Fairview
- 01Certified police officer training as youth outreach12,150.00
- 02Certified 12,150.00 FY2025 spend. No FY2025 payment stood.12,150.00
- 03Counted 12,150.00 twice, as spent and as encumbered12,150.00
- 04Reported 31,539.03 more received than its checks show31,539.03
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Fairview has received $110,211.08 in opioid settlement funds and spent $12,150.00 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $12,150.00.
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
- Program name
- Borough of Fairview Educational Outreach Program
- Recipient
- Bergen County
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $33,003.50
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $58,337.53
- Received to date
- $58,337.53
filed
- Program name
- Borough of Fairview Educational Outreach Program
- Amount expended
- $12,150.00
- Unspent on hand
- $70,627.56
- Received to date
- $94,927.56
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $98,061.08
- Received to date
- $110,211.08
7 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 FY2023 report describes one program, the Borough of Fairview Educational Outreach Program.
It names Bergen County as the funding recipient, young adults and teenagers as the target population and Prevention and Education as the category. It says success would be tracked through School Resource Officers and Outreach Volunteers (FY2023 report p2). The FY2025 report certifies 12,150.00 expended on that program in the reporting period, no modifications and 25 participants served (FY2025 report p2). One payment makes the figure. Purchase order 25-01497, dated 07/17/2025 with requisition number 0, buys Opioid Training for Officers from ZSchool for 12,150.00 and ships to the Fairview Police Department (06/10/2026 production p4). Check 32966 paid it the same day from appropriation reserve 01-2030-41-7092-021 (ZSchool vendor history). No record produced shows a payment to Bergen County or to any youth program. The same FY2025 report answers its goals question with Training through Seton Hall University for PD (FY2025 report p1). Seton Hall University was paid nothing. Both checks written to it were voided (Seton Hall vendor history). No record produced names the course or who attended.
false-characterization · 5 documents · 09/25/2026The FY2025 report covers 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025 and certifies 12,150.00 expended (FY2025 report p1).
The only check written on the opioid accounts produced for that period is Seton Hall University check 32720 for 12,150.00 on 06/05/2025. It was voided on 07/08/2025. A second Seton Hall check, 32881, was written on 07/08/2025 and voided on 07/17/2025 (Seton Hall vendor history). The payment that stood is ZSchool check 32966 for 12,150.00 on 07/17/2025, in the FY2026 period (ZSchool vendor history). The report was last updated on 09/24/2025, after both voids and after the ZSchool payment (FY2025 report p2).
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 09/26/2026The FY2025 report certifies 12,150.00 expended and another 12,150.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent (FY2025 report p1).
Its unspent figure, 70,627.56, is its cumulative receipts of 94,927.56 less both amounts. Only 12,150.00 has left the account. The encumbered figure is Seton Hall University purchase order 2500601 of 03/13/2025 for 12,150.00. Its lines name only invoice 1171932. Both checks written on that order were voided. ZSchool was paid 12,150.00 for officer training on 07/17/2025. The account detail for reserve 01-2030-41-7092-021 still carries the order. Printed on 06/10/2026 and again on 08/31/2026, it shows Encum 12,150.00, Paid or Ch 12,150.00, Balance 3,221.00 and Cancelled 0.00 against a budget of 27,521.00. No entry on the account is dated after 07/17/2025.
self-contradiction · 4 documents · 09/26/2026The FY2025 report certifies 94,927.56 of settlement money received since 2022 (FY2025 report p1).
The Borough produced 26 opioid settlement checks payable to it, dated 12/29/2022 to 10/31/2025, totaling 63,388.53 (06/10/2026 check copies pp2 to 31). The certified figure is 31,539.03 higher than every check produced, including five dated after the report period closed. The gap opens in the first report. The FY2023 report certifies 33,003.50 received as of 06/30/2023 (FY2023 report p1). The opioid checks dated in 2022 and 2023 total 11,698.88. The FY2025 figure for the year itself, 36,590.03, does tie. It equals the 14 checks dated in 2024 and the two deposits the Cash Receipts report lists, 1,738.40 on 09/20/2024 and 34,851.63 on 11/14/2024 (check copies p8). The records produced do not show where the rest of the certified receipts came from.
self-contradiction · 4 documents · 09/25/2026With its opioid settlement checks the Borough produced two checks that are not opioid money.
