Lyndhurst Township
- 01Reported a police course and arcade trip as Alliance work14,353.12
- 02Reported 21,839.07 spent or committed as still on hand21,839.07
- 03Reported nothing encumbered with a 7,485.95 order open7,485.95
- 04Moved a yearly Alliance bill from its own lines to the fund4,126.70
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Lyndhurst Township has received $134,461.96 in opioid settlement funds and spent $17,203.12 of it.
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
- Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance - Anti -Substance Abuse Programs
- Recipient
- Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $27,135.37
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $97,029.84
- Received to date
- $97,029.84
filed
- Program name
- Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance - Anti Substance Abuse Programs
- Amount expended
- $14,353.12
- Unspent on hand
- $91,132.47
- Received to date
- $112,971.54
filed
- Program name
- Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance - Anti Substance Abuse Programs
- Amount expended
- $2,850.00
- Unspent on hand
- $131,611.96
- Received to date
- $134,461.96
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 FY2025 report certifies 14,353.12 expended (p1) and puts all of it in one program, Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance Anti Substance Abuse Programs, with 229 participants served (p2).
The FY2023 report set that program up with the Lyndhurst Municipal Alliance as recipient (p2). The account paid three things in the FY2025 window. Check 2696 for 6,300.00 on 05/06/2025, purchase order 25-01100, pays the Township's own DEA account back for a Seton Hall University certificate course for 14 police officers, billed to the Police Department on invoice INV-000719. The order reads REALLOCATE DEA EXPENDITURE and SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHARGED TO GRANT. Check 2613 for 6,776.42 on 05/06/2025, purchase order 25-01089, pays Dave & Buster's for a L.E.A.D. graduation trip. Check 2413 for 1,276.70 on 03/25/2025 pays part of a Unite Corporation Municipal Alliance event invoice. The three payments make the certified figure to the cent. The report names no police course and no graduation trip. 13,076.42 of what it certifies as the Alliance program paid Police Department costs.
program-misclassification · 6 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 131,611.96 of unspent and uncommitted funds on hand (p2).
It certifies 134,461.96 received since 2022 and 2,850.00 spent in FY2026 (p1). 134,461.96 less 2,850.00 is 131,611.96, the certified figure to the cent. The FY2025 report certified 14,353.12 spent and 7,485.95 encumbered (p1). The account paid the 14,353.12 on checks 2413, 2613 and 2696 between 03/25/2025 and 05/06/2025. Dave & Buster's purchase order 25-01090 for 7,485.95 was opened on the account on 04/15/2025 and was still open on 08/31/2026. The two amounts total 21,839.07, the figure the account print of 05/29/2026 shows as paid and charged. On the reports' own receipts and the books, 134,461.96 less 17,203.12 paid and 7,485.95 committed leaves 109,772.89 at 06/30/2026. The certified figure is 21,839.07 higher. It counts money already spent or committed as still on hand.
unspent-misstated · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2026 report certifies 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p2).
The FY2025 report certified 7,485.95 encumbered (p1). That figure is Dave & Buster's purchase order 25-01090, LEAD GRADUATION TRIP 5/15/25, opened on the settlement account on 04/15/2025. The account print of 05/29/2026 shows the order open. The Budget Transaction Audit Trail for 09/01/2025 to 08/31/2026 shows no cancellation of it. The vendor report for 01/01/2018 to 08/31/2026 shows it open and unpaid on 08/31/2026. The order sat open on the account for the whole FY2026 period. The report certifies nothing encumbered.
misreported-encumbrance · 5 documents · 10/04/2026Unite Corporation bills the Township for a Municipal Alliance event every year.
The vendor report for 01/01/2018 to 08/31/2026 shows where each bill was charged. Purchase order 22-00301, 2,750.00, check 34288 on 04/13/2022, went to Police OE Municipal Alliance. Purchase orders 23-01410 and 24-00548, 2,850.00 each, checks 37 on 05/09/2023 and 42 on 03/12/2024, went to the Municipal Alliance Reserve. Purchase order 25-00806 split invoice 315897494 on 03/25/2025, 1,573.30 to the reserve on check 1005 and 1,276.70 to the settlement account on check 2413. Purchase order 26-01656, titled POLICE- MUNICIPAL ALLIANCE, put the whole 2,850.00 on the settlement account, check 5136 on 06/03/2026. The FY2025 and FY2026 reports certify both settlement payments. The same charge was carried by Township money for three years before the settlement took it over. Settlement money must add to local spending, not replace it.
supplantation · 5 documents · 10/03/2026The account paid Dave & Buster's 6,776.42 on purchase order 25-01089, LEAD GRADUATION TRIP 5/16/25, check 2613 on 05/06/2025.
A second order, 25-01090, LEAD GRADUATION TRIP 5/15/25, has held 7,485.95 open on the account since 04/15/2025 and was still open on 08/31/2026. The FY2025 report certifies the payment inside the Municipal Alliance program and the open order as its encumbered figure (p1). The next year the Township paid the L.E.A.D. graduation trip of 05/18/2026, 7,457.36, check 4785 on 04/14/2026, from its own Police OE L.E.A.D. Expenses line. No record produced describes the L.E.A.D. program, the graduation or who attended. A graduation trip to an arcade is not among the uses Exhibit E lists. No evidence-based program that an arcade outing serves is documented, and no listed use covers it.
non-conforming-spending · 3 documents · 10/04/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-700-23-701-000, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/25/2025 | 2413 | 25-00806 | UNITE CORPORATION · MUNICIPAL ALLIANCE EVENT | 1,276.70 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/15/2025 | open | 25-01090 | DAVE & BUSTER'S · LEAD GRADUATION TRIP 5/15/25 | 7,485.95 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| 05/06/2025 | 2613 | 25-01089 | DAVE & BUSTER'S · LEAD GRADUATION TRIP 5/16/25 | 6,776.42 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/06/2025 | 2696 | 25-01100 | TOWNSHIP OF LYNDHURST · REALLOCATE DEA EXPENDITURE | 6,300.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 06/03/2026 | 5136 | 26-01656 | UNITE CORPORATION · POLICE- MUNICIPAL ALLIANCE | 2,850.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 17,203.12 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 6,300.00 |
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 $6,776.42, 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 Lyndhurst Township 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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Lyndhurst Township
Lyndhurst Township certified a police officer course and a L.E.A.D. graduation trip to Dave & Buster's to the State as its Municipal Alliance program, moved a yearly Alliance bill onto the settlement fund, and reported 21,839.07 it had spent or committed as still on hand.