 2019

Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) of the United States and Canada awarded a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to Sarasota County for its Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2018. In order to be awarded a Certificate of Achievement, a government unit must publish an easily readable and efficiently organized Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, whose contents conform to program standards. Such reports must satisfy both generally accepted accounting principles and applicable legal requirements. A Certificate of Achievement is valid for a period of one year only. We believe our current report continues to conform to the Certificate of Achievement Program requirements, and we are submitting to GFOA for review. 18