Police course and payroll certified as prevention

The FY2025 report certifies a program named Operational Readiness for Police Officers at 26,221.11, recipient Seton Hall University, recipient category First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services, primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training. Its measure is completion of the four-hour course by the Metuchen police force. The Borough's vendor file shows no payment to Seton Hall University. The ledger shows ZSchool LLC 14,850.00 on check 106 for OP READINESS FOR POLICE COURSE plus five checks to the Current Fund captioned PAYROLL OPIOID, 03/12/2025 to 05/07/2025, totaling 11,371.11. 14,850.00 plus 11,371.11 equals 26,221.11. The report names a recipient the Borough did not pay and files the police payroll inside the prevention program. The Borough's Paylocity earnings listing shows the 11,371.11 is police pay under the pay codes Grant Opioid Training. It is 33 officers at 4 hours each, 10,737.02 of overtime for 29 officers and 634.09 of regular pay for 4 officers. Grouped by check date it ties to the five checks to the cent. The 33 clients the report projects are the 33 officers. So 43.4 percent of the certified prevention program is the Borough's own police payroll, paid back to its Current Fund. The regular pay is salary the Borough would have paid anyway. N.J.S.A. 26:2G-39(f) and MOA Section D(7) require settlement money to supplement and not supplant local funds, and D(7) bars using it to reimburse past expenditures.