Funding-source substitution, Year-end salary reclass

Certified a police payroll and renewals as opioid programs

$1,251,338.58

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalEdison Township

Funding-source substitution, Year-end salary reclass · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 5 documents

The FY2026 report certifies a new program, the Police Opioid Response Capacity Building & Coordination Initiative, under Workforce Development and Capacity Building, funded and launched 07/01/2025, with 1,179,981.00 spent and 239 served (p16 to p20). It says the money supported a limited allocation of Police Department personnel costs for planning, coordination, education and information sharing (p17 to p18), was disbursed throughout the reporting period as costs were incurred (p19), and was not intended to replace ordinary police funding (p23 to p24). The books show one payroll posting on one pay date. Reference 7189 on 12/24/2025 charged account G-02-24-0330-795-000 with police base pay 1,007,786.98, part time 39,016.50, overtime 87,369.14 and civilian base pay 45,808.38, 1,179,981.00 to the cent. The base pay line is 98.81 percent of one biweekly base payroll for all 195 sworn positions on the Township's 2025 salary administration. The same report certifies 71,357.58 as an expansion of Officer Safety / Evidence Retrieval through additional investment in and acquisition of investigative, forensic and evidence retrieval resources (p27 to p28). The books show eight Police Department purchase orders, each printed on the police operating line 5-01-25-0240-000-059, moved onto the same account by journal on 10/31/2025, 11/15/2025 and 12/31/2025, 71,357.58 to the cent. Seven are subscriptions the department already carried. Six of them are renewals or annual plans, and the Lexipol training term began 01/01/2025, before the year opened. One pay period of the whole department is not a year of charges for planning and coordination, and subscriptions already in place are not an expansion. Both were operating budget costs moved onto the settlement money. No abatement program using the payroll or the software is documented. Existing police payroll and police software are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.