Breath testing sat in the police budget before and after

The Township's Draeger vendor history runs from 01/17/2018 to 03/11/2026. Every Alcotest certification, calibration, simulator, probe, hose, solution and dry gas charge in it was paid from police or communications lines of the current fund, 5,154.75 in all. That includes Alcotest 7110 simulator and temperature items paid on 05/22/2024 and a dry gas order paid on 03/11/2026. The Police Department other expense audit trails for budget years 2019 to 2026 carry 3,218.50 of those charges, in every budget year but 2025, and tie to the vendor history to the cent. The rest is 2018 police lines and communications lines. The only Draeger purchase charged to the settlement account is the Alcotest 9510 system on purchase order 24-01755, 22,822.50. The breath testing program ran on the police budget before the settlement paid for its new instrument and kept running there after. The records do not say whether the 9510 replaced the 7110 or which budget would have bought it. That the settlement money took over a cost the police budget carried is this project's inference from these records.