Wyckoff Township
Wyckoff Township sent the County of Bergen 16,097.36 of its opioid settlement money under a resolution covering received and future funds, then kept the 45,140.25 that arrived after, and has spent none of it.
Published 10/03/2026
TLDR
- Wyckoff Township has received 61,237.61 of opioid settlement money through 05/04/2026.
- On 12/05/2023 the Township Committee directed that received and future settlement money go to the County of Bergen.
- One check went to the County, 16,097.36 on 05/21/2024. It equals every receipt through 11/10/2023 and nothing after.
- The 45,140.25 received since then is still with the Township. Nothing has been spent on any program.
- Two reports to the State gave the goal as sending the money to the county. The third says the Township is still assessing.
- The FY2024 report put 28,506.56 on hand. Its own figures leave 21,260.00. The extra 7,246.56 arrived on 07/31/2024, after the year closed.
- The FY2025 report claims 0.54 more received than the Township's own receipts schedule.
Every report says nothing was spent, and the books agree. The resolution and the books do not match each other.
Summary
Wyckoff Township, Bergen County, receives a direct share of the national opioid settlements. The settlements list uses for the money, among them treatment, recovery, connection to care, prevention and harm reduction. The list is not exhaustive. Other documented, evidence-based programs that address the epidemic also qualify. A municipality may also transfer its share to its county.
The Township's receipts schedule lists 31 settlement receipts from 08/16/2022 to 05/04/2026, 61,237.61 in all. The FY2026 report gives 61,811.73 received through 06/30/2026.
The settlement money is appropriated each year to a budget line named National Opioid Settlement Fund. The Township produced the 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 lines. One payment has ever left them.
| Date | Purchase order | Check | Payee | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/21/2024 | 24-00720 | 92583 | County of Bergen | 16,097.36 |
The 2023 line was adopted at 6,096.00 and spent nothing. The 2025 line was set up at 31,280.00 and spent nothing. The 2026 line holds 44,188.00 after a 12,908.00 budget transfer on 05/08/2026, and had spent nothing by 05/28/2026.
This project classes the 16,097.36 as a transfer to the county. No dollar of the Township's money is classed conforming, non-conforming or unverified, because the Township has spent none of it. Read the Township's findings.
The resolution
Resolution 23-296 was adopted 12/05/2023. It directs the Chief Financial Officer to transfer received and future settlement funds to the County of Bergen.
The check of 05/21/2024 cites the resolution. Its 16,097.36 is the 2022 receipts, 6,096.23, plus the 2023 receipts, 10,001.13. By that day the Township had received 34,131.48. Seven receipts of 05/06/2024 were already in hand and were not sent.
No second transfer appears. The 23 receipts from 05/06/2024 to 05/04/2026 total 45,140.25. All of it stayed with the Township. The record does not say why. Kept 45,140.25 its resolution directed to the county.
The County of Bergen recorded the 16,097.36 as received on 05/30/2024. Its own records show the money journaled out of its settlement grant account on 06/14/2024. They do not name the account it went to. Read the County's report.
What Wyckoff told the State
Each town with a direct share files an annual report with the Department of Human Services. The State's fiscal year runs 07/01 to 06/30.
| Report | Received in year | Transferred to county | Expended | On hand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 12,473.92 to date | none | 0 | not asked |
| FY2024 | 24,883.44 | 16,097.36 | 0.00 | 28,506.56 |
| FY2025 | 14,575.38 | 16,097.36 | 0.00 | 35,835.38 |
| FY2026 | 9,878.99 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 45,713.83 |
No report lists a funded program.
The FY2024 and FY2025 reports give the Township's goal as transferring settlement funds to the county, where they would be used in a remediation, rehabilitation and education program. After FY2024 no money was transferred. The FY2026 report gives the goal as continuing to assess the best way to use the funds. It names the Township Committee, the Administrator and the Chief Financial Officer as the officials deciding.
What the records show
On spending, the reports tie to the books. On receipts and balances, two do not.
- FY2023 received, 12,473.92, equals the six receipts on the schedule through 06/16/2023.
- FY2024 received, 24,883.44, equals the eleven receipts from 08/02/2023 to 06/25/2024.
- FY2025 received, 14,575.38, is 0.54 above the eight receipts on the schedule, 14,574.84. The schedule prints the same 14,574.84 for that year. The FY2025 report's 51,932.74 received since 2022 carries the same 0.54, and the FY2026 report builds on it. FY2025 report claims 0.54 more received than its books.
- FY2026 received, 9,878.99, is 573.58 above the six receipts on the schedule through 05/04/2026. The schedule was printed 05/28/2026, before the year closed.
- Every report certifies nothing expended, and the books show nothing expended in any year.
- The FY2024 report states the 16,097.36 county payment as a transfer, not as spending.
The FY2024 report gives 37,357.36 received, 16,097.36 transferred and 0.00 spent. That leaves 21,260.00. The same page gives 28,506.56 on hand. On 06/30/2024 the schedule shows 21,260.00. The difference is four receipts of 07/31/2024, 3,910.76, 1,002.14, 1,179.36 and 1,154.30, which total 7,246.56. Those receipts fall in FY2025, and the FY2025 report counts them again as FY2025 money. Reported 7,246.56 more on hand than its own figures allow.