Certified police overtime as an addiction counselor

The FY2025 report certifies the Bridgewater-Raritan REACH Program at 29,027.58 funded and expended, recipient Community In Crisis, primary category Treatment (p4 to p5). It describes the program in one line. Bridgewater Township has hired and on-staff, on-premises addiction counselor. The account paid Community In Crisis 5,000.00 in the year, check 16104 on 04/14/2025. Its other FY2025 payments are Not An Easy Fix 8,750.00, ZSchool 35,550.00 and five payroll journals from 03/14/2025 to 05/30/2025, 14,027.58 in all. The payroll check registers for those five pay dates show the journals are the Opioid Training earnings code, paid to 35 employees in group 420 Police, 4.00 hours each at one and a half times each employee's salary rate. No other department carries an opioid earnings code, and no earnings code names counseling. The certified 29,027.58 equals the 14,027.58 of police overtime plus the 15,000.00 still open on Community In Crisis purchase order 25-00958 at 06/30/2025, to the cent. The payroll journals are the only FY2025 payments with cents, so they can sit in no other program. No addiction counselor's pay was charged to the account.