Certified no settlement spending while paying 137,514.99

The FY2024 report certifies 0.00 expended and 0.00 encumbered between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1) and answers No to funding any program with settlement money (p3). Its Q8a says the Police Department ran the opioid mapping and response team on grant funding in FY24 and would start using settlement funds in FY25. The account G-SS-24-50-101B-299, OPIOID SETTLEMENTS POLICE DEPT., 23, under the control NJDO HUMAN SERVICES OPIOID, POLICE, CY23, paid 137,514.99 in that window on seven lines, from check 283823 on 01/24/2024 to check 287610 on 06/14/2024. That is 131,163.73 to Recovery Advocates of America for the Opioid Response Team, 5,000.00 to NYU Wagner and 1,351.26 to Trenton Joe's for police uniforms and polos. The account's only money then was its 500,000.00 appropriation. The three CY23 settlement appropriations, 500,000.00 Police, 400,000.00 Health and Human Services and 102,122.16 Recreation, total 1,002,122.16, the settlement money the FY2023 report says the City received by 06/30/2023. The City's strategic plan says the team would use 240,000 of Opioid Settlement Funds. The FY2025 report then counts as settlement spending 116,161.51 paid from the same 500,000.00 between 08/09/2024 and 02/05/2025, before any transfer reached the account. A report of no spending and seven payments from the settlement account cannot both be true.