Certified prosecutor staff pay as contract spending

The FY2026 report updates the Bergen County Central Municipal Diversion Court at 150,317.78 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, with 12 participants served (pp11 to 12). It explains the figure as completing spending the money from the contracts previously awarded, with no additional monies added. The report prints the same sentence on all six of its program updates. The books show two different things inside this one. Children's Aid and Family Services check 5003109 for 88,960.00 on 08/29/2025 pays contract 2300308, the diversion court contract the FY2024 and FY2025 reports said was encumbered. The other 61,357.78 is not a contract payment. Journal GJ 387 for 61,357.48 on 05/12/2026 and journal GJ 398 for 0.30 on 05/14/2026, described as MOVE PROS OPIOID OVERTIME, charged the fund's salary and wages chargeback line 02-213-43-130-368-012 and credited 02-260-05-000-018 Due to Current Fund. The Prosecutor's Office backup bills a paralegal and an assistant prosecutor for four quarters, 07/07/2024 to 10/05/2024 at 15,794.55, 10/06/2024 to 01/01/2025 at 13,857.97, 04/06/2025 to 06/29/2025 at 17,000.49 and 07/06/2025 to 09/28/2025 at 14,704.77. The weekly time sheets log the hours to the Central Municipal Diversion Program Arrest Initiative, Operation Helping Hand, the Overdose Fatality Review Team and other work. Exhibit E's categories name that kind of work. The check and the two journals make the certified figure to the cent. The report describes Prosecutor's Office payroll as contract spending. Three of the four quarters, 46,653.01, are staff time worked inside the FY2025 period and charged to the fund on 05/12/2026.