Little Ferry
- 01Certified a movie night as overdose harm reduction699.00
- 02Counted a July 2024 order as FY2024 spending244.90
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Little Ferry has received $56,140.67 in opioid settlement funds and spent $17,812.24 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $244.90.
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
- Educating Students and the Public on the Opioid Crisis
- Recipient
- Borough of Little Ferry
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $11,087.77
filed
- Program name
- Borough of Little Ferry
- Recipient
- Borough of Little Ferry
- Recipient category
- County of Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $2,744.90
- Unspent on hand
- $32,681.29
- Received to date
- $35,625.14
filed
- Program name
- Educating Students and the Public on the Opioid Crisis
- Amount expended
- $4,375.00
- Unspent on hand
- $45,040.05
- Received to date
- $48,347.91
filed
- Program name
- Educating Students and the Public on the Opioid Crisis
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $10,692.34
- Unspent on hand
- $46,116.40
- Received to date
- $56,140.67
2 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 lists a new program named Movies Under the Stars at 699.00 funded and spent, recipient Premiere Productions LLC, which it describes as a movie production vendor (pp8 to 11).
It gives the primary category as Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention and the Schedule B strategies as Prevent Misuse of Opioids and Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms (Harm Reduction). It says opioid educational materials and promotional items were handed out to people at the event, and it reports 100 individuals served. The account paid Premiere Productions LLC 699.00 for Movies Under the Stars 6/27/26 on purchase order 26-00588, check 6847, on 06/26/2026. That payment is the certified figure to the cent. The report names an outdoor movie night and files it under harm reduction. Exhibit E's harm reduction category lists naloxone, overdose response training, syringe service programs and similar services, and a film screening is not among them. No prevention or harm reduction program built on the screening is documented.
program-misclassification · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 2,744.90 expended in the reporting period 7/1/2023 to 6/30/2024 (p1).
It lists one program, Borough of Little Ferry, at 2,744.90 funded and expended, primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention (pp2 to 3). The account paid 2,500.00 in that period, check 2960 for a speaking engagement on 11/07/2023. The other 244.90 is Kaeser & Blair Inc. purchase order 24-00800 for drug abuse supplies. The order was first encumbered on 07/18/2024 and paid by check 4224 on 08/14/2024, after the period closed. The two payments make the certified figure to the cent. The FY2025 report covers 7/1/2024 to 6/30/2025, the period in which the 244.90 was paid. It certifies 4,375.00, which is check 4438 of 10/08/2024 alone, and leaves the 244.90 out. The account paid 4,619.90 in that period. Across the two reports the 244.90 is counted once, in the year before it was ordered.
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-41-800-020, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/07/2023 | 2960 | 23-01186 | MATTHEW BOCCHI · SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT 10/25/2023 | 2,500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 05/20/2024 | TO REALLOCATE TO GRANT FUND (Reference 1285, line 10) | 4,939.00 | Journal · Receipt | ||
| 08/14/2024 | 4224 | 24-00800 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · DRUG ABUSE SUPPLIES | 244.90 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/08/2024 | 4438 | 24-01034 | MATTHEW BOCCHI · OPIOID PRESENTATION 10/29/24 | 4,000.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 10/08/2024 | 4438 | 24-01034 | MATTHEW BOCCHI · TRAVEL FEE 10/29/24 | 375.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/12/2024 | TO RECORD CHAPTER 159 - 2024 OPIOID FUND (Reference 1320, line 2) | 22,366.21 | Journal · Receipt | ||
| 05/28/2025 | TO RECLASSIFY TO GRANT ACCOUNT (Reference 1366, line 10) | 15,742.00 | Journal · Receipt | ||
| 10/14/2025 | 5915 | 25-00967 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · OPIOID PROMOTIONAL ITEMS | 2,157.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/14/2025 | 5915 | 25-00967 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · OPIOID PROMOTIONAL ITEMS SETUP | 228.75 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/14/2025 | 5915 | 25-00967 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · OPIOID PROMOTIONAL ITEMS PROOF | 6.25 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/14/2025 | 5915 | 25-00967 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · OPIOID PROMOTIONAL ITEMS SHIP | 203.90 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/22/2025 | 5934 | 25-01042 | MATTHEW BOCCHI · OPIOID PRESENTATION 10/23/25 | 4,250.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 10/22/2025 | 5934 | 25-01042 | MATTHEW BOCCHI · TRAVEL FEE 10/23/25 | 450.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · CINCH UP BACKPACK | 360.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · SETUP FEES | 217.50 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · CAR AIR FRESHNER | 725.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · 32 OZ STADIUM CUPS | 255.50 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · 11 OZ FULL COLOR MUG | 610.56 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · MARDI GRAS CLASSIC | 260.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 02/10/2026 | 6343 | 26-00114 | KAESER & BLAIR INC. · SHIPPING & HANDLING | 268.88 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/27/2026 | TO RECLASSIFY TO GRANT ACCOUNT (Reference 1479, line 6) | 11,268.00 | Journal · Receipt | ||
| 06/11/2026 | open | 26-00588 | PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS LLC · MOVIES UNDER THE STARS 6/27/26 (blanket control) | 0.01 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| 06/26/2026 | 6847 | 26-00588 | PREMIERE PRODUCTIONS LLC · MOVIES UNDER THE STARS 6/27/26 | 699.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 17,812.24 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 11,575.00 |
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 $5,538.24, 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 Little Ferry tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 6 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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Little Ferry Borough
Little Ferry Borough certified an outdoor movie night to the State as overdose harm reduction and counted a July 2024 order as spending in the year before it was placed.