Program misclassification

Certified a pizza shop order as police officer education

$616.55

Amount in this finding

AGrade A · provisionalMarlboro Township

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 6 documents

The FY2026 report updates the 2023 program Education of police officers at 616.55 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, with one training or education session and no modifications (pp5 to 6). The FY2023 report gave its recipient as Marlboro Township, its target population as public safety officers and its purpose as education about opioid issues (p2). The FY2024 and FY2025 reports said no funds were encumbered or expended on it and that the program was not funded. The books show one charge to it. Purchase order 90177, dated 01/27/2026, pays Meli's Thin & Crispy Pizza Co. for refreshments for an opioid overdose awareness class drill on 01/20/2026. Check 39730 paid 616.55 on 02/12/2026 from account 02-213-22-923-106294 (account detail p7). The restaurant's receipt is a take-out order placed at 6:43 PM on 01/20/2026 for four plain pizzas, pasta trays, salads and sandwich platters, 695.94 less a 15 percent law enforcement discount of 104.39, plus a 25.00 tip. Besides a card slip, the order file holds a lesson plan titled Opioid Overdoses and the Use of Narcan for the EMT, and an email from the Marlboro EMS Chief inviting other squads' members to a blood borne pathogen drill and a Narcan drill at 7:30 that evening and asking for each attendee's EMT id. No record names a police officer, lists an attendee or shows a payment to a trainer. The report says the money educated police officers. The record shows it bought food for an EMS drill night. Food is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.