Certified a staff counseling benefit as opioid treatment

Three reports certify the Borough's Employee Assistance Program as an abatement program. FY2023 files it under Recovery and Support at 5,600.00, with a launch date of 05/09/2022 (p2). FY2024 files it under Treatment, Schedule B strategy Connections to Care, at 5,600.00, with a launch date of 01/01/2024, and reports 10 participants served (pp2 to 3). It answers that the Borough did not solicit quotes from other EAP service providers. FY2025 updates it at 5,600.00 with 22 participants (p3). The program is one contract. The EAP Services Agreement with The Cooper Health System, made 06/01/2022, pays a flat 5,600.00 and renews from year to year. It gives borough employees and their immediate family up to five short-term counseling sessions for personal or emotional problems, including marital and family problems, substance abuse and psychological difficulties, with a referral after the fifth visit. It excepts alcohol and drug detoxification and rehabilitation from the services at the program's offices. The Cooper vendor history shows five payments of 5,600.00 on that contract. Check 47958 on 06/06/2022 was charged to HEALTH BENEFITS. Checks 49377 on 06/05/2023, 50757 on 05/06/2024 and 52178 on 04/07/2025 were charged to the settlement accounts. Check 53925 on 06/16/2026 went back to HEALTH BENEFITS. The same benefit, at the same price, was carried by the Borough's health benefits line before and after the three years the fund paid for it. The FY2024 launch date contradicts the contract, the FY2023 report and the 2022 payment. A five-session counseling benefit for any personal problem of staff is not treatment for opioid use disorder, which is what Exhibit E's Treatment uses describe.