Funding-source substitution

Moved the Borough newsletter off its own printing line

$19,716.00

Amount in this finding

DGrade D · provisionalNew Providence

Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 12 documents

The Borough paid for its newsletter from its printing line, account x-01-20-100-231-000000, in every year from 2019 through 2024, and for its annual calendar from 2020. The Courier Printing Corp vendor history shows seven orders on that line, 30,100.00. They are calendars of 5,330.00 by check 262108 on 12/07/2020, 5,330.00 by check 263265 on 10/12/2021, 6,412.00 by check 265119 on 01/24/2023 and 6,012.00 by check 266476 on 01/10/2024, and newsletters of 2,298.00, 2,298.00 and 2,420.00 in 2024. Every Courier order since is on the settlement account, 6,012.00 by check 10571 on 01/28/2025, 6,122.00 by check 10631 on 01/27/2026 and 2,492.00 by check 10639 on 03/24/2026. Scott Hale's newsletter printing and design charges ran on the printing line from 2019. The 2023 line carries three Hale editions at 2,820.00 each, 8,460.00. In 2024 the printing line paid his three 500.00 newsletter design charges. From 2025 the settlement account paid Hale 1,795.00 and 375.00 by check 10599 on 05/27/2025 and 500.00 by check 10640 on 03/24/2026, while the printing line kept one 500.00 Hale newsletter charge in 2025 and one in 2026. The 2,420.00 fall 2024 newsletter was moved from the printing line to the settlement account by journal on 10/14/2024. Through 09/08/2026 the settlement account carries 19,716.00 of newsletter costs, the seven entries listed. The Municipal Alliance reimbursed the printing line 2,182.50 in six newsletter reimbursements from 04/15/2019 to 10/11/2023 and nothing after. The fund now pays for a publication the Borough's own printing line carried every year before. These are the same payments the FY2025 and FY2026 findings count by report year, 10,602.00 and 9,114.00, seen here as a change of payer.

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