Teaneck Township
- 01FY2026 report puts 88,628.91 less on hand than its own sums88,628.91
- 02FY2025 report left 13,488.56 out of the money on hand13,488.56
- 03FY2026 report claims 42,300.00 encumbered, books show none42,300.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Teaneck Township has received $285,276.31 in opioid settlement funds and no ledger spending is published yet.
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 Prevention, Education and Community Outreach
- Recipient
- Township of Teaneck
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $11,820.21
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $66,357.07
- Received to date
- $66,357.07
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $116,840.87
- Received to date
- $130,329.43
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $154,347.40
- Received to date
- $285,276.31
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 285,276.31 received since 2022 at question 3, 0.00 spent in the year at question 6 and 42,300.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent at question 7 (pages 1 and 2).
The FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 reports each certify 0.00 spent. On the report's own figures the money left unspent and uncommitted is 242,976.31. Question 9 certifies 154,347.40, which is 88,628.91 less. The 154,347.40 is also the figure question 1 gives as received in the year. It equals the adopted and modified appropriation of settlement account G-02-55-000-000-183 and the Unexpended figure on that account's 08/31/2026 print. That Unexpended figure still holds the 42,300.00 of requisition R25-1415, so question 9 counts as uncommitted the same 42,300.00 that question 7 reports as committed. Question 3 equals the FY2025 cumulative of 130,329.43 plus 154,347.40 plus interest of 599.48. The account's 08/31/2026 print shows Expended YTD 0.00. Either question 3 overstates what the Township received or question 9 understates what it holds. Both cannot be true.
self-contradiction · 5 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 130,329.43 received since 2022 including interest, 0.00 spent and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered (page 1).
The FY2023 and FY2024 reports also certify 0.00 spent. The FY2025 report certifies 116,840.87 of unspent and uncommitted money on hand. That is the FY2024 receipts of 53,919.12 plus the FY2025 receipts of 62,921.75, to the cent. It leaves out the 11,820.21 received through 06/30/2023 and the interest of 617.74 and 1,050.61, a total of 13,488.56. The FY2024 report had counted the FY2023 money and certified 66,357.07 on hand. The FY2023 report had assigned the 11,820.21 to a program, Opioid Prevention, Education and Community Outreach, funded 10/31/2023. Settlement account G-02-55-000-000-183 shows no payment and no encumbrance from 01/01/2019 until a journal of 01/22/2026, which was reversed the same day. Nothing was spent to account for the drop. Every certified dollar, 130,329.43, was still unspent.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 42,300.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent from 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026 at question 7 (page 2).
Settlement account G-02-55-000-000-183 is appropriated at 154,347.40, not 42,300.00. Its 06/09/2026 print shows Encumber YTD 0.00 and Requested YTD 0.00. It carries the 42,300.00 as Expended YTD, from journal reference 762 of 01/22/2026, Reclassify expenses to grant. Its 08/31/2026 print shows reference 762 reversed by reference 779 with the same date, Expended YTD 0.00 and Encumber YTD 0.00 again. The 42,300.00 now sits as requisition R25-1415, Opiod Training, vendor To Be Determined, shown under Requested YTD and posted on the trail at 08/31/2026. A requisition is a request. No purchase order was produced and none appears on either print. The report certifies an encumbrance the books never show, and the same report certifies 0.00 spent while its books of 06/09/2026 showed 42,300.00 expended.
fake-encumbrance · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The ledger, as printed.
Account 5-01-41-720-000-002, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/22/2026 | 762 | (not specified - journal reclass) · Reclassify expenses to grant | 42,300.00 | Paid · Unverified | |
| 01/22/2026 | 779 | (none - journal) · Correct Prior Re-Classification | -42,300.00 | Reversal · Unverified | |
| 01/22/2026 | 779 | (none - journal) · Correct Prior Re-Classification | 42,300.00 | Journal · Transfer | |
| 08/31/2026 | R25-1415 | TOBED010 To Be Determined · Opiod Training (sic) | 42,300.00 | Journal · Conforming | |
| Total paid | 42,300.00 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 0.00 |
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.
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 Teaneck Township 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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Teaneck Township has spent none of its opioid settlement money, and its reports to the State give on-hand figures that its own certified numbers do not support.