New Milford
- 01Certified police salaries as CIT and Alliance programs8,914.79
- 02FY2024 report left out 970.90 of police overtime paid970.90
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
New Milford has received $76,765.83 in opioid settlement funds and spent $27,270.49 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $970.90.
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
- D.E.A.'s National Drug Take Back
- Recipient
- New Milford Police Department
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $15,492.00
filed
- Program name
- DEA Drug Takeback
- Recipient
- Borough of New Milford
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $2,617.62
- Unspent on hand
- $51,807.30
- Received to date
- $46,395.97
filed
- Program name
- Alumni in Recovery Speaker Presentations
- Recipient
- Alumni in Recovery
- Recipient category
- Community Based Organizations/Non-Governmental Organizations
- Programs listed
- 7
- Amount expended
- $13,612.78
- Unspent on hand
- $48,266.79
- Received to date
- $64,497.19
filed
- Program name
- Crisis Intervention Team Training
- Recipient
- New Milford Police Department
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 4
- Amount expended
- $10,069.79
- Unspent on hand
- $30,465.64
- Received to date
- $76,765.83
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 certifies three programs whose spent figures add to 8,914.79.
Crisis Intervention Team Training is a new program at 5,298.47, recipient New Milford Police Department, described as a 5 day 40 hour certification for first responders, funded and launched 12/02/2025, with 5 individuals served and the primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention (pages 4 to 6). Police Participation in Municipal Alliance is updated at 3,296.84 (page 6) and DEA Drug Takeback at 319.48 (page 7), both for 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026. The books show one entry behind all three. A journal dated 12/02/2025, POLICE SW OFFICER OPIOID PROG PARTICIPATION, charged 8,914.79 to settlement account 01-2910-99-7800. The same day the same 8,914.79 posted as a credit, OPIOID PROG PARTICIPATION REIMB, to the police salary and wages regular line 01-2010-25-2401-136. The Police Department's request of 12/02/2025 behind the journal lists 23 lines of officer hours. They are CIT class days for three officers at 3,616.32, L.E.A.D. 5th grade classes at 2,643.51, a Project Graduation night detail at 2,226.52, a Take Back detail at 319.48 and an A.D.A.M. event at 108.96. Of the 8,914.79, 8,126.31 is officer time dated 01/28/2025 to 06/24/2025, before the reporting year began and before the program's launch date. The report describes a certification course and police participation in the Alliance and never says salary. The books show a reimbursement of police salary costs, credited to the Borough's own police salary line. A program launched on 12/02/2025 cannot be officer time worked in the first half of 2025.
program-misclassification · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 2,617.62 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (page 1).
That is DEA Drug Takeback at 691.08 and Police Participation in Municipal Alliance at 1,926.54, funded 12/06/2023 (pages 2 to 4). The settlement account paid 3,588.52 in that period. Check 27450 paid the Borough 272.20 on 10/11/2023 for a police detail at the 04/22/2023 Take Back Day. A journal on 12/06/2023 charged 2,625.24. A journal on 05/07/2024 charged 691.08. The 2,625.24 reimbursed officer overtime that the Police Department listed on 11/30/2023 and asked to have reimbursed into its overtime account 01-2010-25-2401-131. The seven lines of that request dated 07/08/2023 to 10/28/2023 sum to 1,926.54, the certified program figure. Its three lines dated 04/20/2023, 05/11/2023 and 06/15/2023, 232.90 each and 698.70 in all, were left out. The FY2023 report listed the 272.20 detail as funded but not yet disbursed and certified 0.00 spent. No report certifies the 272.20 or the 698.70 as spent in any year. The FY2025 report counts the other way. It certifies the whole 6,022.26 request paid on 11/18/2024, which includes 5,913.52 of officer time dated 03/03/2024 to 06/19/2024. The four reports certify 26,300.19 spent in all. The account paid 27,270.49 through 05/28/2026, which is 970.30 more, the 970.90 less the 0.60 the FY2025 report certifies above its books.
misreported-expenditure · 9 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Year-end salary reclass
The ledger, as printed.
Account 01-2910-99-7800, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/11/2023 | 27450 | 231566 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · REIMB D.E.A.'S NATIONAL DRUG TAKE BACK DAY | 272.20 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 12/06/2023 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · POLICE OT DRUG ALLIANCE | 2,625.24 | Paid · Non-conforming | ||
| 05/07/2024 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · CHRG POL OT NAT'L DRUG TAKE BACK | 691.08 | Paid · Non-conforming | ||
| 11/18/2024 | 30107 | 241833 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · REIMB. D.E.A.'S NATIONAL DRUG TAKE BACK DAY | 502.60 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/18/2024 | 30110 | 241739 | NJ STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION · PEER LEADERSHIP CONF. 2/7-2/9/25 H.S. STUDENT | 1,155.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 11/18/2024 | 30126 | 241767 | THE CENTER FOR ALCOHOL & DRUG · NARCAN TRAINING FOR 20 PARTICIPANTS | 500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/18/2024 | 30234 | 241884 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · REGISTERED 5 POLICE OFFICER-SETON HALL UNIV. | 1,575.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/18/2024 | 30235 | 241923 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · NMPD PARTICIPATION DURING 2024 OPIOID | 6,022.26 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/27/2025 | 30626 | 241796 | ZSCHOOL, LLC · INV.000655 PRACTICAL STRATEGIES FOR | 2,250.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 01/27/2025 | 30680 | 242144 | AMAZON CAPITAL SERVICES, INC. · INV.1XC9-FJL9-4M4A PELICAN CASES | 107.32 | Paid · Conforming |
| 06/09/2025 | 31604 | 250993 | ALUMNI IN RECOVERY · 3 ALUMNI IN RECOVERY SUBSTANCE USE | 1,500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/24/2025 | 32717 | 251806 | NJ STATE ELKS ASSOCIATION · INV. 2026-002 PEER LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE | 1,155.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 12/02/2025 | BOROUGH OF NEW MILFORD · POLICE SW OFFICER OPIOID PROG PARTICIPATION | 8,914.79 | Paid · Non-conforming | ||
| Total paid | 27,270.49 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 5,932.32 |
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 $2,310.00, 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 New Milford tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 14 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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New Milford Borough
New Milford certified a police salary reimbursement to the State as a crisis intervention course, police work with the Municipal Alliance and a drug take-back day, and three quarters of everything its settlement fund has spent went back to the Borough's own police payroll lines.