Funding-source substitution

A housing contractor since 2018 got 130,000.00 of it

$130,000.00

Amount in this finding

FGrade FLakewood Township

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

The Township's purchase order history for vendor STE29 S.T.E.P.S. (Solutions To End), run from 01/01/18 to 08/28/26, lists 74 purchase orders with a grand total of 5,206,940.99 and 61,286.02 void. The descriptions are fair housing payments, rental and affordable housing work, back rent, office rent, Code Blue and COVID recovery money. One purchase order names opioids. Purchase order 25005711, dated 08/14/2025, reads OPIOID GRANT FOR 2025 SERVICES at 130,000.00, and the opioid account paid it on check 76216 on 08/22/2025. The quarterly fair housing payments of 30,000.00 run on either side of it, on 08/01/2025 and 10/09/2025. The Township's 2025 budget carries the same organization as Solutions to End Poverty on Community Services Act line 27-332, appropriated 120,000.00 for 2024, with nothing in the Paid or Charged column and 120,000.00 in the Reserved column.