Program misclassification

Certified traffic cones and food as harm reduction

$17,337.54

Amount in this finding

FGrade FBurlington Township

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 6 documents

The FY2025 report certifies a program named Initial set up for Community Outreach at 17,337.54 funded and expended (pp4 to 5). It names Burlington Township as the recipient, files it under the recipient category Community Based Organizations/Non-Governmental Organizations and gives the primary category as Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention. Its Schedule B strategies include Treat Opioid Use Disorder and Support People in Treatment and Recovery. It reports 500 participants served, 10 encounters and 3 referrals to treatment. The books show the Township buying goods. Traffic Safety Service was paid 2,701.90 on check 84813 on 05/13/2025 for 28 inch cones, cone stencils, a STOP SLOW paddle, A-frame blanks, cone signs and a CHILDREN AT PLAY sign. Burlington Truck Center was paid 5,903.00 on check 83522 on 11/26/2024 for a line described as to assist with outreach and, a 3500 lb drop spring and freight. Home Depot was paid 2,102.21, 811.60 of it for shelves in a trailer. Six Amazon invoices total 5,844.75 and the ledger does not say what they bought. A police officer was reimbursed 379.88 for condiments, buns, a meat market order and an Edmars purchase. The rest is 219.80 of L.E.A.D. shipping, 150.00 of vinyl, 36.00 of propane, and 102.29 of flowers that budget journal 6009 moved to a police line. These are every FY2025 payment except the Lexipol app, the Thanksgiving items and the 1,712.82 overtime journal, and they make the certified figure to the cent. No community organization was paid. No naloxone, treatment or harm reduction service appears in the purchases.