Collingswood
- 01Certified an ambulance autoloader as harm reduction34,044.07
- 02Certified a police dog and kennels as harm reduction27,690.00
- 03Certified a staff counseling benefit as opioid treatment16,800.00
- 04Certified ambulance repairs as opioid treatment12,252.15
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Collingswood has received $259,486.45 in opioid settlement funds and spent $146,142.83 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $25,085.33.
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
- Education/Communication
- Recipient
- Residents of the Borough of Collingswood
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $6,600.00
- Received to date
- $47,468.39
filed
- Program name
- Education/Communication
- Recipient
- Residents of the Borough
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $20,720.12
- Unspent on hand
- $109,752.44
- Received to date
- $166,429.68
filed
- Program name
- Education/Communication
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $41,597.95
- Unspent on hand
- $139,165.41
- Received to date
- $221,892.86
filed
- Program name
- Autoloader for new ambulance
- Recipient
- Stryker Sales Corporation
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $52,139.43
- Unspent on hand
- $65,233.05
- Received to date
- $259,486.45
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 lists a new program named Autoloader for new ambulance at 34,044.07 funded and spent, recipient Stryker Sales Corporation (pp4 to 6).
It files the program under primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with Treatment as a second category and Connections to Care and First Responders as its Schedule B strategies. It reports 11,000 people served. It states the problem and the purpose as protecting patient and employee when loading stretcher into ambulance. Every performance indicator reads unable to track. Asked how the program addresses opioid use disorder, it answers will assist with transport of users. The books show two payments from account 5-01-25-752-180. Stryker purchase order 25-02332, Autoloader New Ambulance, first encumbered 10/09/2025, was paid 33,841.37 by check 53638 on 04/07/2026. EMSAR purchase order 25-01563, Stretcher Loader Repair, was paid 202.70 by check 52711 on 08/04/2025. Together they make the certified figure to the cent. The report's launch date, 10/09/2025, is the date the Stryker order was opened, and its funding date, 04/07/2026, is the date of the check. A powered stretcher loader moves patients into an ambulance. It is not a harm reduction service. Exhibit E's First Responders category adds two uses to the first-responder items in sections C, D and H: education about fentanyl and other drugs, and wellness services for first responders. No overdose program using the autoloader is documented, and no listed use in C, D, H or I covers ambulance loading equipment.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report lists a new program named K9 program, recipients Police Service Dogs, the Shed Lot and Emergency Accessories, at 27,690.00 funded, 11,445.35 spent and 16,244.65 encumbered (pp6 to 8).
It files the program under primary category Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with Connections to Care as its Schedule B strategy, and reports 11,000 people served. It describes the purpose as using K9 encounters as an entry point to diversionary and other treatment programs, and says the police department should have certain protocols in place to facilitate a pathway to treatment. It also calls the program dual use, for youth prevention and education, with dogs deployed in schools, senior centers and community events for harm reduction messaging. Every performance indicator reads unable to track, and the report says the Borough is unable to measure or track the impact. The books show a police dog and its housing. Purchase order 26-00476 paid Police Service Dogs, Inc. 16,000.00 for a European imported police dog by check 53622 on 04/07/2026. It is the only payment the Police Service Dogs vendor history shows. Purchase order 26-00498 paid The Shed Lot 11,690.00 net for two dog kennels and two stone pads by check 53641 the same day. The two payments make the certified funding figure to the cent. Purchase order 26-00873 for 16,244.65, to outfit cars for the K9 unit, was opened on 05/07/2026 and was still unpaid on 08/24/2026. The report gives the launch date as 02/02/2026, six weeks before the dog was ordered. No diversion protocol, referral, treatment or education program tied to the dog appears in the records in hand. A police dog is not a harm reduction service, and police dogs are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
program-misclassification · 4 documents · 10/03/2026Three reports certify the Borough's Employee Assistance Program as an abatement program.
FY2023 files it under Recovery and Support at 5,600.00, with a launch date of 05/09/2022 (p2). FY2024 files it under Treatment, Schedule B strategy Connections to Care, at 5,600.00, with a launch date of 01/01/2024, and reports 10 participants served (pp2 to 3). It answers that the Borough did not solicit quotes from other EAP service providers. FY2025 updates it at 5,600.00 with 22 participants (p3). The program is one contract. The EAP Services Agreement with The Cooper Health System, made 06/01/2022, pays a flat 5,600.00 and renews from year to year. It gives borough employees and their immediate family up to five short-term counseling sessions for personal or emotional problems, including marital and family problems, substance abuse and psychological difficulties, with a referral after the fifth visit. It excepts alcohol and drug detoxification and rehabilitation from the services at the program's offices. The Cooper vendor history shows five payments of 5,600.00 on that contract. Check 47958 on 06/06/2022 was charged to HEALTH BENEFITS. Checks 49377 on 06/05/2023, 50757 on 05/06/2024 and 52178 on 04/07/2025 were charged to the settlement accounts. Check 53925 on 06/16/2026 went back to HEALTH BENEFITS. The same benefit, at the same price, was carried by the Borough's health benefits line before and after the three years the fund paid for it. The FY2024 launch date contradicts the contract, the FY2023 report and the 2022 payment. A five-session counseling benefit for any personal problem of staff is not treatment for opioid use disorder, which is what Exhibit E's Treatment uses describe.
