Funding-source substitution

Paid the borough newsletter from the opioid fund

$30,724.28

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalCollingswood

Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 11 documents

The Town Crier is the Borough's newsletter. The Evergreen Printing vendor history shows the Borough paying for it from its NEWSLETTERS line, account 20-120-024 in each budget year, from 04/01/2019 through 07/03/2023. From 08/07/2023 through 05/04/2026 the settlement accounts paid all or part of eleven issues, 29,724.28. One issue was split on one invoice and one check. September 2023 invoice 143807 was paid by check 49899 on 10/02/2023, 500.00 to the settlement account and 2,158.18 to NEWSLETTERS. In the same years the Borough paid four other issues from COMM DEV/PUBLIC REL MISC, 13,117.63. The July 2026 issue, 2,539.12, went back to NEWSLETTERS by check 54105 on 08/04/2026. The settlement account also paid 1,000.00 of postage for the Town Crier by check 49485 on 06/15/2023. The U.S. Postal Service history shows Town Crier and Town Forum postage paid from NEWSLETTERS in 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 and from COMM DEV/PUBLIC REL MISC in 2023 and 2025. The reports certify the newsletter as a program named Education/Communication, under Prevention and Education in FY2023 and Primary Prevention, Education, and Training in FY2024, at 1,000.00, 2,867.97, 11,365.62 and 6,650.01. The FY2025 and FY2026 updates report 14,186 participants served, the figure the FY2023 report gives as the target population. The FY2025 report explains the program as mailing of Town Crier with educational information. The fund paid for a publication the Borough's own budget lines carried before, during and after.

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