Replaced police defibrillators with settlement money

The FY2025 report certifies the first of these purchases to the State as a new program. It replaced equipment the Borough already had. The Borough bought police defibrillators from its capital budget before it spent any settlement money. General capital account 04-2018-201802-4028-43-04233, Ordinance 2018-02, Equipment-Police, object Defibrillator, was appropriated at 18,400.00. From it the Borough paid Physio-Control, Inc. 17,986.00 on check 1440 on 09/04/2018 for LIFEPAK defibrillators for Police, and Stryker Sales Corporation 396.00 on check 1850 on 07/25/2022 for defibrillation electrodes for Police. From police capital account 04-2016-201607-4028-43-04024 it paid Physio-Control 4,207.80 on check 1958 on 01/08/2024 for defibrillators. On 05/19/2025 check 19537 paid Stryker 27,068.40 from opioid account 01-9999-0120-0000-2-09280 for ten LIFEPAK CR2 defibrillators for Police, net of a 4,000.00 credit for the trade-in of a Stryker LIFEPAK the Borough already owned. Two more Stryker orders were paid from the opioid account. PO 20251196, Defibrillators, 29,868.59 on check 20220 on 01/12/2026. PO 20251380, 11,241.80 on check 20830 on 08/17/2026. On 10/06/2025 the Borough raised PO 20251380 on the opioid account and Stryker PO 20251374, Equipment for Ambulance, 8,840.69, on capital account 04-2024-202410-4156-50-04193. The FY2025 report describes the program as replacing end of life defibrillators with new units. N.J.S.A. 26:2G-39(f) bars settlement money from supplanting existing local spending. No overdose program using the defibrillators is documented.