Paid two jobs from the fund after federal grants ended

The City Manager's memo of 05/07/2025 says the two Health Department positions were grant funded and that the federal government cancelled the grants on 03/24/2025. It says the City committed to fund the positions from its temporary budget through 04/30/2025, when pay at the federal grant level ended. From 05/01/2025, at a salary of 60,000.00 each, their compensation is being charged to the Opioid Trust Fund. It directs that the job descriptions be amended to add an opioid education or investigation component and that each position run at least one opioid activity a month. It says the Health Department must budget for both positions if they continue after 03/31/2026. The ledger shows how the charge was made. Journal reference 627 of 11/06/2025 credited Health - Regular Pay 5-01-27-330-000-111 with 66,000.00 and 65,000.00 and charged them to the opioid account, described as 2025 Salary from Budget. The 2025 check register shows those figures are each employee's full 2025 regular pay, including 26,000.00 and 25,000.00 paid at the grant-level rate for 01/01/2025 to 04/30/2025. Journal reference 634 of 12/02/2025 moved 32,750.00 of it to the NJ ACCHO Grant account. A Health Department email of the same day calls those amounts January to March 2026 salary. The 98,250.00 left on the fund is 18,250.00 more than the 80,000.00 the two earned from 05/01/2025 to 12/31/2025. It is 84.3 percent of the 116,602.74 the account paid through 06/30/2026. No record of the monthly opioid activities was produced. The settlement fund now pays two positions that federal grants and the City budget paid before.