false-characterization · 8 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report lists a program named EMS Ambulance Repairs/Supplies at 12,252.15 funded and expended, recipient Residents of the Borough (pp5 to 6).
It files the program under primary category Treatment with First Responders as its Schedule B strategy. Its performance indicator is repair to ambulance which transports patients. Asked how the program addresses opioid use disorder, it answers N/A. Account 3-01-25-752-180 paid four items. VCI compliance repairs to ambulance 1647, 2,623.38, check 49845 on 09/05/2023. Bound Tree Medical pulse oximeters, 1,299.98, check 49749 on 09/05/2023. Matthey Automotive compliance repairs to ambulances 1648 and 1647, 4,192.64 and 4,136.15, check 49926 on 10/02/2023. They make the certified figure to the cent. The Matthey and VCI vendor histories show repairs to the same two ambulances charged to VEHICLE MAINT-AMBULANCE and HADDON TWP FIRE -MISC from 2018 on, including Matthey brake repairs to 1648 and exhaust repairs to 1647 paid 06/05/2023 and further repairs to 1648 paid 12/04/2023. No other Matthey or VCI repair was charged to the settlement accounts. Exhibit E's Treatment uses are treatment for opioid use disorder. Its First Responders category adds two uses to the first-responder items in sections C, D and H: education about fentanyl and other drugs, and wellness services for first responders. No overdose program using these ambulances is documented.
program-misclassification · 6 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 52,139.43 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
That is the sum of its three program figures, Autoloader for new ambulance 34,044.07, K9 program 11,445.35 and the Education/Communication update 6,650.01 (pp5, 7 and 9). The two settlement accounts paid 77,224.76 in the same period. The difference, 25,085.33, has two parts. The Education/Communication figure is the March and April 2026 Town Criers, 3,077.51 and 3,572.50. It leaves out three Town Criers paid from account 5-01-25-752-180 in the period, check 52712 for 2,428.76 on 08/04/2025, check 52945 for 2,891.42 on 10/06/2025 and check 53184 for 3,520.50 on 12/01/2025, 8,840.68 in all. The September and November 2025 issues, 6,411.92, appear in no report. The K9 figure, 11,445.35, is the 27,690.00 paid for the dog and kennels on 04/07/2026 less purchase order 26-00873 for 16,244.65, an order to outfit cars for the K9 unit that was still open and unpaid on 08/24/2026. Money already paid cannot be reduced by an order not yet paid. The certified total is 25,085.33 below what the accounts paid.
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 65,233.05 of unspent and uncommitted settlement funds on hand (p2).
That figure is two budget account balances added together. Account 5-01-25-752-180 prints a balance of 62,109.96 as of 05/27/2026. Account 6-01-25-752-180 prints a balance of 3,123.09 as of 08/24/2026, the same balance it has carried since 05/07/2026. Together they make 65,233.05 to the cent. A budget balance is what is left of an appropriation, not what the Borough holds. The reports' own figures give a different answer. Question 3 of the FY2026 report certifies 259,486.45 received since 2022. The four reports certify 121,057.50 spent, 6,600.00, 20,720.12, 41,597.95 and 52,139.43. Question 7 certifies 16,244.65 encumbered. That leaves 122,184.30. The produced ledgers leave 97,098.97, the 259,486.45 received less 146,142.83 paid and the 16,244.65 open order. The two balances leave out the 30,387.40 of receipts not appropriated to any of the four produced accounts, 259,486.45 less appropriations of 229,099.05, and the 1,478.52 left in the 2023 account.
unspent-misstated · 9 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report updates the EMS Ambulance Repairs/Supplies program at 24,632.33 expended between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025, with the indicator Purchased Stretcher for Ambulance (p2).
