Training program includes 5,724.45 of wages already paid

The FY2025 report certifies a new program named Training for First Responders at 15,174.45 expended, recipient Neptune Township EMS Department and Police Department, primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training. It says the funds paid for 30 attendees to train on practical strategies for addressing opioid use disorder. The books make the figure from five charges. Two are ZSchool at Seton Hall University course fees, 4,500.00 paid 11/25/2024 on purchase order 39263 and 4,950.00 paid 04/07/2025 on purchase order 40290. The other three are payroll journals, GJ 326 for 1,244.80, GJ 327 for 2,952.70 and GJ 328 for 1,526.95, a total of 5,724.45. Their descriptions read Adjust payroll for 5 Minutes to Help class and Adjust payroll for Operational Readiness class. Each is dated 06/30/2025, the last day of the reporting year, and each was entered on 07/23/2025, after the year closed. Their credit legs relieve the Township's current fund salary and wage lines, among them 2,291.94 of police full time salary on 01-201-25-240-011. More than a third of the certified training program is wages the Township had already paid from its own budget.