Police lines bought the same vehicles, lights and lettering

The settlement lines paid 62,299.72 for one vehicle package, the Ford F150 at 48,752.00, its Elite Vehicle Solutions upfit at 10,147.72 and the Acerbo's police vehicle wrap at 3,400.00. The Township's own vendor reports show its police budget buying the same things from the same three vendors. Chas S. Winner Ford sold the Township police interceptors on Police Purchase of Vehicles and Police Trucks and SUVs from 2018 to 2022, and four 2026 Ford Utility Interceptors for 179,727.00 on ordinance 15-2025, Acquisition of PD SUVs, paid by check 1205 on 01/27/2026, three weeks before the F150. Elite was paid 331,288.01 for police vehicle and K-9 work from police vehicle lines, police vehicle ordinances and reserves on orders from 2021 to 2026. The same Sound Off runner light on the settlement order was paid from the police vehicle parts line on 01/27/2026. Acerbo's was paid 14,900.00 for police vehicle lettering on police lines and ordinances from 2018 to 2026. The 2019 to 2026 detail of the police vehicle and equipment lines was requested and had not been produced when this was published, so the record does not yet show whether those lines were reduced when the settlement lines took the truck. That the settlement money took over a cost the police budget carried is this project's inference from these records.