The FY2024 report certifies the Intermediate School L.E.A.D Program at 1,938.75 with JCM Associates as recipient. It describes an anti-drug curriculum taught by law enforcement officers to fifth grade students (pp16 to 17). The FY2025 report certifies the L.E.A.D Program at 1,827.50 with JCMS Associates, LLC as recipient and the same description for sixth grade students (p6). The books show both figures are T-shirts. Check 3804 paid JCM Associates 907.50, 660.00 and 371.25 on 05/09/2024 on purchase orders 24-00665, 24-00671 and 24-00672, each described as L.E.A.D. T-SHIRTS. Check 5821 paid 977.50 and 850.00 on 05/08/2025 on purchase orders 25-00710 and 25-00711, described the same way. No curriculum cost appears in the books. The vendor history shows the Township bought the same shirts from Community Hope L.E.A.D. grant accounts from 2019 to 2023. The settlement account then paid 2,177.75 for OTPD L.E.A.D. T-shirts from a new vendor by check 8095 on 05/14/2026, a year the Township did not report. Shirts are not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no listed use covers them.
Program misclassification
Certified police T-shirts as an anti-drug curriculum
$3,766.25
Amount in this finding
FGrade F · provisionalOcean Township
Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/04/2026 · 5 documents