Funding-source substitution

The 2024 community services grant came from the opioid fund

$172,392.00

Amount in this finding

FGrade FLakewood Township

Funding-source substitution · Inference · Updated 09/23/2026 · 3 documents

The Township paid Lakewood Community Services a yearly general services grant. Its purchase order history for vendor LAK46 shows 50,000.00 for social support services in 2018 and 2019, 2020 social services 50,000.00, 2021 services 50,000.00, 2022 services 50,000.00, 2023 services 50,000.00 and 2025 services 32,679.23. There is no 2024 services purchase order. The opioid account paid purchase order 25004852, OPIOID GRANT FOR 2024 SERVICES, 172,392.00, to Lakewood Community Services on check 75678 on 07/25/2025, under vendor code LCS01. The Township's 2025 budget shows Community Services Act line 27-334 Lakewood Community Services Corp. appropriated 50,000.00 for 2024, with nothing in the Paid or Charged column and 50,000.00 in the Reserved column. On these records the Township's 2024 grant to this organization was paid from settlement money instead of the general fund line that carried it in earlier years. This is an inference. The history produced is for vendor code LAK46 and does not show the opioid purchase orders, which sit under code LCS01, and the Township answered that no records exist for account 27-334.

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