Program misclassification

Certified construction and moved clinic bills as treatment

$149,768.18

Amount in this finding

FGrade FPassaic

Program misclassification · Verified · Updated 10/04/2026 · 7 documents

The FY2025 report certifies 149,768.18 expended and places all of it under one program, Passaic Alliance. The FY2023 report listed Passaic Alliance as a Treatment program with a launch date of 01/01/2006 and said the City had pre-existing treatment and prevention operations that may benefit from the funds more than new programs. The FY2025 report calls it an existing treatment program that has served opioid-involved individuals for over a decade and answers No when asked whether the City funded any new programs. The City's records response of 10/01/2026 says the City established the Passaic Alliance in 1998 as a City department. The certified figure equals the account's charges in the year to the cent, and this project classifies all of it as non-conforming. 47,739.06 is four journals that moved clinic invoices the Alliance account T-03-56-330-3SU-MAP had already paid onto the fund. 1,977.12 is three Zoobook Systems monthly health record fees, a fee the Alliance accounts had paid since 09/06/2022. Those 49,716.18 replaced funding the clinic already carried. The other 100,052.00 is the settlement share of payment application 9 for the new building at 69 Jefferson Street. The report names that work. It says the treatment program will be relocated to a City-owned location and that funds were used to modify the structure to comply with NJ State guidelines for treatment centers. CDBG paid 1,294,988.00 of the 1,395,040.00 construction contract. No record shows the building licensed or treating patients. Construction and real estate are not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The program block also says funds defrayed unreimbursed expenses for a prescriber of medication for opioid use disorder. The first payment the ledger labels prescriber services is dated 07/15/2025, in the next fiscal year. The year's charges include reclassed Dr. Nirmal Trivedi physician services. The records do not show whether he prescribed medication for opioid use disorder.