Ridgewood
- 01Reported 29,742.10 on hand, its own figures give 122,397.0892,654.98
- 02Certified 7,050.00 encumbered that no program carries7,050.00
- 03FY2023 report funds a 59,596.30 program, FY2024 says none59,596.30
- 0413,207.90 certified spent, program launched after year end13,207.90
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Ridgewood has received $192,654.98 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
- MISUSE OF OPIOIDS
- Recipient
- Board of Education
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $59,596.30
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $113,423.51
- Received to date
- $113,423.51
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $164,276.98
- Received to date
- $164,376.98
filed
- Program name
- Village of Ridgewood
- Recipient
- Village of Ridgewood
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $13,207.90
- Unspent on hand
- $29,742.10
- Received to date
- $192,654.98
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 FY2026 report certifies 192,654.98 received since 2022, 50,000.00 transferred to the county, 13,207.90 spent and 7,050.00 encumbered but not yet spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (pages 1 and 2).
It certifies 29,742.10 of unspent and uncommitted funds currently on hand (page 2). The report's own figures leave 122,397.08, which is 192,654.98 less 50,000.00, 13,207.90 and 7,050.00. The certified balance is 92,654.98 lower. It equals the 50,000.00 county transfer less the 13,207.90 spent and the 7,050.00 encumbered, to the cent. The balance was computed from the transfer, not from the money received. The FY2025 report had certified 164,276.98 on hand at 06/30/2025, and the Village certifies 28,278.00 received in FY2026. The Village has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 7,050.00 of settlement funds appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (page 2).
Its program list holds one program, named Village of Ridgewood, funded at 13,207.90 with 13,207.90 spent and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent (page 5). No program in the report carries the 7,050.00. The report names no order, vendor or purpose for it. The 7,050.00 is also one of the three figures the report subtracts from the county transfer to reach its certified balance on hand. The Village has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report lists one program, MISUSE OF OPIOIDS, with the Board of Education as the funding recipient, Harm Reduction as the primary category and 59,596.30 of funding (page 2).
It gives the date funded and the launch date as 12/1/23, disbursed one time only. 59,596.30 is every dollar the report certifies received as of 06/30/2023 (page 1). 12/1/23 falls inside the next reporting period, 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024. The FY2024 report for that period certifies 0.00 expended and 0.00 encumbered, answers No to whether any program was funded in the year, and certifies 113,423.51 on hand, every dollar received since 2022 (pages 1 and 2). The FY2025 and FY2026 reports carry no update for the program. The two reports cannot both be true. The Village has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 13,207.90 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (page 1).
Its only program is named Village of Ridgewood, with the Village of Ridgewood as the recipient and Stop Substance Abuse as its purpose (page 4). The report gives the date funded as 4/15/2026, the amount spent in the year as 13,207.90, the launch date as 9/1/2026 and the number of people served as 0 (page 5). The launch date is two months after the reporting period closed. The program files under Workforce Development and Capacity Building, selects First Responders as its Schedule B strategy, names members of the general public as its target and says only that supplies will assist curtailing substance abuse (pages 4 to 6). It names no supply, vendor or purchase. The Village has produced no ledger, so what the 13,207.90 paid for is not on the record.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 164,376.98 received since 2022, including interest (page 1).
It certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, and the Village reports no transfer to the county that year. No earlier report certifies any spending. The report certifies 164,276.98 of unspent and uncommitted funds on hand, 100.00 less than every dollar received. The 100.00 equals the interest the FY2024 report certifies, and the FY2024 report had counted it in its own 113,423.51 on hand. The Village has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 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 Ridgewood tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 2 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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Ridgewood Village
Ridgewood Village reported 192,654.98 in opioid settlement money received, then certified a FY2026 balance on hand of 29,742.10 that it built from a 50,000.00 county transfer, beside spending on a program that launched after the year.