The Borough's vendor reports, printed 09/11/2026 for 01/01/2018 to 09/11/2026, show three school costs its own Municipal Alliance accounts carried before the settlement account took them over. Ramapo High School Project Graduation got 2,000.00 from the current-fund Municipal Alliance Expenses line for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 graduations, checks 10879 on 04/19/2023, 13783 on 05/22/2024 and 16074 on 03/05/2025. The same 2,000.00 for the 2026 graduation came from the settlement account, check 17852 on 11/07/2025. The Indian Hills Project Graduation donation was 1,000.00 from Municipal Alliance Expenses in 2023, check 10762 on 04/05/2023. The settlement account paid the IHHS PTSO 1,000.00 for Project Graduation, check 18283 on 12/31/2025. The Franklin Avenue Middle School Living Lessons day in 2022 drew 7,500.00 from Municipal Alliance accounts, checks 8458 and 1399 on 06/14/2022, and 2,500.00 from the Mayors Wellness Campaign trust. For the 2024 and 2026 events the Municipal Alliance paid the school nothing. The settlement account paid 15,000.00 each time, checks 13603 on 05/08/2024 and 14703 on 09/18/2024 for 2024 and check 18965 on 04/08/2026 for 2026, while the Mayors Wellness trust kept paying 2,500.00. The FY2024 report certifies Living Lessons as a program funded and launched 05/15/2024 (p3). The FY2026 report certifies Project Graduation as a new program and says the spending was decided by the REACH Committee "which was currently the Municipal Alliance" (p2). The certified program figures, 9,800.00, 5,200.00, 3,000.00 and 15,000.00, equal the five settlement payments to the cent. Settlement money paid costs the Borough's own Municipal Alliance budget carried in the years before, and at Living Lessons it also paid 7,500.00 more per event. The produced records do not show the 2024 or 2025 Indian Hills donations or whether the Municipal Alliance appropriation changed.
Funding-source substitution
Paid 33,000.00 for school events the Alliance used to fund
$33,000.00
Amount in this finding
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Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 7 documents