Police vehicles came from the budget in every other year

The Township bought police vehicles in every fiscal year from 2019 through 2026 from its own money. It used the POLICE Vehicles operating line, the FY2025 line Aquisition of Police Safety Vehicles, and the truck purposes of annual bond ordinances 19-23 through 25-22, each of which names Public Safety first. Malouf Ford sold the Police Department a detective Ford Explorer, purchase order 26-01511, paid 01/05/2026 from the police vehicle line and Ordinance 24-12. The FY2025 police vehicle line was fully committed by 01/07/2026, and the FY2026 POLICE Vehicles line carries 0.00. Seventy eight days after the Explorer, Malouf was paid for the van from the opioid police account. After the van the Township went back to its own money. Two Dodge Durangos on purchase order 26-01690 were paid 05/26/2026 and 08/24/2026 from the police vehicle line and Ordinance 25-22. Reading the van as a fleet vehicle the Township would otherwise have paid for itself is an inference. It rests on this purchase history and on the police framing of the bid, the ship to address, the account name and the title charge.