Used settlement money for costs its budget had carried

The FY2024 report says the Police Chief, Health Officer and Township Administrator decided to keep the funds to offset costs from the Opioid Epidemic (Q11). The FY2025 report says the Township is using the funds to purchase equipment as necessary for its new full-time Fire Department and EMT department (Q10). The vendor histories printed 09/08/2026 show the Township's own budget lines buying the same goods from the same vendors. V.E. Ralph and Son sold the Township defibrillators, AED pads and batteries, oxygen regulators, masks and other EMS supplies on Police, Fire, Buildings and Grounds, Emergency Management and Parks lines from 2018 to 2026. That includes police defibrillators for 15,234.20 on capital ordinance account C-04-55-983-002, paid 06/16/2020. The settlement accounts paid V.E. Ralph 1,791.40 for a defibrillator on 08/18/2025 and 8,234.80 for EMS supplies on 01/27/2026. In between, the Parks line paid V.E. Ralph 1,658.30 for a new defibrillator on 11/03/2025 and the Buildings and Grounds line paid 1,588.70 for another on 12/31/2025. Tropic Window Tinting was paid 1,655.00 from the Police Materials and Supplies line in 2019, including tint for a Ford and two hall windows, and 5,650.00 from Police Other Contractual Services on 12/12/2022 for an outer entry and a window wall. The settlement account paid it 3,850.00 to tint Police Department windows on 01/19/2024. The Township did not produce the appropriation history of these lines, so the record does not show whether local spending fell. That the settlement money took over costs the Township's budget carried is this project's inference from these records.