Elmwood Park
- 01FY2025 report certifies 30,585.00 of admin, then says none30,585.00
- 02FY2023 report certifies 15,210.00 spent and says it was not15,210.00
- 03FY2024 report reserves 53,999.15 more than it received53,999.15
- 04FY2026 balance is 6,097.25 off the Borough's own figures6,097.25
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Elmwood Park has received $131,902.52 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
- Program name
- Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction
- Recipient
- Elmwood Park
- Amount expended
- $15,210.00
- Received to date
- $27,355.47
filed
- Program name
- Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $81,354.02
- Received to date
- $108,709.49
filed
- Program name
- Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction
- Amount expended
- $17,145.00
- Unspent on hand
- $58,179.33
- Received to date
- $116,303.33
filed
- Program name
- Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $66,481.86
- Received to date
- $131,902.52
4 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 at Q8 that 30,585.00 was spent on program administrative expenses between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025.
At Q8a, asked for the details, it answers "No administrative expenses, all spent on speaking engagements." The same report certifies 17,145.00 expended in the period at Q6, and the one program block, Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction, reports 17,145.00. The administrative figure is 13,440.00 larger than all the spending the report certifies. Its Q9 balance, 58,179.33, follows from neither reading. The report's own 116,303.33 received since 2022, less the 15,210.00 certified for FY2023 and the 17,145.00 for FY2025, leaves 83,948.33. Less the 30,585.00 as well, it leaves 53,363.33. The Borough has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report certifies 27,355.47 received and 15,210.00 expended as of 06/30/2023.
Its statement of goals on the same page says "The funds have been encumbered but not yet spent." Its one program, Community Policing "Get the word out" opioid addiction, is funded at 15,210.00 with a launch date of 10/01/23, after the period closed. Asked how often funds are disbursed to the program, the report answers "Haven't commenced." Clients seen as of 06/30/2023 are N/A. Money cannot be spent on a program that has not started and has received no disbursement. The Borough has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 108,709.49 received since 2022 and 0.00 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024.
At Q7 it certifies 81,354.62 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent. At Q9 it certifies 81,354.02 unspent and uncommitted on hand. The two figures total 162,708.64, which is 53,999.15 more than everything the Borough says it received. After the 15,210.00 the FY2023 report certifies as spent, 93,499.49 remained. Money cannot be both committed and uncommitted. The Q9 figure is the year's receipts to the cent, and the Q7 figure is 0.60 above them. The same report answers No when asked whether it funded any programs in the year. The Borough has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 131,902.52 received since 2022, 0.00 expended and 0.00 administrative between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, 26,968.41 encumbered and 66,481.86 unspent and uncommitted on hand.
The Borough's four reports certify 15,210.00 expended for FY2023, 0.00 for FY2024 and 17,145.00 for FY2025. Received less that spending and the FY2026 encumbrance leaves 72,579.11, which is 6,097.25 more than the certified balance. Counting the 30,585.00 of FY2025 administration as well leaves 41,994.11, which is 24,487.75 less. The certified balance follows from neither. At Q8a, the details of administrative expenses, the report lists "AEDs 9 units" beside a Q8 of 0.00. The Borough has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 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 Elmwood Park tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 4 programs to the Department of Human Services. Each program, its recipient and its amount are reproduced above, 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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Elmwood Park Borough
Elmwood Park Borough has reported receiving 131,902.52 in opioid settlement money through 06/30/2026, has produced no ledger, and has filed four reports whose own figures do not agree with each other.