Moved night out merchandise from police lines to abatement

The Township has bought National Night Out and community day merchandise from the same vendor since 2018, charged to the police community policing and D.A.R.E. line and to the fire prevention lines. From August 2024 the same merchandise for the same events moved to the opioid account. The account paid 608.10 and 2,000.00 in September 2024, 2,226.43 in August 2025, 1,299.45 in September 2025 and 4,608.64 in August 2026, a total of 10,742.62. Youth week uniforms from the same vendor stayed on the D.A.R.E. line in August 2024 and again in June 2025, so both funding lines ran in parallel in the same months. The vendor payment history carries the whole sequence. No record documents an evidence-based prevention program that the merchandise serves, and promotional merchandise for a community event is not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, certifies the August and September 2025 orders, 3,525.88 to the cent, as spending on the National Night Out Police Youth Week program (page 7).