Englewood
- 01Certified two Health salaries as one prevention specialist98,250.00
- 02Certified AEDs for youth coaches as overdose prevention2,281.96
- 03Paid two jobs from the fund after federal grants ended98,250.00
- 04FY2024 and FY2025 reports overstate spending by 877.59877.59
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Englewood has received $1,279,562.09 in opioid settlement funds and spent $122,551.02 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $2,370.00.
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
- $270,355.69
filed
- Program name
- Community First! Stop the ODs: Opioid Town Hall
- Recipient
- Englewood Health Department
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $2,123.37
- Unspent on hand
- $807,547.06
- Received to date
- $809,670.43
filed
- Program name
- Narcan Trainings
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $5,481.96
- Unspent on hand
- $960,001.94
- Received to date
- $966,729.68
filed
- Program name
- Opioid Prevention Specialist (OPS)
- Recipient
- Englewood Health Department
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $107,505.00
- Unspent on hand
- $1,162,581.76
- Received to date
- $1,279,562.09
5 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 FY2026 report certifies a new program, Opioid Prevention Specialist (OPS), at 99,705.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, recipient Englewood Health Department, primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, launched 5/1/2025, 800 individuals served (pp4 to 6).
Its Q22 says that in addition to outreach materials and CPR training supplies the program funds the salary of one employee (p7). The books show two salaries. Journal reference 627 of 11/06/2025 charged 66,000.00, described as a reclass of the first employee's 2025 salary from budget, and 65,000.00, described the same way for the second, to the opioid account G-02-40-766-000-000 and credited both to Health - Regular Pay 5-01-27-330-000-111. Journal reference 634 of 12/02/2025 moved 16,500.00 and 16,250.00 to the NJ ACCHO Grant account. The net, 98,250.00, is 98.5 percent of the certified program. The City's 2025 check register shows 66,000.00 and 65,000.00 as the two employees' full 2025 regular pay. The City Manager's memo of 05/07/2025 identifies the two positions as the grant funded Local Health Outreach Coordinator and Infectious Disease Preparedness Generalist and directs that their job descriptions be amended to add an opioid component. The job descriptions the City produced add the title Opioid Prevention Specialist to each and list the COVID-19 and communicable disease duties first. The Health Department roster the City produced in July 2026 gives their payroll titles as "INFECTIOUS DIS PREP GENERALIST" and "HEALTH OUTREACH COORD", and lists the second employee as resigned. The FY2025 report had told the State that settlement funding financed two positions under the combined titles (p2). The FY2026 spending certified as one employee's salary is the pay of two existing public health positions moved onto the fund.
false-characterization · 8 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies a new program, Operation Jumpstart, at 2,281.96 expended, recipient Englewood Parks and Rec, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, Schedule B strategy Prevent Misuse of Opioids (pp2 to 3).
It gives the primary problem as "Making athletes and coaches understanding safety in sports" and describes the program in one line, "AED's were provided to sports coaches in order to serve the youth." Its stated outcome is that youth athletes and coaches leave "fully aware of signs and symptoms of possible cardiac arrest." The books show the purchase. American AED order 25-01521 for HeartStart pads at 690.00 and a carrying case at 1,032.00, paid by check 112833 on 06/05/2025, and Amazon Capital Services order 25-01735 for AED pads and batteries at 559.96, paid by check 112920 on 06/18/2025, make the certified figure to the cent. The report names the equipment and describes cardiac arrest, then files it under overdose prevention. Defibrillators treat cardiac arrest. No overdose program using them is documented, and defibrillator supplies are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
program-misclassification · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The City Manager's memo of 05/07/2025 says the two Health Department positions were grant funded and that the federal government cancelled the grants on 03/24/2025.
It says the City committed to fund the positions from its temporary budget through 04/30/2025, when pay at the federal grant level ended. From 05/01/2025, at a salary of 60,000.00 each, their compensation is being charged to the Opioid Trust Fund. It directs that the job descriptions be amended to add an opioid education or investigation component and that each position run at least one opioid activity a month. It says the Health Department must budget for both positions if they continue after 03/31/2026. The ledger shows how the charge was made. Journal reference 627 of 11/06/2025 credited Health - Regular Pay 5-01-27-330-000-111 with 66,000.00 and 65,000.00 and charged them to the opioid account, described as 2025 Salary from Budget. The 2025 check register shows those figures are each employee's full 2025 regular pay, including 26,000.00 and 25,000.00 paid at the grant-level rate for 01/01/2025 to 04/30/2025. Journal reference 634 of 12/02/2025 moved 32,750.00 of it to the NJ ACCHO Grant account. A Health Department email of the same day calls those amounts January to March 2026 salary. The 98,250.00 left on the fund is 18,250.00 more than the 80,000.00 the two earned from 05/01/2025 to 12/31/2025. It is 84.3 percent of the 116,602.74 the account paid through 06/30/2026. No record of the monthly opioid activities was produced. The settlement fund now pays two positions that federal grants and the City budget paid before.
funding-source-substitution · 6 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies a Narcan Trainings program at 2,000.00 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p5) and 2,123.37 expended in all (p1).