The FY2024 report filed that program under Treatment. The purchase is Stryker purchase order 24-02222, paid by one check, 51744, on 12/02/2024. Line 1, two EMS stretchers on invoice 9207738234, is 24,632.33 on settlement account 4-01-25-752-180. Line 2, the same invoice number, is 43,245.11 on the Borough's RENTAL/PURCHASE EQUIPMENT line, 4-01-25-752-035. With an 8,000.00 credit and four smaller invoices on that line, the equipment line carried 40,387.43 of the 65,019.76 order. The settlement share equals what was left of the 2024 settlement appropriation, 35,259.06 less 5,600.00, 2,288.05 and 2,738.68. The account's running balance prints 24,632.33 before the charge and 0.00 after it. The Borough bought Stryker stretcher straps, stretcher mattresses, a stretcher and a stretcher battery pack from its own equipment and medical supply lines in 2023 and 2024, and paid an autoloader repair for ambulance 1648 from EQUIPMENT REPAIRS on 08/04/2026. No overdose program using the stretchers is documented.
supplantation · 4 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Police vehicles and gear
The ledger, as printed.
Account 3-01-25-752-180, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/05/2023 | 49377 | 23-00996 | COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE · EAP Services 6/1/23 to 5/31/24 | 5,600.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/15/2023 | 49485 | 23-01176 | US POSTAL SERVICE · POSTAGE FOR TOWN CRIER | 1,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 08/07/2023 | 49645 | 23-01489 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · July Town Crier Inv. 143806 | 2,367.97 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/05/2023 | 49749 | 23-01534 | BOUND TREE MEDICAL, LLC · Pulse Oximeters | 1,299.98 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 09/05/2023 | 49845 | 23-01596 | VCI · Amb1647 DOH Compliance Repairs | 2,623.38 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/02/2023 | 49899 | 23-01898 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · Sept. Town Crier Inv. 143807 | 500.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/02/2023 | 49926 | 23-01800 | MATTHEY AUTOMOTIVE,INC · Amb 1647 Compliance Repairs | 4,136.15 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/02/2023 | 49926 | 23-01799 | MATTHEY AUTOMOTIVE,INC · Amb 1648 Compliance Repairs | 4,192.64 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/06/2024 | 50757 | 24-00745 | COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE · EAP Services 6/1/24 to 5/31/25 | 5,600.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 08/05/2024 | 51188 | 24-01461 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · July 2024 Town Crier 147388 | 2,288.05 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/07/2024 | 51463 | 24-01995 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · Sept. 2024 Town Crier 147389 | 2,738.68 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 12/02/2024 | 51744 | 24-02222 | STRYKER SALES CORPORATION · (2) Stretchers EMS 9207738234 | 24,632.33 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2025 | 52178 | 25-00715 | COOPER UNIVERSITY HEALTH CARE · EAP Services 6/1/25 to 5/31/26 | 5,600.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2025 | 52183 | 25-00543 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · March 2025 Town Crier 153513 | 2,737.76 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/05/2025 | 52320 | 25-00909 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · May 2025 Town Crier 153556 | 3,601.13 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 08/04/2025 | 52711 | 25-01563 | EMSAR Corporate · Stretcher Loader Repair | 202.70 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 08/04/2025 | 52712 | 25-01672 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · July 2025 Town Crier 153557 | 2,428.76 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/06/2025 | 52945 | 25-02100 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · Sept. 2025 Town Crier 153558 | 2,891.42 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 12/01/2025 | 53184 | 25-02681 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · Nov. 2025 Town Crier 153559 | 3,520.50 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53581 | 26-00467 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · March 2026 Town Crier | 3,077.51 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53622 | 26-00476 | POLICE SERVICE DOGS, INC. · EUROPEAN IMPORTED POLICE DOG | 16,000.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53638 | 25-02332 | STRYKER SALES CORPORATION · Autoloader New Ambulance | 33,841.37 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53641 | 26-00498 | THE SHED LOT · 8X10 DOG KENNELS THE SHED | 5,510.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53641 | 26-00498 | THE SHED LOT · 9X11 STONE PAD THE SHED | 970.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53641 | 26-00498 | THE SHED LOT · 6X8 DOG KENNEL THE SHED | 4,860.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53641 | 26-00498 | THE SHED LOT · 7X9 STONE PAD THE SHED | 850.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 04/07/2026 | 53641 | 26-00498 | THE SHED LOT · DISCOUNT THE SHED | -500.00 | Reversal · Non-conforming |
| 05/04/2026 | 53706 | 26-00830 | EVERGREEN PRINTING COMPANY · 2026 Town Crier - April | 3,572.50 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/07/2026 | open | 26-00873 | EMERGENCY ACCESSORIES & INSTALLATION · Outfit cars for K-9's | 16,244.65 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 146,642.83 | ||||
| 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 $58,473.70, the largest payee total. Solid is the opioid account. Hatched is every other fund.
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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 Collingswood tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 11 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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Collingswood Borough certified an ambulance autoloader and a police dog to the State as overdose harm reduction, and paid its newsletter, a staff counseling contract and ambulance repairs from its settlement fund after paying the same costs from its own budget lines.