The only budget authority for the settlement money is a lump appropriation. The 2025 budget carries line 41-860 National Opioid Settlement Fund at 1,145,926.24 for 2024 and 38,723.03 for 2025, under Public and Private Programs Offset by Revenues. No grantee, program or use is named. This project searched the agenda packages for every Township Committee meeting in 2024 and 2025, including the 01/02/2025 reorganization meeting and the 01/31/2025 special meeting, and found no resolution awarding money to Shalva High School, NJ Rising Stars, Inc., S.T.E.P.S. or Lakewood Community Services and no use of the word opioid. The agenda package for 10/23/2025 is one of those searched. The meetings approve bills by a motion to approve the bill list, and the Township has not produced the bill lists.
Authorization gap
No Committee resolution names any grantee
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