Conforming spending

Every settlement dollar paid went to the LEAD provider

$313,451.73

Amount in this finding

CGrade C · provisionalPhillipsburg

Conforming spending · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 3 documents

Account 02-213-41-661-001 paid 313,451.73 from 06/25/2025 to 05/04/2026, all of it to Morris County Prevention Is Key Inc on purchase order 46117 under contract R2025-34, for the Town's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program. The order opened at 251,700.00 on 06/11/2025, rose by 34,300.00 on 09/16/2025 and by 27,451.73 under Change Order 1, R:2025-217, on 11/13/2025. The account closed at 0.00 with 313,451.73 appropriated and 313,451.73 paid. The FY2025 report describes the program as intensive case management using peer support and reports 55 participants and 51 referrals to treatment. Exhibit E names LEAD among its diversion uses. The Town's vendor record for every fund from 01/01/2018 to 08/28/2026 shows no payment to this provider before 06/25/2025. No salary or wage appears on any of the six settlement accounts. The contract and invoices were not produced.