One is a 17,414.03 payment from the PCB Settlement Fund in City of Long Beach v. Monsanto Company, dated 04/13/2023 (check copies p4). The other is a U.S. Treasury check for 183.90 dated 03/11/2025 and marked F-941 REF 12/2024 (p31). The 2024 budget line Opioid NOAT I is 27,521.00 (06/10/2026 production p1). The three National Opioids Settlement checks dated in 2022 and 2023, 4,348.91, 2,380.02 and 3,378.04, plus the Monsanto check make 27,521.00 to the cent. The 2024 Opioid NOAT II line of 1,591.91 equals the two NOAT II checks, 731.42 and 860.49. The 2026 budget carries an Opioid Settlement line of 15,283.52 (check copies p23). The seven opioid checks dated in 2025 total 15,099.62. Adding the 183.90 Treasury check makes 15,283.52. The 12,150.00 officer training was paid from the reserve of the 27,521.00 line. The budget does not itemize either line. The FY2026 report, page 1, certifies 15,283.52 received from 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026, the same figure as the 2026 budget line. That the lines were built from these checks is this project's reading of the arithmetic.
commingled-funds · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report lists the Borough of Fairview Educational Outreach Program, funded 12/01/2023 at 10,000.00, launched 12/15/2023, recipient Bergen County, with funds disbursed upon commencement of the program 12/15/23 (FY2023 report p2).
The FY2024 report covers 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024, which includes those dates. It certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and no programs funded (FY2024 report pp1 to 2). The Borough produced no ledger for 2023. No record produced shows a payment to Bergen County. The FY2025 report then carries the same program forward and attaches the 12,150.00 officer training to it.
phantom-program · 4 documents · 09/26/2026The FY2026 report, page 1, certifies 0.00 spent from 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026.
Question 17, page 3, answers No to funding any program. The one payment that stood on the opioid accounts falls in that period. ZSchool check 32966 paid 12,150.00 on 07/17/2025 on purchase order 25-01497, Opioid Training for Officers, from appropriation reserve 01-2030-41-7092-021 (ZSchool vendor history, account detail printed 08/31/2026). The Seton Hall University check 32720 of 06/05/2025 was voided on 07/08/2025. Its reissue, check 32881, was voided on 07/17/2025. The FY2025 report had already certified the 12,150.00 as spent, in a year when no payment stood. The training is reported in the year before it was paid and left out of the year it was paid. The program page of the FY2026 report, page 4, reprints the FY2025 update, last updated 09/24/2025.
zero-certification · 5 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Phantom programs · Zero certification
The ledger, as printed.
Account 01-2010-41-7092-021, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/20/2024 | MIS | UNAPPRO GRANT RES OPIOID FUNDS | 1,738.40 | Receipt · Unverified | |
| 11/14/2024 | FVW 850 | UNAPPRO GRANT RES OPIOID FUNDS | 34,851.63 | Receipt · Unverified | |
| 03/13/2025 | open | 2500601 | SETON HALL UNIVERSITY (vendor 11679) · PO line, INVOICE 1171932 (open encumbrance, both checks on this PO voided) | 12,150.00 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 07/17/2025 | 32966 | 2501497 | ZSCHOOL (Colts Neck NJ) · OPIOID TRAINING FOR OFFICERS (PO 25-01497, ship to: FAIRVIEW POLICE DEPARTMENT) | 12,150.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| Total paid | 12,150.00 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 0.00 |
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 $12,150.00, 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 Fairview tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 2 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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Fairview paid 12,150.00 for police officer training, reported it to the State as a youth outreach program, certified it as spent in a year in which no payment stood, counted it twice, and certified 31,539.03 more in settlement receipts than the checks it produced.