Wallington
- 01Paid 25,999.40 for a sign, then certified 0.00 spent25,999.40
- 02Certified a Borough Hall sign as overdose harm reduction25,999.40
- 03Reported a sign ordered after year end as FY2024 spendingCertified against books conflict25,999.40
- 04Certified 0.00 on hand with 15,305.65 still in reserve15,305.65
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Wallington has received $56,976.63 in opioid settlement funds and spent $25,999.40 of it. Its reports to the State certify $25,999.40 with no payee in the books.
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
- $12,218.19
filed
- Program name
- Borough of Wallington Opioid Related Messaging
- Recipient
- Borough of Wallington
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $25,999.40
- Unspent on hand
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $34,726.87
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $21,387.10
- Received to date
- $48,883.50
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $56,976.63
8 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 covers 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026.
It certifies 0.00 spent at question 6 (p1) and 0.00 encumbered at question 7 (p2), and it answers No to question 17, whether the Borough funded any program in the year (p3). The books show one payment in that year. Check 93 paid Redmont Sign, LLC, doing business as Stewart Signs, 25,999.40 on 07/17/2025 for an outdoor LED sign, purchase order 24-00804, charged to G-01-213-55-326-024, Appropriation Reserve, Opioid Settlement. It is the only payment on the Borough's produced opioid lines. The FY2024 report had already described the same purchase, an LED sign with a programmable message board at Borough Hall, and certified it as spent under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention in a period that closed the day before the order was placed. The FY2025 report certified 0.00 spent. The one payment the Borough has made from settlement money appears in no report for the year it was made.
zero-certification · 5 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report lists one program, Borough of Wallington Opioid Related Messaging, with the Borough itself as recipient, funded and expended at 25,999.40 (p4).
Its description is purchasing and installing an LED sign with programmable message board at Borough Hall, and its duration answer calls the purchase a 1-time capital purchase (p4). The report files it under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention and names five Schedule B strategies, among them Support People in Treatment and Recovery, Connections to Care and Address the Needs of Pregnant or Parenting Women (p6). In its own words the sign enables broad communication with the public (p2), and the Borough was in need of an outdoor LED sign at the Borough Hall to program customizable messages for the residents, with a focus on public health and safety (p3). Of the two indicators the program lists, Number of referrals to treatment is left blank (p5). The books show the sign. Purchase order 24-00804 to Redmont Sign, LLC is one OUTDOOR LED SIGN at 25,999.40, paid by check 93 on 07/17/2025, the certified figure to the cent. No campaign, message schedule or treatment, recovery or overdose program using the sign is documented. Exhibit E names media campaigns to prevent misuse, not municipal signs, and no listed use covers a general purpose message board.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report covers 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024.
It certifies 25,999.40 expended at question 6 (p1), the same 25,999.40 as the program's amount expended, and a program launch date of 06/30/2024 (p4). Nothing left the opioid lines in that period and nothing was encumbered. Purchase order 24-00804 for the sign carries an order date and a first encumbrance date of 07/01/2024, the day after the period closed. Redmont's invoice 242734 is dated 12/20/2024. The order is marked received on 07/15/2025, and check 93 paid it on 07/17/2025, 382 days after the period closed. The FY2025 report, covering 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025, certifies 0.00 spent and 0.00 encumbered (p1), while the order stood open and unpaid for that whole year. The payment fell in FY2026, and that report certifies 0.00 spent.
misreported-expenditure · 6 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 0.00 appropriated or encumbered and not spent at question 7, and 0.00 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand at question 9 (p2).
The Borough's two opioid lines held 15,305.65 unexpended on 05/28/2026, 3,713.33 on G-01-213-55-326-024 and 11,592.32 on G-01-213-55-326-025. The -025 line had never been charged as of that date. The -024 line opened the period 07/01/2025 at 3,713.33, shows no activity through 08/31/2026 other than the sign payment already in that opening balance, and closed at 3,713.33. Question 9 asks for money that is unspent or uncommitted, and money appropriated but not spent is unspent. The FY2025 report said the Borough had "not yet committed the remaining funds available" (p2), and the FY2026 report certifies nothing appropriated or encumbered in the year. Its own figures do not give zero either. Question 3 certifies 56,976.63 received since 2022 (p1). The four reports certify 25,999.40 spent in all, which leaves 30,977.23.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 34,726.87 received since 2022 at question 3, 25,999.40 expended at question 6 and 0.00 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand at question 9 (p1).
Its own figures leave 8,727.47. The FY2025 report's question 9 figure, 21,387.10, equals 8,727.47 plus the 12,659.63 received in FY2025, to the cent (p1). The books show more unspent. The sign order did not exist until 07/01/2024, and the first payment from the opioid lines is check 93 on 07/17/2025. Until then none of the 34,726.87 the report counts as received had been spent.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent in the period 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024 at question 7 (p1).
The program page of the same report answers the same question for the same period with 45,461.00 (p4). The same report certifies 34,726.87 received since 2022 (p1), so the program figure is 10,734.13 more than the Borough says it had received. The books match neither figure. No order was open on the opioid lines at 06/30/2024. The sign order was first encumbered on 07/01/2024. The two produced appropriation lines total 41,305.05, 29,712.73 and 11,592.32.
self-contradiction · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report says the Borough was in need of an outdoor LED sign at the Borough Hall to program customizable messages for the residents of the Borough, with a focus on public health and safety (p3), and calls the purchase a 1-time capital purchase (p4).
The Borough's general capital fund carries exterior signs. On 06/14/2024, seventeen days before the opioid sign order, it encumbered 20,870.00 for a library sign with display and 640.00 for installation with concrete from Signs American Woodcarving, purchase order 24-00705, on account C-04-216-55-003-933, Ordinance 2023-02, supplement to 21-01, New Library. Check 4241 paid both lines on 09/20/2024 (p24). Ordinance 26-18 carries 60,000.00 for pedestrian safety signs, unspent at 09/04/2026 (p36). Redmont Sign, LLC has one purchase order from the Borough between 01/01/2018 and 08/31/2026, the opioid sign. That the settlement money paid for a sign the Borough's capital budget would otherwise have carried is this project's inference from these records. The current fund's operating lines for signage were not produced.
supplantation · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 48,883.50 received since 2022, a figure its question 3 defines as including interest, and 1,497.00 of interest in the year (p1).
The only spending any report certifies is the 25,999.40 in FY2024, so its own figures leave 22,884.10. It certifies 21,387.10 on hand at question 9 (p1). The difference is 1,497.00, the year's interest. The certified figure equals the 8,727.47 the FY2024 figures leave plus the 12,659.63 received in FY2025, to the cent, with no interest.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Phantom programs · Zero certification
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-01-213-55-326-024, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07/17/2025 | 93 | 24-00804 | REDMONT SIGN LLC · OUTDOOR LED SIGN 242734 | 25,999.40 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 25,999.40 | ||||
| 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.
Full width is $25,999.40, 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 Wallington 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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Wallington Borough
Wallington Borough's one settlement payment, a 25,999.40 LED sign at Borough Hall, was certified to the State as harm reduction spending in a year that closed before the sign was ordered, and left out of the report for the year it was paid.