Monroe Township
- 01Paid police salary from a line captioned Opioid Grant Funds46,680.25
- 02Paid a consultant 66,000.00 with no written scope on record66,000.00
- 03Certified no new programs, paid a media firm for the vigil12,092.50
- 04Certified payroll as opioid task force eight months earlyCertified against books conflict46,680.25
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Monroe Township has received $288,597.68 in opioid settlement funds and spent $138,020.38 of it. Its reports to the State certify $120,343.00 with no payee in the books.
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
- Opioid Task force - $46,680.25 the balance of our funds and add funds when available.
- Recipient
- Monroe Township
- Amount expended
- $46,680.25
- Received to date
- $76,581.01
filed
- Program name
- Monroe Township Committee on Addiction
- Recipient
- Monroe Township
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $92,562.75
- Unspent on hand
- $57,446.98
- Received to date
- $156,777.33
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $21,191.74
- Unspent on hand
- $73,791.16
- Received to date
- $212,898.96
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $29,627.63
- Unspent on hand
- $181,297.29
- Received to date
- $288,597.68
15 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.
Purchase order 24-00917 is the voucher for a township payroll run dated 03/14/2024.
It totals 782,355.50 across 61 account lines. One of those lines charges 46,680.25 to account G-01-23-100-000-018, and the Township captions that line Opioid Grant Funds - Police Salaries. The same voucher charges 388,718.98 of police full time salary elsewhere, 308,352.68 on the current year line 4-01-25-300-300-101 POLICE S and W Fulltime and 80,366.30 on the prior year appropriation 3-01-25-300-300-101. The account was used to pay police salary that the same payroll run otherwise charged to the police salary appropriations. No abatement program is documented behind the charge, and police compensation is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
non-conforming-spending · 2 documents · 09/23/2026A single consultant has been paid 66,000.00 from the two opioid spending accounts, from 03/27/2024 through 07/22/2026.
The Township's vendor payment history for that consultant, 01/01/2018 to 08/19/2026, shows 23 line items and every one is charged to an opioid account. Most payments are a monthly 2,700.00 in 2024 or 3,000.00 from 2025 on. The FY2024 report describes the consultant's work in general terms, a committee, monthly meetings and a vigil. No contract, scope of work or deliverable for that consultant is in the records produced. The FY2025 report certifies 21,191.74 of administrative expense. That figure equals, to the cent, a run of payments from one opioid account, and 20,841.74 of that run went to this consultant.
undocumented-spending · 5 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2025 report answers No to whether the subdivision funded any new programs in the reporting year and lists no programs.
In the same period the two opioid spending accounts paid 12,092.50 for a memorial vigil. A media agency received 5,942.50 for vigil advertising and 5,800.00 for a vigil audio system. A photographer received 350.00 for vigil photos. The 21,191.74 the report certifies as spent equals, to the cent, the payments from the National Opioid Settlement Funds account through 07/23/2025. That account carried neither media agency payment. Either those payments funded a program the report omits or they funded nothing the Township is prepared to name.
misreported-programs · 3 documents · 09/22/2026The FY2023 report certifies 46,680.25 of opioid abatement funds expended as of 06/30/2023 and names one program, an Opioid Task force under Prevention and Education, described as educating residents of the harmfulness of these drugs.
The audit trails for all four opioid accounts, run for 01/01/2022 to 12/31/2026, show no payment of any kind before 03/14/2024. The only 46,680.25 in any of them is purchase order 24-00917, order date 03/14/2024, paid 03/14/2024, more than eight months after the certified as of date. That voucher is a township payroll run and the charged line is captioned by the Township itself as Opioid Grant Funds - Police Salaries. The certified figure, the certified category and the certified date are each contradicted by the Township's own records. The report is false.
phantom-program · 3 documents · 09/20/2026The FY2024 report certifies a program named Monroe Township Committee on Addiction, funded at 156,498.72 and expended at 73,662.75.
The two opioid spending accounts paid 57,480.25 in the FY2024 window and 46,680.25 of that is the police payroll charge. No payment and no combination of payments in either spending account reaches 73,662.75 in that window or in any other. The certified program expenditure does not exist in the books.
phantom-program · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 92,562.75 expended for 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024.
The audit trails for the two opioid spending accounts show 57,480.25 paid in that window, on five purchase orders. The report overstates the period by 35,082.50.
misreported-expenditure · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 18,900.00 of administrative expense for a period running 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024.
