Charged the fund for costs police and fire lines carried

The Township's vendor histories show the settlement account paying vendors and costs that police, fire and Municipal Alliance accounts paid before, and in some cases on the same check. DARE Advocacy's D.A.R.E. tuition fee was paid from Police: Training & Education by check 32722 on 01/26/2023. Its DARE officer training was then paid from the settlement account by check 35417, 1,900.00, on 05/13/2024. The same instructor's CPR class was paid from Fire: Training & Education in 2020 and 2022, then from the settlement account by check 35327, 1,320.00, on 04/26/2024. A&B Promotions, a promotional products vendor, was paid 932.00 from two police lines in 07/2023, then 2,281.50 for giveaways from the settlement account in 08/2024. Creative Product Sourcing DARE items and supplies were paid from Police: Youth Aid Bureau and Municipal Alliance grant accounts from 2018, then 10,416.50 from the settlement account in 2024, and from the Municipal Alliance grant again in 2025 and 2026. V.E. Ralph medical supplies were paid from Police: Medical Supplies every year from 2019 to 2025, and Lifesavers defibrillator items from that line and recreation lines from 2019. The settlement account paid the two vendors 5,953.45 for described medical and defibrillator supplies from 08/2024 to 07/2026. Check 36029 on 08/12/2024, check 36245 on 09/25/2024 and check 36983 on 02/12/2025 each paid one V.E. Ralph order from the settlement account and another from Police: Medical Supplies. On 10/01/2025 the Township placed consecutive V.E. Ralph quotes 114599 and 114600 and charged the first to Police: Medical Supplies and the second to the settlement account. The records do not show the police and fire budgets for these years. That the settlement money replaced spending those lines would otherwise have carried is this project's inference from these records. N.J.S.A. 26:2G-39(f) requires the money to supplement local spending, not supplant it.