Program misclassification

Certified a Dave and Buster's night as officer training

$6,569.93

Amount in this finding

DGrade D · provisionalHasbrouck Heights

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/04/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2025 and FY2026 reports each certify one program, Officer Awareness and Medical Response, with the Borough as the only recipient. The program text reads funding for first responder mental health and drug abuse awareness training as well as funding for medical kits and supplies for first responder vehicles to aid victims. Its primary category is Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, with Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention as a second category and the Schedule B strategies Prevent Misuse of Opioids, Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms and First Responders (FY2025 pp2 to 4, FY2026 pp4 to 7). The FY2026 report certifies 14,038.16 spent in the program and the FY2025 report 4,279.59. The settlement account paid Dave and Buster's of New Jersey 3,598.80 for a L.E.A.D. night out on order 252369, check 67988 on 04/14/2026. It paid JCM Associates 2,057.00 for L.E.A.D. graduation shirts on order 252076, check 67098 on 11/11/2025. It paid W.B. Mason 498.45 for Lysol and Purell, check 66594 on 08/12/2025, and 265.74 for sanitizers and Lysol wipes, check 68076 on 04/28/2026. In FY2025 it paid Amazon 149.94 for a wipe dispenser and surface disinfecting wipes, check 66236 on 05/27/2025. The six payments total 6,569.93, all inside the certified figures. None of them is training or a medical kit. An arcade outing, apparel and cleaning supplies are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them. No evidence-based program they serve is documented.