Certified a police message sign as prevention

Purchase order 24-02168, dated 12/05/2024 and described as Sign Boards for Anti-Drug Msg, bought a Ver-Mac PCMS-548-CP portable changeable message sign from Certified Speedometer Service. Check 46548 paid 39,450.00 on 05/06/2025, 30,561.11 from account G-02-40-395-023 and 8,888.89 from G-02-40-395-024. It is the only purchase order the Township issued to this vendor from 2018 through 2026. The FY2025 report certifies the same 39,450.00 to the Barnegat Township Police Department as the program Message Sign, in the category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training (p4). It is 74 percent of all spending the report certifies for the year. No record produced shows what the sign has displayed or where it has stood, and no evidence based prevention program using it is documented. A police message sign is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.