Hammonton
- 01FY2025 balance leaves out the 22,678.88 received that year22,678.88
- 02FY2026 balance is 7,473.02 below what its own figures leave7,473.02
- 03FY2026 report certifies 1,557.23 spent but no programs1,557.23
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Hammonton has received $80,759.44 in opioid settlement funds. No ledger has been produced.
The money, four ways.
Four figures describe the same settlement money. Each one comes from a different document.
Certified against the books,
every report year.
Every year this jurisdiction has filed, and the year it has not. The match on each row is computed from the rows, not judged.
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $9,963.29
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $42,647.54
- Received to date
- $42,647.54
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $1,000.00
- Unspent on hand
- $34,702.54
- Received to date
- $65,326.42
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $1,557.23
- Unspent on hand
- $52,094.28
- Received to date
- $80,759.44
3 findings.
Every finding is verified to the documents in its own row. An inference is labelled as one.
Red with the marker: a certified figure the books contradict.
The FY2025 report certifies 22,678.88 received between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and 65,326.42 received since 2022 (page 1).
It certifies 1,000.00 expended, 1,000.00 of administrative expense described as coordination fees, and 6,945.00 encumbered but not yet spent. Its own figures leave 57,381.42 unspent and uncommitted, or 56,381.42 if the administrative expense is counted apart. The report certifies 34,702.54 on hand. That is 42,647.54, the total the FY2024 report certified received, less the 1,000.00 and the 6,945.00. The 22,678.88 received in the year is missing from the balance. The Town has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 80,759.44 received since 2022 (page 1) and 52,094.28 unspent and uncommitted on hand (page 2).
Across FY2025 and FY2026 the Town certified 1,000.00 and 1,557.23 expended, 1,000.00 and 1,000.00 of administrative expense, and 6,945.00 and 9,689.91 encumbered. Subtracting every one of those figures, with the administrative expense counted apart and the FY2025 encumbrance still open, leaves 59,567.30. The certified balance is 7,473.02 lower. Read the way the FY2025 report reads, the gap is wider. No combination of the figures in the four reports yields 52,094.28. The Town has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 1,557.23 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (page 1) and 9,689.91 encumbered but not yet spent (page 2).
It puts 1,000.00 at administrative expense, paid to the program's administrator. Question 17 asks whether the Town funded any programs with settlement funds in the year. The answer is No, and the report carries no program block. The form states that any spending reported at Question 6 must be described for each program funded (page 4). At least 557.23 of the spending is above the administrative figure and is described nowhere. Nothing in the report names what the 9,689.91 is committed to. The Town has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
The opioid account as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
No ledger line is published for this jurisdiction yet.
Vendors, and what paid them before.
What fund carried each payee before the opioid account, and how large the opioid slice is against the whole relationship. Bars share one scale.
No payee is published for this jurisdiction yet.
All documents are public records produced by the jurisdiction. Titles are the documents' own.
No dated event is published for this jurisdiction yet.
No correction received from this jurisdiction. If a figure on this page is wrong, send the record that shows it. The response is published here word for word.
Correct the recordCan opioid settlement money be spent on police cars or license plate readers?
No. Exhibit E of the national settlement lists the approved uses: treatment, recovery, prevention, harm reduction and related supports. Vehicles and surveillance hardware are not among the uses it lists, and state law bars using the funds to replace money a town would otherwise have spent.The approved uses
What did Hammonton tell the State it spent the money on?
No certified program is published for this jurisdiction yet. When a report is captured, each program appears here beside the payments in the account.See the reports
How was this grade computed?
By code, from a published rubric: reporting integrity 50 percent, spending conformity 40 percent, transparency 10 percent, with hard caps for a certified program that has no payee in the books, for an uncertified transfer out, and for a records refusal.The rubric
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The Town of Hammonton has filed four reports on its opioid settlement money, produced no ledger, and certified unspent balances its own figures do not support.