Misreported expenditure

Certified 3,500.00 of spending the ledger had reversed

$3,500.00

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalNorth Plainfield

Misreported expenditure · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2024 report certifies 3,600.00 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1). Its program pages certify 3,500.00 of it to Not an Easy Fix, funded 10/17/2023, an assembly teaching high school students about drug awareness, and 100.00 to LEAD Training (pp2 to 4). The account paid Not An Easy Fix, Inc. 3,500.00 for a DJ Choices NPHS assembly on purchase order 23-01810, check 1459, on 10/24/2023. On 12/01/2023 journal Reference 2151, Reclass Ck#1459 PO#23-01810, credited the same 3,500.00 back to account G-02-40-771-201. From that date the settlement account bore none of the cost. The only charge it carried in the year was LEAD Inc check 2385 for 100.00 on 04/09/2024. The report certifies as spent from settlement funds a payment the Borough's own ledger had moved off the settlement account seven months before the year closed. The audit trail does not show which account took the charge.