Certified 1,025.00 in lawyer fees as administrative costs

The FY2025 report certifies 1,025.00 spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and the same 1,025.00 as administrative expenses, which it details as litigation to the Tate Law Group (p1). The books show three lines of purchase order 25-00547, OPIATE LITIGATION, for Tate Law Group invoices 2013-58, 2013-63 and 2013-71. They are 368.44, 319.17 and 337.39, encumbered 05/01/2025 and paid by check 16898 on 05/14/2025 from the settlement account. The Town's vendor report for every fund from 01/01/2018 to 09/09/2026 shows no other payment to the firm. MOA Section E(6) routes payments to counsel to the Supplemental Contingent Fee Fund. Counsel fees are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them. The report certifies them as administration of the abatement money.