The FY2024 report updates the FY2023 program Pre-K to 8, High School and Town Buildings Substance Use Prevention and Potential Overdose Mitigation. It says the Township completed the purchase and installation of middle school bathroom vape detectors for an additional 10,248.00 and that the 10,248.00 was expended in FY2024 (p9). The report's certified expended figure, 32,182.13, is its three new programs, 2,578.00, 16,611.13 and 2,745.00, plus this 10,248.00, to the cent (pp1, 4, 6, 8 and 9). The FY2023 report files the program under primary category Overdose Prevention and gives its problem as underage e-cigarette use, nicotine and marijuana (pp3 to 4). The FY2025 and FY2026 reports repeat the 10,248.00 (FY2025 p9, FY2026 p13). The grant fund account, which carries settlement spending from 12/29/2023, shows no payment for vape detectors through 08/31/2026. The current fund account that carried spending before that date, 3-01-41-03592-701, was not produced. Exhibit E's school entry covers programs or strategies that have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing drug misuse. Vape detectors are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no prevention or cessation program using them is documented.
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NJ DHS 2023 Opioid Abatement Report, FY2023, Howell Township, State ID NJ98
NJ DHS Opioid Settlement Funding Report, FY2024, Howell Township, State ID NJ98
NJ DHS Opioid Settlement Funding Report, FY2025, Howell Township, State ID NJ98
NJ DHS Opioid Settlement Funding Report, FY2026, Howell Township, State ID NJ98