Split a police vehicle with federal forfeiture money

Purchase order 25-02182, dated 03/26/2025 and marked FOR K9 VEHICLE, buys one 2025 Ford Police Interceptor Utility for 45,749.11 and splits it between two accounts. It charges 73.28 percent, 33,522.65, to the settlement account and 26.72 percent, 12,226.46, to the federal Equitable Sharing account T-20-56-293-000-0030. Checks 2659 and 1207 paid the two shares of Nielsen Ford invoice 13604 on 08/15/2025. The Equitable Sharing account had received 1,959,018.75 of US Treasury DOJ forfeiture money on 11/20/2024. On 05/07/2025 it paid United Ford 479,373.00 on a Ford PIU AWD order, purchase order 25-00337, and Nielsen Ford 272,176.48 net for Ford Explorers, purchase order 24-07897. It bought the same Tropic Window Tinting K9 upfit items as the settlement account. Equitable Sharing purchase orders 25-01525 and 25-01526, encumbered 02/26/2025, each carry C3-K9-2 at 242,642.25, C3-HARN-UNIV-4 at 14,675.00 and C3-POWER-DIST at 9,656.25, less the same 46 percent contract discount. Settlement purchase order 25-02181, encumbered 03/26/2025, carries the same three items at 48,528.45, 2,935.00 and 3,862.50. Check 1210 paid 25-01526 from Equitable Sharing on 10/08/2025, the day check 2671 paid 25-02181 from the settlement account. The same day, check 1209 paid Shallow Creek Kennels 9,200.00 for a dual purpose police service order and 600.00 for an import tariff fee from Equitable Sharing. The Township was paying for police vehicles, K9 upfits and K-9 unit purchases from forfeiture money in the same months. The settlement account paid 65,098.66 of the same kind of purchase.