Paid for the same equipment from its own budget before

The Borough's vendor history shows it bought defibrillator supplies from Lifesavers Inc. out of its current fund before the settlement money paid for them. 268.00 of AED Supplies on Contractual Services in 2018. AED pads and battery on Fire Equipment Other in 2021 for 245.04. Defibrillation pads on Fire Equipment Other in 2022 for 111.04, and adult and pediatric pads on Recreation and Educational Equipment in 2022 for 34.72 and 76.32. New AED pads for 121.07 in 2023. Replace expiring equipment for 271.02, first encumbered 12/06/2023 and paid 03/19/2024, on Fire Equipment Other. Those seven payments total 1,127.21. The same history shows LifeVac travel kits bought on 05/21/2024 for 304.91 on the Police Supplies line, check 17824. The appropriation line reports show more of the same from other vendors. Defibrillator pads for 185.00 from Continental Fire and Safety in 2020. Pediatric defibrillator pads for 773.44 and a defibrillator battery pack for 311.20 from Allied 100, AED Superstore in 2021. A purchase order for a new defibrillator from the same vendor, open on the Police Supplies line from 11/14/2022. Fourteen months later the Borough bought the same kits from the same vendor on the opioid account. In August 2025 the settlement money paid 22,642.51 for defibrillators and anti-choking kits for the police department. That is about twenty times what the current fund spent with Lifesavers in the six years before. The Borough kept charging some defibrillator supplies to the current fund after the settlement purchase, including a battery for 363.34 from UniFirst First Aid Corp paid 09/16/2025 on the Building Maintenance and Repair line.