The vendor payment history shows 10,800.00 of consultant billing paid inside that period, on four invoices. The certified figure exceeds the in period billing by 8,100.00. The consultant's first seven invoices, at 2,700.00 each, total 18,900.00 and were paid 03/27/2024 through 09/25/2024, a run that crosses the period end by almost three months.
misreported-expenditure · 3 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 18,900.00 of administrative expense for a period running 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024.
The vendor payment history shows 18,900.00 is the consultant's calendar 2024 total to the cent. Only 10,800.00 of that consultant's billing was paid inside the FY2024 period. A calendar year vendor total was carried into a fiscal year certification.
misreported-expenditure · 3 documents · 09/11/2026The FY2025 report certifies 21,191.74 expended for 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025 and certifies all of it as administrative expense.
The audit trails show 37,292.50 paid from the two opioid spending accounts in that window. The report understates the period by 16,100.76. The certified figure equals, to the cent, every payment from the National Opioid Settlement Funds account from 09/25/2024 through 07/23/2025. It leaves out all 19,100.76 paid from the OPIOID GRANT FUNDS account in the period, including 11,742.50 to a media agency for a memorial vigil. It adds a 3,000.00 consultant payment made 07/23/2025, after the period closed.
misreported-expenditure · 2 documents · 09/23/2026Certified expenditures for FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 total 160,434.74.
Documented payments from the two opioid spending accounts through 06/30/2025 total 94,772.75. The reports claim 65,661.99 more spending than the Township's own audit trails record.
misreported-expenditure · 4 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report certifies 156,777.33 received cumulatively since 2022 and 57,446.98 unspent and uncommitted on hand.
Certified period expenditures for FY2023 and FY2024 total 139,243.00, which leaves 17,534.33. The FY2025 report certifies 212,898.96 received cumulatively and 73,791.16 unspent on hand. Certified period expenditures for FY2023 through FY2025 total 160,434.74, which leaves 52,464.22. The reported unspent balances exceed what the certified figures leave by 39,912.65 and by 21,326.94.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report states that the Township's committee distributed Narcan boxes in schools and other key locations.
No naloxone purchase appears in any of the four opioid accounts in any period covered by the audit trails, which run from 01/01/2022 to 08/19/2026. The claim has no support in the accounts.
unsupported-certification · 3 documents · 09/23/2026The payroll run of 03/14/2024 charged 388,718.98 of police full time salary to the current year and prior year police salary appropriations and 46,680.25 of the same run to the opioid settlement account.
The same run also charged 280.00 to a 2023 aggressive driving grant line, so the Township routinely allocates police payroll across grant lines. Absent the opioid account, the 46,680.25 would have fallen on the police salary and accumulated absence appropriations that carried every other dollar of that run. Reading the allocation as substitution of settlement funds for an existing funding source is an inference. The allocation itself is documentary.
funding-source-substitution · 1 document · 09/23/2026The consultant and the media agency have been paid 90,485.90 between them from the opioid accounts.
Their vendor payment histories for 01/01/2018 to 08/19/2026 show no payment from any other fund and no payment before the settlement money arrived. Neither vendor is a pre-existing cost moved onto the opioid account. The exposure on these two vendors runs to nexus and to the administrative certifications, not to supplantation.
vendor-baseline · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2025 report certifies 16,620.00 committed but not yet spent and 73,791.16 unspent and uncommitted on hand.
