Paid 51,639.00 for a police van from settlement money

North Brunswick Township paid Malouf Ford 51,639.00 for a 2025 Ford Transit van from account G-02-24-130-006-888, which the Township named Opioid Police Funding. Purchase order 26-02165 is dated 03/19/2026, ships to the Dept. of Public Safety and charges that account. Check 89296 paid it on 03/23/2026, was voided on 03/24/2026, and check 89343 paid the same 51,639.00 the same day. Bid invitation BID26002 asks for one 2025 Ford Transit van for the Police Department. Its 28 pages never use the words opioid, outreach, recovery, settlement or grant, and specify no outreach, treatment or passenger program feature. Resolution 114-3.26, adopted 03/02/2026, awards the contract for a Van for Opioid Recovery Outreach Programs. The Chief Financial Officer certified the 51,639.00 available in grant account G-02-24-130-006-888. On 05/01/2026 the Township charged the 60.00 title fee for the van's VIN to its POLICE Vehicles line. The van is 51,639.00 of the 58,574.08 paid from the two opioid accounts produced. The FY2025 report told the State the Township planned to use the funds for Police Use, community awareness and Student training. The resolution calls the van an outreach van. The bid, the purchase order and the title fee treat it as a police vehicle, and no outreach program using it is documented. The Township bought its police vehicles with its own money in every year from 2019 to 2026. A police vehicle is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.