Used 750,000.00 of settlement money as a bond down payment

On 07/29/2025 the City moved 750,000.00 out of the National Opioids Trust, account T-14- -100-179, with the description To Capital Ordinance 02-2025. The posting reference report prints three budget journals that day. Reference 24013 moved 750,000.00. Reference 24014 reversed it. Reference 24015 moved it again, crediting Cash Trust Other. The net is one 750,000.00 transfer. Ordinance O-02-25, adopted 5 to 0 on 02/12/2025, appropriates 11,421,608 and authorizes 9,821,608 of bonds or notes. Section 1 states that the 750,000 of down payments required by the Local Bond Law come from moneys received as the City's allocable share of payments from settlements of lawsuits related to the opioid epidemic. Section 3 spreads the down payment over five purposes. The Health and Technology Center, including furniture, a camera system, access control, audio, alarms and technology equipment, takes 535,109. City Center Park, including playground and exercise equipment and benches, takes 168,926. Land at 228 Morris Avenue and at 209 Westwood Avenue takes 6,566 each. Section 20 costs take 32,833. The capital audit trail printed 08/31/2026 shows the park account committed in full to Shorelands Construction at 2,572,538.00 on 07/09/2025, under a purchase order line described Health, Wellness and Tech Ctr, both parcels bought for 100,000.00 each on 03/14/2025, and an open order of 488,954.05 to SHI International Corp. for Health and Tech Ctr Cameras dated 06/26/2026. Park construction, land and Section 20 costs are not among the uses Exhibit E lists. No treatment, recovery or connection to care program operating in the building is documented.