North Arlington
- 01Reported 52,063.52 less on hand than its own figures give52,063.52
- 02Counted one 10,250.00 program as spent and still committed10,250.00
- 03Reported 3,272.70 more on hand than it had ever received3,272.70
- 04Reported 695.09 more on hand than receipts less spending695.09
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
North Arlington has received $80,869.83 in opioid settlement funds. No ledger has been produced.
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
- $5,124.21
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $43,206.40
- Received to date
- $39,933.70
filed
- Program name
- MJPB CONSULTING SPEAKING ENGAGE
- Recipient
- NORTH ARLINGTON
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $10,250.00
- Unspent on hand
- $52,758.61
- Received to date
- $62,313.52
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $18,556.31
- Received to date
- $80,869.83
4 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, page 1, certifies 18,556.31 received between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 and 80,869.83 received since the distribution began in 2022.
It certifies 0.00 expended and 0.00 encumbered in the period, and answers No when asked whether it funded any programs. Page 2 then certifies 18,556.31 unspent and uncommitted on hand, the year's receipts to the cent. The only spending the Borough has ever certified is the 10,250.00 in its FY2025 report. By the reports' own figures, 80,869.83 received less 10,250.00 spent leaves 70,619.83 on hand. The certified balance is 52,063.52 lower. That is exactly the money received through 06/30/2025, 62,313.52, less the 10,250.00. The FY2025 report had certified 52,758.61 on hand a year earlier. With nothing spent or committed in FY2026, the report drops every dollar received before 07/01/2025 from the balance. No ledger has been produced to show where it went.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report, page 1, certifies 10,250.00 expended and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025.
Page 2 answers No when asked whether the Borough funded any new programs that year. It then lists 2025 Fiscal Program 1, MJPB Consulting Speaking Engage, school speaking engagements, funded 06/30/2025, the last day of the period. The program block reports 10,250.00 of funding, 10,250.00 expended and 10,250.00 encumbered or appropriated. The same 10,250.00 cannot be both spent and still committed, and the encumbered figure contradicts the 0.00 on page 1. Page 3 gives the launch date as 10/23/2025, almost four months after the period closed, and describes the disbursement schedule as work in progress. The FY2026 report, which covers 10/23/2025, certifies 0.00 expended and no programs funded. The Borough has produced no ledger, so when or whether the 10,250.00 was paid cannot be tested.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report, page 1, certifies 34,809.49 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024, 0.00 of interest, and 39,933.70 received since the distribution began in 2022.
That is the 5,124.21 the FY2023 report certifies as of 06/30/2023 plus the year's 34,809.49. The report certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative. It then certifies 43,206.40 unspent and uncommitted on hand. That is 3,272.70 more than every dollar the Borough reports receiving, with no interest reported to account for it.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report, page 1, certifies 22,379.82 received between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, 0.00 of interest, and 62,313.52 received since 2022.
It certifies 10,250.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative in the period. Nothing was certified as spent in FY2023 or FY2024. Received less spent is 52,063.52. The report certifies 52,758.61 unspent and uncommitted on hand, 695.09 more than the Borough's own figures allow.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The ledger, as printed.
The opioid account as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
No ledger line is published for this jurisdiction yet.
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.
No payee is published for this jurisdiction yet.
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 North Arlington tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 1 program 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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North Arlington Borough
North Arlington Borough reported 80,869.83 in opioid settlement money received and 10,250.00 spent, then told the State in FY2026 that it had 18,556.31 left, and it has produced no ledger to show where the rest went.