Nutley Township
- 01FY2025 balance leaves out the 74,801.98 received before it74,801.98
- 02FY2026 total received falls 28,153.90 below the year before46,160.32
- 03FY2025 program lists 10,718.63 encumbered, total says none10,718.63
- 04FY2024 balance is 7,855.23 short with nothing spent7,855.23
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Nutley Township has received $118,497.74 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
- TBD Education Program
- Recipient
- TBD
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $24,137.67
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $66,946.75
- Received to date
- $74,801.98
filed
- Program name
- Nutley Drug and Alcohol Prevention
- Recipient
- Nutley Schools
- Recipient category
- Schools, Colleges, Universities
- Amount expended
- $10,718.63
- Unspent on hand
- $61,131.03
- Received to date
- $146,651.64
filed
- Program name
- Nutley Drug and Alcohol Prevention
- Amount expended
- $21,308.97
- Unspent on hand
- $85,266.16
- Received to date
- $118,497.74
4 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 FY2025 report certifies 71,849.66 received between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and 146,651.64 received since 2022.
The FY2023 and FY2024 reports certify 0.00 expended. The FY2025 report certifies 10,718.63 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative for the year. By the Township's own figures that leaves 135,933.01 unspent. The report certifies 61,131.03 unspent and uncommitted on hand. That is the year's 71,849.66 less the year's 10,718.63, to the cent. It is 74,801.98 below the Township's own figures, which is exactly what the Township certified it received through 06/30/2024. The balance counts none of the money received before the year. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 146,651.64 received since the distribution commenced in 2022.
The FY2026 report certifies 18,006.42 received and 0.00 of interest between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, then certifies 118,497.74 received since 2022. Carrying the Township figure forward gives 164,658.06. The certified FY2026 cumulative is 46,160.32 lower than that, and 28,153.90 lower than the cumulative the Township certified a year earlier. Money already received cannot fall. The FY2026 report certifies 21,308.97 expended, 1,204.00 encumbered and 85,266.16 on hand. From the carried 164,658.06, less 32,027.60 certified spent in FY2025 and FY2026 and the 1,204.00 encumbered, the reports leave 131,426.46. The certified balance is 46,160.30 lower. No ledger has been produced.
cumulative-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 10,718.63 expended and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025.
Its one program, Nutley Drug and Alcohol Prevention, with Nutley Schools as recipient, is reported funded at 71,849.66 on 01/01/2025. The program block reports 10,718.63 expended and a further 10,718.63 encumbered or appropriated. The total says nothing was encumbered. The program says 10,718.63 was. Both cannot be true. No ledger has been produced.
self-contradiction · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report certifies 24,137.67 received as of 06/30/2023 and 0.00 expended.
The FY2024 report certifies 50,664.31 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 and 0.00 of interest. It certifies 74,801.98 received since 2022, which is those two figures to the cent. It certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative for the year, and answers No when asked whether the Township funded any program. It then certifies 66,946.75 unspent and uncommitted on hand. With nothing spent in either year, the Township's own figures leave 74,801.98 on hand. The certified balance is 7,855.23 lower, and the report accounts for none of the difference. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 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 Nutley Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 3 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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Nutley Township
Nutley Township has told the State it received 118,497.74 in opioid settlement money after reporting 146,651.64 a year earlier, and three of its four reports state balances its own figures do not support.