Paid 178,609.15 of payroll with no titles or hours

The Township's payroll report for account G-05-00-984-100, check dates 06/01/2023 to 09/02/2026, totals 178,609.15 across 36 named employees and 45 check dates. It matches the 45 payroll charges on the account to the cent, from 12/12/2023 to 08/17/2026. That is 61.3 percent of the 291,298.94 the account paid through 08/30/2026. By fiscal year the payroll is 18,230.78 in FY2024, 44,900.32 in FY2025 and 105,843.20 in FY2026, with 9,634.85 more from 07/01/2026 to 08/17/2026. The report gives no title, hours or pay code for any employee. Twelve of the names appear in the Township's police salary and wage audit trails, in overtime reimbursements from the county narcotics task force and federal Homeland Security Investigations and in disability and vacation entries. Four employees received 137,924.80, 77.2 percent of the total, all of it from 11/27/2024 on. The FY2026 report names the Chief of Police and a police lieutenant as the officials who decided the spending. The records do not show what work the hours paid for.