80 percent of settlement spending went to arcade trips

From 06/13/2023 to 09/10/2026 the settlement account paid 26,805.00. 21,550.23 of it, 80.4 percent, went to Dave & Buster's of New Jersey, an arcade and entertainment venue, on four checks the ledger describes as the LEAD trip. Check 1870 paid 4,588.20 on 06/13/2023. Check 1928 paid 6,117.60 on 04/29/2024. Check 1974 paid 4,588.20 on 06/12/2025. Check 2024 paid 6,256.23 on 05/12/2026. First Student was paid 1,000.00 more for buses for the 2023 and 2024 trips. Each year the Borough described the trip to the State differently. The FY2023 report called it a K-12 prevention program run by the Municipal Alliance. The FY2024 report filed it under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention. The FY2025 report called it work with young adults to explain the dangers. The FY2026 report called it education for ages 0 to 18. None of the four reports names Dave & Buster's or a trip. The Borough's vendor report shows its own summer camp trips to the same venue, 1,227.64 to 2,294.10 a trip from 2022 to 2026, paid from recreation accounts. No record produced shows what the LEAD trips bought or who attended. No evidence-based prevention program built around them is documented, and no listed use covers an arcade outing.