The County pays one vendor monthly for transportation and it moved that bill onto settlement money. The County's own vendor payment history, produced 09/04/2026, carries the whole relationship on one report. Monthly transportation ran on county account G-02-22-330-332-20217, a Professional Services line, from the October 2023 service month through the March 2025 service month, ending with purchase order 25-02586 for March 2025 at 8,478.75 paid on check 438864 dated 04/17/2025. The next service month, April 2025, is purchase order 25-03685 at 7,671.25 paid on check 439441 dated 05/29/2025, and it is charged to settlement account G-02-22-331-382-20302. From that month forward the settlement account carries thirteen monthly invoices, 92,458.75 in total, through the June 2026 service month. Same vendor, same monthly cadence, same invoice format, same dollar band, and no gap between the last invoice on the old account and the first invoice on the settlement account. The change in funding source is on the face of a county record. The County can answer it by showing that the rides bought on settlement funds serve a different population than the rides it bought before. The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, lists the service as a program named Holcomb Transportation, bus rides for elementary school students to an after school club, under Primary Prevention, Education, and Training (pages 12 to 15). It gives the program's funding date as 09/20/2023, the start of the contract the County paid from its own account until the March 2025 service month. It certifies 71,463.75 spent in the year, which equals the ten invoices paid in the window to the cent. The County produced this line twice and the two do not agree. The account report prints 84,787.50 expended to date against the 92,458.75 the vendor payment history shows charged to the same account. The difference is exactly the April 2025 invoice. The activity on this line before 05/01/2026 has not been produced in full.
Funding-source substitution
Moved an existing transportation bill onto settlement money
$92,458.75
Amount in this finding
BGrade B · provisionalGloucester County
Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 4 documents