Spent it on tents, cups, keychains and giveaways

The township paid 7,094.05 from the police miscellaneous line for community relations goods. A custom tent, backdrop and cloths for 1,455.00 and a canopy bundle for 999.00, both from Carpa Conexion, LLC of Chattanooga. Cups and keychains for 642.64, community relations items for 2,497.59 and community events giveaways for 1,499.82, all from Mary Bridget Enterprises, Inc of Cinnaminson. Every line is charged to the police Other Expenses control account under the sub account named POLICE: Miscellaneous. The FY2023 report gives the rationale in the township's own words. It spends solely on items that help officers engage the community, with pamphlets and giveaways at events. No record documents an evidence-based prevention program that these goods serve, and none of them is among the uses Exhibit E lists. Whether the police budget carried the same vendors before 2022 is not on this record. The all funds vendor history has been requested and not produced.