Palisades Park
- 01Reported every dollar ever received as still on hand6,044.89
- 02Two reports put more on hand than it ever received3,165.54
- 03Certified 4,161.18 spent, then 0.00 for the same year4,161.18
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Palisades Park has received $43,139.71 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
- Program name
- Opioid education and prevention
- Recipient
- Borough of Palisades Park
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $26,625.62
filed
- Program name
- Opioid education and prevention
- Amount expended
- $4,161.18
- Unspent on hand
- $40,302.23
- Received to date
- $37,136.69
filed
- Program name
- Opioid education and prevention
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $44,421.54
- Received to date
- $41,256.00
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $43,139.71
- Received to date
- $43,139.71
3 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 1,883.71 received in the year, 0.00 of interest, 43,139.71 received since the distribution began in 2022 and 0.00 spent (p1).
It certifies 1,883.71 appropriated or encumbered and not yet spent, and 43,139.71 of unspent and uncommitted money the Borough currently has on hand (p2). The on hand figure equals every dollar the report says the Borough has received. The FY2024 report certifies 4,161.18 spent between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1). On the reports' own figures, 43,139.71 received less 4,161.18 spent and 1,883.71 encumbered leaves 37,094.82 unspent and uncommitted. The certified figure is 6,044.89 more. The encumbered and on hand figures together come to 45,023.42, which is 1,883.71 more than everything received. The report answers No to funding any program in the year (p4). The Borough has not produced a ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 10,511.07 received in the year, 0.00 of interest and 37,136.69 received since 2022, which is the 26,625.62 the FY2023 report gives as received through 06/30/2023 plus the year's receipts.
It certifies 4,161.18 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 40,302.23 of unspent and uncommitted money on hand (p1). That is 3,165.54 more than every dollar received, and 7,326.72 more than the 32,975.51 its own figures leave. The FY2025 report certifies 4,119.31 received in the year, 41,256.00 received since 2022, 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 44,421.54 on hand (p1). That is again 3,165.54 more than everything received, and 7,326.72 more than the 37,094.82 the figures leave. The FY2025 on hand figure is the FY2024 figure plus the 4,119.31 received in FY2025. The Borough has not produced a ledger.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 4,161.18 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1).
On the same report the Borough answers No to funding any program in the year (p2). Its one reported program, Opioid education and prevention, describes placing emergency overdose kits in the public schools and borough buildings and gives 10 harm reduction supplies distributed. The FY2025 report's update of that program, last updated 09/11/2024, gives 0.00 as the amount expended from 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024 (p2). The FY2026 report prints the same update with 0 expended (p4). No report names a program or purchase for the 4,161.18. The FY2026 report also leaves it out of the money on hand. The Borough has not produced a ledger, so the payment cannot be identified.
self-contradiction · 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 Palisades Park tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 3 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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Palisades Park Borough
Palisades Park Borough certified 4,161.18 of spending it later reported as 0.00, and three of its reports put more money on hand than the Borough says it ever received or its own figures leave.