West Caldwell Township
- 01Reported 7,750.00 more on hand than its books leave7,750.00
- 02Certified police training as Recovery Supports, misdated13,500.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
West Caldwell Township has received $51,411.22 in opioid settlement funds and spent $21,250.00 of it.
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
- $5,304.59
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $31,071.61
- Received to date
- $31,071.61
filed
- Program name
- Chris Herren: First Day
- Recipient
- Herren Talks
- Recipient category
- Schools, Colleges, Universities
- Amount expended
- $7,750.00
- Unspent on hand
- $35,444.10
- Received to date
- $43,194.10
filed
- Program name
- Chris Herren: First Day
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $13,500.00
- Unspent on hand
- $37,911.22
- Received to date
- $51,411.22
2 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 51,411.22 received since 2022 (Q3, p1), 13,500.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (Q6, p1) and 37,911.22 unspent on hand (Q9, p2).
37,911.22 is the cumulative receipts less the FY2026 spending only. The account has paid two checks in its history. Herren Talks check 18841 for 7,750.00 on 01/21/2025, purchase order 24002975, and ZSchool LLC check 19777 for 13,500.00 on 08/19/2025, purchase order 25001456. The audit trail printed 08/31/2026 shows Expended YTD 21,250.00 and nothing encumbered. Receipts less both checks leave 30,161.22. The FY2025 report had already certified the Herren payment as spent and 35,444.10 on hand. That balance plus the 8,217.12 the FY2026 report says was received in the year, less the 13,500.00 it says was spent, is also 30,161.22. The report states no other receipt. The certified balance counts the 7,750.00 paid to Herren Talks on 01/21/2025 as money still on hand.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report certifies Operational Readiness for Police Officers: OUD Program, ZSchool LLC (Seton Hall University), at 13,500.00 funded and 13,500.00 spent in the year (p5).
It names the problem addressed as Training for Police Officers and the target population as law enforcement and other emergency responders (pp4 to 5). It files the program under the primary category Recovery Supports, with no other category (questions 17 and 18, p6). It gives 06/30/2026 as the date the program was funded and the date it launched (questions 7 and 10, p5). The books show one purchase. ZSchool quote QTE-001160, dated 06/30/2025 and billed to the West Caldwell Police Department, prices 30 seats at 450.00 in a four hour online course for police officers. Purchase order 25001456 was entered 07/16/2025. Check 19777 paid 13,500.00 on 08/19/2025. The course trains officers. It is not a support for people in recovery. The Township's FY2025 report filed the Herren assembly under Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, the category for training. The check cleared more than ten months before the date the report gives for funding the program.
program-misclassification · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-40-213-738-000, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/21/2025 | 18841 | 24002975 | HERREN TALKS, INC · PRESENTATION H.S. 2/11/25 | 7,750.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/19/2025 | 19777 | 25001456 | ZSCHOOL, LLC · Opiod Use Disorder Course (30) | 13,500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| Total paid | 21,250.00 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 13,500.00 |
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 $13,500.00, 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 West Caldwell 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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West Caldwell Township
West Caldwell Township spent 21,250.00 of its settlement money on a school assembly and a police course on opioid use disorder, and its FY2026 report counts 7,750.00 already spent as still on hand and files the police course as Recovery Supports.