The account paid 1,245.78 in that period. The only set of whole orders on the account that totals 2,000.00 is The Center for Alcohol's Narcan trainings at 1,000.00, paid by check 600 on 05/08/2024, Children's Aid and Family Services' Narcan training of 6/17/24 at 500.00, ordered 07/10/2024 and paid by check 1163 on 08/07/2024, and Glass Gardens order 24-00706 for opioid program supplies at 500.00. Of that order 79.69 and 42.72 were paid in 03/2024 and 04/2024, and 377.59 was still open on 06/10/2026. The FY2025 report counts the same 500.00 Children's Aid payment again, as the Narcan Trainings update for 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025 (p6), and its 5,481.96 total includes it (p1). Together the two reports certify 7,605.33 spent. The account paid 6,727.74 through 06/30/2025. The 877.59 difference is the 500.00 counted twice and the 377.59 never paid. The FY2025 unspent figure, 960,001.94 (p1), is the 966,729.68 received less the 6,727.74 actually paid, so it follows the books and not the two certified totals.
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 107,505.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1) and 0.00 encumbered (p2).
The account paid 109,875.00 net in that period. Allied Training and Emergency was paid 2,250.00 by check 113616 on 09/17/2025. Journals 627 and 634 put 98,250.00 of salary on the account. Children's Aid and Family Services was paid 1,575.00 by check 140256 on 05/20/2026 and 7,800.00 by check 140600 on 06/24/2026. The 2,370.00 difference equals the Allied order the FY2025 report certified as encumbered (FY2025 p1), of which 2,250.00 was paid and 120.00 voided. The same FY2026 report certifies 1,162,581.76 on hand (p2). That is the 1,279,562.09 it certifies as received less 116,980.33, the paid and charged total the audit trail printed on 06/10/2026. It equals the 116,602.74 the account paid through 06/30/2026 plus the 377.59 Glass Gardens line open since 03/07/2024. The on-hand figure counts the 2,370.00 the spent figure leaves out and the 377.59 the encumbered figure leaves out. The three figures cannot all be true. The produced records show journals only through 06/10/2026.
self-contradiction · 6 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Year-end salary reclass
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-40-766-000-000, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/20/2023 | 103228 | 23-03159 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · NAPKINS, COOKIES, CHIPS | 65.44 | Paid · Unverified |
| 12/20/2023 | 103228 | 23-03159 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · VINYL GLOVES | 5.69 | Paid · Unverified |
| 12/20/2023 | 103228 | 23-03159 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · DELI FINGER SANDWICH PLATTER | 52.24 | Paid · Unverified |
| 03/07/2024 | open | 24-00706 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · OPIOID PROGRAM SUPPLIES | 377.59 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 03/20/2024 | 181 | 24-00706 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · OPIOID PROGRAM SUPPLIES | 79.69 | Paid · Unverified |
| 04/03/2024 | 309 | 24-00706 | GLASS GARDENS, INC. · OPIOID PROGRAM SUPPLIES | 42.72 | Paid · Unverified |
| 05/08/2024 | 600 | 24-00949 | THE CENTER FOR ALCOHOL · NARCAN TRAININGS | 1,000.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 08/07/2024 | 1163 | 24-01891 | Children's Aid & Family · NARCAN TRAINING 6/17/24 | 500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 12/18/2024 | 111573 | 24-02929 | MPOWERED PARENT LLC · OPIATE/OVERDOSE PRESENTATION | 2,500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 05/07/2025 | 112624 | 25-01158 | Children's Aid & Family · TEEN ED SERIES: DRUGS | 200.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 06/05/2025 | 112833 | 25-01521 | AMERICAN AED · HeartStart Pads II | 690.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/05/2025 | 112833 | 25-01521 | AMERICAN AED · Carrying Case | 1,032.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/18/2025 | 112920 | 25-01735 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES · AED PADS AND BATTERIES | 559.96 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/17/2025 | 113616 | 25-01518 | ALLIED TRAINING AND EMERGENCY · Adult CPR Manikin | 800.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/17/2025 | 113616 | 25-01518 | ALLIED TRAINING AND EMERGENCY · Infant CPR manikins | 700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/17/2025 | 113616 | 25-01518 | ALLIED TRAINING AND EMERGENCY · AHA video | 100.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/17/2025 | 113616 | 25-01518 | ALLIED TRAINING AND EMERGENCY · 4 pack BVM infant | 200.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/17/2025 | 113616 | 25-01518 | ALLIED TRAINING AND EMERGENCY · AED Trainer | 450.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 11/06/2025 | ref 627 | Reclass Joshi 2025 Salary from Budget | 66,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming | |
| 11/06/2025 | ref 627 | Reclass Rodriguez 2025 Salary frm Budget | 65,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming | |
| 12/02/2025 | ref 634 | Reclass Joshi 3 months to NJACCHO | -16,500.00 | Reversal · Non-conforming | |
| 12/02/2025 | ref 634 | Reclass Rodriguez 3 months to NJACCHO | -16,250.00 | Reversal · Non-conforming | |
| 05/20/2026 | 140256 | 25-03313 | Children's Aid & Family · TEEN ED: DRUG PRESENTATION | 1,575.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 05/27/2026 | 26-01568 | Children's Aid & Family · YOUTH DRUG EDUCATION | 7,800.00 | Journal · Conforming | |
| 06/24/2026 | 140600 | 26-01568 | Children's Aid & Family · YOUTH DRUG EDUCATION | 7,800.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 09/09/2026 | 141081 | 26-02527 | BERGEN CARPET & FLOORING INC. · Basement Project | 5,948.28 | Paid · Unverified |
| Total paid | 155,301.02 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 13,575.00 |
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.
Full width is $10,075.00, the largest payee total. Solid is the opioid account. Hatched is every other fund.
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 Englewood tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 7 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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Englewood
Englewood moved two Health Department salaries onto its opioid settlement fund after their federal grants ended and certified them to the State as one opioid prevention specialist, and it certified defibrillator supplies for youth coaches as overdose prevention.