Newark
- 01FY2026 report leaves 122,485.19 of spending in no program122,485.19
- 02FY2026 balance 1,575,310.33 below the report's own figures1,575,310.33
- 03FY2025 balance leaves out 1,470,266.88 received earlier1,470,266.88
- 04FY2024 balance 1,269,308.75 below the report's own figures1,269,308.75
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Newark has received $3,918,325.00 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
- Newark Behavioral Health & Wellness Program
- Recipient
- Newark Department of Health & Community Wellness/Mary Eliza Mahoney Health Center
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $186,571.44
filed
- Program name
- Mobile Street Medicine Initiative
- Recipient
- City of Newark, Mayor's Office, Office of Homeless Services
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $33,112.87
- Unspent on hand
- $153,458.13
- Received to date
- $1,503,379.75
filed
- Program name
- Mobile Street Medicine Initiative
- Amount expended
- $136,526.03
- Unspent on hand
- $2,278,419.22
- Received to date
- $3,918,325.00
filed
- Program name
- Mobile Street Medicine Initiative
- Amount expended
- $440,715.30
- Unspent on hand
- $1,075,666.21
- Received to date
- $3,918,325.00
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 440,715.30 expended between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 and 181,704.08 of administrative expenses (page 1 to page 2).
Its one program block, the 2024 Mobile Street Medicine Initiative, reports 136,526.03 expended in the same period (page 5). The program and the administrative figure together make 318,230.11. That leaves 122,485.19 of certified spending that no program in the report describes. If the administrative figure sits outside the 440,715.30, the undescribed amount is 304,189.27. The program block repeats the FY2025 report to the cent. FY2025 certified 136,526.03 for the same program, and both reports give the same counts, 567 served, 38 prescriptions, 1,060 encounters, 182 referrals, 58 psychiatric evaluations, 74 placed in emergency housing and 199 transported. The FY2026 report describes its administrative expense as a social worker and a substance abuse counselor paired with street outreach workers, the staffing the FY2024 report gave as the program itself. No ledger has been produced.
self-contradiction · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies 3,918,325.00 received since 2022 and 0.00 received in the year.
It certifies 440,715.30 expended and 656,994.26 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026. The earlier reports certify 0.00 expended in FY2023, 33,112.87 in FY2024 and 136,526.03 in FY2025. The City's own figures leave 2,650,976.54 unspent and uncommitted. The report certifies 1,075,666.21 on hand, 1,575,310.33 less. Counting the 181,704.08 of administrative expenses on top of the 440,715.30 still leaves the balance 1,393,606.25 short. The report accounts for none of the difference. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 2,414,945.25 received between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and 3,918,325.00 received since 2022.
That total is the 1,503,379.75 the FY2024 report certified plus the FY2025 receipts, to the cent. It certifies 136,526.03 expended and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered for the year. With 33,112.87 certified spent in FY2024 and 0.00 in FY2023, the City's own figures leave 3,748,686.10 unspent and uncommitted. The report certifies 2,278,419.22 on hand. That is the FY2025 receipts less the FY2025 spending, to the cent. It leaves out the 1,470,266.88 that remained of the money received before 07/01/2024, although the question asks for unspent funds from any reporting year. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report certifies 186,571.44 received as of 06/30/2023 and 0.00 expended.
The FY2024 report certifies 1,316,808.31 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 and 1,503,379.75 received since 2022, the two receipts to the cent. It certifies 33,112.87 expended and 47,500.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent. The City's own figures leave 1,422,766.88 unspent and uncommitted. The report certifies 153,458.13 on hand, 1,269,308.75 less. The report accounts for none of the difference. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 47,500.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024 (page 1).
Its only program, the Mobile Street Medicine Initiative, reports 59,375.00 encumbered or appropriated (page 3). The program figure is 11,875.00 above the report's total. The program's expended figure, 33,112.87, equals the report's total spending. The same block gives a funding date of 1/1/2024 and a launch date of 9/10/2024, after the period closed. No ledger has been produced.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 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 Newark tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 4 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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Newark reports 3,918,325.00 in opioid settlement money received, and each of its last three reports states a balance on hand its own figures do not support, while its FY2026 report leaves 122,485.19 of spending in no program.