Phantom programs

FY2026 report calls police payroll a prevention program

$71,765.73

Amount in this finding

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Phantom programs · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 6 documents

The FY2026 report certifies one new program, Class I's, as Primary Prevention, Education, and Training (p4 to p6). It describes a program to educate the public and provide a presence in the parks and playgrounds for opioid education and outreach, serving 5,000 people. It certifies 71,765.73 spent on it (p5). That is the same figure the report certifies as received for the year (p1, Q1 and Q6), with 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 unspent (p2). The Township's ledger shows what the opioid accounts paid in the year. From 09/19/2025 to 05/15/2026 they carry Gross Pay/ER FICA charges for eighteen biweekly pay dates, 172,212.50 net of adjustments moved between the 2024 and 2025 accounts. Resolution 2025-268 hires Special Police Officers Class II at 23.00 an hour and titles five of them Part Time, Opioid Settlement. The ledger shows no other charge in the year. The report does not say the money paid police wages. Every posting ends in .00 or .50 except two 629.95 adjustment legs, so no set of them can sum to a figure ending in .73. A public education program is not 172,212.50 of police wages, and the certified spending is the receipts figure, not a sum of payments. The ledger production ends 05/28/2026, so any June 2026 charges to the opioid accounts are not in the record. Police payroll is not among the uses Exhibit E lists, and no education program using the officers is documented.