Funding-source substitution

Juneteenth was a Township event before settlement money

$5,100.00

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalHillside Township

Funding-source substitution · Inference · Updated 09/26/2026 · 1 document

The FY2025 report gives the Juneteenth program a launch date of 06/16/2023. The Township's purchase order listing, PO dates 01/06/2022 to 06/01/2026, shows Juneteenth purchases in each year before the settlement account bought anything. They are banners for 420.00 on PO 110135 dated 06/20/2022, T-shirts for 792.23 on PO 112912 dated 06/12/2023, a 56.00 Mayor's Office order on PO 113821 dated 09/28/2023, balloons for 410.00 on PO 116076 dated 06/17/2024, a 79.94 reimbursement on PO 116078 dated 06/18/2024 and a plaque for 120.00 on PO 116143 dated 06/28/2024. None of them is on the opioid settlement account listing. In 2025 the same listing shows three Taj Entertainment orders of 1,100.00 each dated 06/18/2025, POs 118793, 118794 and 118795, plus a balloon arch for 600.00, decorations for 116.13 and a 44.95 reimbursement for water and ice on PO 118867 dated 07/03/2025. Only 118795 is on the settlement account. The listing has no account column, so it does not show which fund paid the other orders or whether all three Taj orders were paid. The settlement account carries the 1,100.00 Taj order, which the FY2025 report certifies as expended, and an open 4,000.00 Juneteenth order to Knights for a Cause, Inc. dated 08/13/2025 that the listing does not show as paid. That the settlement money took over part of a cost the Township already carried is this project's inference from these records.

Inference, not a finding

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