Southampton Township
- 01Certified 11,326.03 encumbered with no order on the books11,326.03
- 02Reported a budget balance as cash on hand, 16,458.77 short16,458.77
- 03Reported one year's receipts as all the cash on hand15,738.08
- 04Charged 825.00 of retro pay to the fund, never reported825.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Southampton Township has received $40,685.30 in opioid settlement funds and spent $3,361.50 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $825.00.
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
- Information - building website
- Recipient
- Southampton township
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $5,237.05
filed
- Program name
- Lectures and distribution of Narcan
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $2,536.50
- Unspent on hand
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $19,099.58
filed
- Program name
- Lectures and distribution of Narcan
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $16,016.41
- Received to date
- $35,115.99
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $20,865.03
- Received to date
- $40,685.30
6 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 FY2024 report certifies 13,862.53 received, 2,536.50 expended, 11,326.03 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent, and 0.00 unspent on hand (p1).
The 11,326.03 is the year's receipts less the year's spending, 13,862.53 less 2,536.50, to the cent. The same report's only funded program, Publicy Accessible Narcan, shows 0.00 encumbered (p3). The Township's audit trail of 05/28/2026 covers every opioid sub-account, G-02-41-722-300 to -308, from 01/01/2022. It shows one purchase order, 23-00349, paid in full by check 1018 on 11/20/2023, and Encumber YTD of 0.00 on every line. No combination of the appropriation balances on those lines equals 11,326.03. The figure also makes the year's arithmetic close at zero. The report's own cumulative receipts, 19,099.58, less 2,536.50 and less 11,326.03 leave 5,237.05, exactly the receipts the FY2023 report certified. The 0.00 on hand leaves them out. With no commitment on the books, the uncommitted balance at 06/30/2024 was 19,099.58 less the 3,361.50 the sub-accounts had paid, or 15,738.08. A report cannot certify 11,326.03 committed when no order or matching appropriation existed.
fake-encumbrance · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 40,685.30 received since 2022, 0.00 spent in the year, 0.00 encumbered and 20,865.03 of unspent funds currently on hand (pp1 to 2).
The 20,865.03 is the budget balance of department 722, National Opioids Settlement Fund, on the Township's audit trail of 05/28/2026 (p2). That print shows 24,226.53 appropriated across nine sub-accounts, 3,361.50 expended and 20,865.03 unexpended. It counts only money the Township put in the budget. The report's own received figure less every payment the sub-accounts ever made, 40,685.30 less 3,361.50, is 37,323.80. The 16,458.77 difference, 40,685.30 less 24,226.53, is receipts that were never appropriated and that the on-hand figure leaves out. The year's receipts figure, 5,569.31, equals the three Chapter 159 lines, 1,965.15, 3,568.69 and 35.47, on the same print. Nothing has been paid from any opioid sub-account since 11/20/2023.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 16,016.41 received in the year, 35,115.99 received since 2022, 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 16,016.41 of unspent funds on hand from any reporting year (p1).
The on-hand figure is the year's receipts to the cent. The opioid sub-accounts paid 3,361.50 in all, the last of it on 11/20/2023, and nothing between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025. By the report's own received figure the Township held 35,115.99 less 3,361.50, or 31,754.49. The on-hand figure leaves out 15,738.08 of the 19,099.58 received in FY2023 and FY2024. The FY2024 report had already certified 0.00 on hand.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 2,536.50 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 and 0.00 of administrative expenses (p1).
Sub-account G-02-41-722-300 shows a charge of 825.00 described as PAYROLL # 18, Reference 2179, on 09/07/2023, inside that period. The payroll register for that check date shows an earnings line E04 RETRO PAY of 825.00 for one employee in department ADM, beside 42.50 regular hours. The FY2023 report names the same employee as the official authorized to report on the settlement funds. The sub-accounts paid 3,361.50 in the FY2024 period, the 825.00 charge and check 1018 for 2,536.50 on 11/20/2023. The certified figure is the check alone. The FY2025 and FY2026 reports certify 0.00 spent, so the 825.00 appears in no report. Across four reports the Township has certified 2,536.50 spent against 3,361.50 on its books.
unreported-spending · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies one funded program, Publicy Accessible Narcan, with Southampton Township as the recipient, 2,536.50 expended, a funding date of 06/30/2024 and a launch date of 06/01/2024 (pp2 to 3).
It says Narcan was added to a preexisting AED cabinet in the Municipal Building (p4). The books show the 2,536.50 left the opioid sub-accounts on 11/20/2023, check 1018 on purchase order 23-00349 to the Hampton Lakes Emergency Squad, described as Narcan purchase for grant, with the order lines first encumbered on 09/27/2023 and 09/29/2023. The vendor history shows the same check and invoice. The payment came seven months before the certified funding date and more than six months before the certified launch. The FY2023 report had listed a different program, Lectures and distribution of Narcan, run by the Emergency Management Office from 10/1/2023. The FY2024 report calls that program a one-time event, and the FY2025 report certifies 0.00 spent on it between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024. The amount ties to the books. The dates the report gives for it do not.
reporting-contradiction · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2023 report lists a program named Information - building website, recipient Southampton township, primary category Prevention and Education, funded 09/05/2023 at 1,000.00 and launched 09/05/2023 (p2).
The Township's audit trail of 05/28/2026 covers every opioid sub-account, G-02-41-722-300 to -308, from 01/01/2022. The print of 09/01/2026 carries sub-accounts 300 to 302 to 12/31/2026. Together they show two charges ever, the 825.00 retro pay of 09/07/2023 and check 1018 for 2,536.50 of Narcan on 11/20/2023. No payment of 1,000.00 and no website charge appears. The FY2024 report covers 09/05/2023. It certifies only the Narcan as spent and gives the website program no update. No later report mentions it.
phantom-program · 4 documents · 10/04/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Fake encumbrances · Phantom programs
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-41-722-300, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/07/2023 | PAYROLL # 18 | 825.00 | Paid · Unverified | ||
| 11/20/2023 | 1018 | 23-00349 | HAMPTON LAKES EMERGENCY SQUAD · Narcan purchase for grant | 460.63 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/20/2023 | 1018 | 23-00349 | HAMPTON LAKES EMERGENCY SQUAD · Narcan purchase for grant | 1,191.91 | Paid · Conforming |
| 11/20/2023 | 1018 | 23-00349 | HAMPTON LAKES EMERGENCY SQUAD · Narcan purchase for grant | 883.96 | Paid · Conforming |
| Total paid | 3,361.50 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 2,536.50 |
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 $2,536.50, 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 Southampton Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 5 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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Southampton Township has spent 3,361.50 of the 40,685.30 in opioid settlement money it reports receiving, and each of its last three reports to the State misstates what it holds or what it spent.