Two orders were open at 06/30/2025, a media agency order first encumbered 05/01/2025 and a consultant order of 3,000.00 first encumbered 06/30/2025. Read from the print, they total 16,620.00. The consultant order was paid 07/23/2025, and that payment is also inside the 21,191.74 the report certifies as spent. The 73,791.16 equals the balance of the National Opioid Settlement Funds account after that payment, 62,965.59, plus the balance of the 2025 OPIOD FUNDS account, 27,445.57, less the 16,620.00. Those two balances stood together only from 07/23/2025 to 08/13/2025. At 06/30/2025 the same arithmetic gives 76,791.16. The report counts the same 3,000.00 as spent and as committed, and the unspent figure is 3,000.00 lower as a result.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 09/23/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Phantom programs
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-01-23-100-000-018, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/14/2024 | 9961 | 24-00917 | TWP OF MONROE PAYROLL ACCOUNT · PAYROLL RUN #6-DATED 3/14/24 | 46,680.25 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 03/27/2024 | 209989 | 24-00947 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 05/22/2024 | 210490 | 24-01619 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/26/2024 | 210825 | 24-01657 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/26/2024 | 210825 | 24-02021 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/24/2024 | 211022 | 24-02329 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/28/2024 | 211278 | 24-02657 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Ser. Addiction Awareness | 2,700.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/06/2024 | Reference 52343 · McKinsey Opioid Settlement Funds | 11,379.58 | Receipt | ||
| 09/25/2024 | 211568 | 24-02849 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult. Ser. Addict Awareness | 741.74 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/25/2024 | 211568 | 24-02849 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult. Ser. Addict Awareness | 1,958.26 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/25/2024 | 211639 | 24-02167 | SPARK CREATIVE GROUP, LLC · Advertising for Memorial Vigil | 5,942.50 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/25/2024 | 211639 | 24-02265 | SPARK CREATIVE GROUP, LLC · Audio System Memorial Vigil | 5,800.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/09/2024 | 211754 | 24-02961 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY CURTIS BROWN · Photos for Memorial Vigil | 350.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/10/2024 | Reference 52539 · Endo - Public Opioid Trust | 9,857.87 | Receipt | ||
| 11/13/2024 | 212082 | 24-03343 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult.Ser. Addict Awareness | 2,100.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 02/26/2025 | 212982 | 25-00527 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Services | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 03/26/2025 | 213265 | 25-00765 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consult Services | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 04/15/2025 | Reference 53591 · Walgreens Opioid Funds Distribution | 7,431.36 | Receipt | ||
| 04/23/2025 | 213482 | 25-01016 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 05/14/2025 | 213637 | 25-01326 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/16/2025 | Reference 54001 · National Opioids Settlement Fund | 27,445.57 | Receipt | ||
| 06/25/2025 | 214053 | 25-01606 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/23/2025 | 214257 | 25-01944 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/14/2025 | Reference 54348 · Opioid Settlement funds CVS | 15,832.40 | Receipt | ||
| 08/14/2025 | Reference 54348 · Opioid Settlement funds Allergan | 8,956.29 | Receipt | ||
| 08/14/2025 | Reference 54348 · Opioid Settlement funds Teva | 8,601.59 | Receipt | ||
| 08/14/2025 | Reference 54348 · Opioid Settlement funds | 29,945.55 | Receipt | ||
| 08/27/2025 | 214470 | 25-02273 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/12/2025 | 214684 | 25-02614 | DANNY'S FARM MARKET, LLC · Memorial Vigil Flowers | 91.96 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/24/2025 | 214698 | 25-02605 | AMAZON.COM SERVICES, INC. · Office Supplies | 42.28 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/24/2025 | 214698 | 25-02605 | AMAZON.COM SERVICES, INC. · Memorial Vigil | 19.99 | Paid · Unverified |
| 09/24/2025 | 214714 | 25-02544 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service MTCAA/MCAA | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/02/2025 | 214833 | 25-02589 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY CURTIS BROWN · Photographer Memorial Vigil | 350.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/08/2025 | 214850 | 25-02770 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consulting Service-MCAA | 6,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/08/2025 | 214918 | 25-01314 | SPARK CREATIVE GROUP, LLC · Marketing/Project Management | 12,743.40 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/31/2025 | Reference 54782 · National Opioids Trust - Walmart | 629.46 | Receipt | ||
| 03/25/2026 | 216343 | 26-00852 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services March 2026 | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 04/08/2026 | 216456 | 26-00883 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services April 2026 | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 04/30/2026 | Reference 55831 · 2026 OPIOID FUNDS - WALGREENS PAYMENT 4 | 7,288.41 | Receipt | ||
| 05/13/2026 | 216684 | 26-01158 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services May 2026 | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/24/2026 | 217110 | 26-01714 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services June 2026 | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/22/2026 | 217304 | 26-01968 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services July 2026 | 3,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/03/2026 | open | 26-02309 | THE BLACK POSTER PROJECT · Full Exhibit Event 8/30/26 | 4,280.00 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 08/03/2026 | open | 26-02311 | SPARK CREATIVE GROUP, LLC · Black Poster Media/Graphics | 2,402.50 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 08/03/2026 | open | 26-02307 | CIVIC SOLUTIONS, LLC · Consul Services August 2026 | 3,000.00 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 08/18/2026 | open | 26-02453 | PHOTOGRAPHY BY CURTIS BROWN · Black Poster Photographer | 440.00 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| 08/18/2026 | open | 26-02434 | AMAZON.COM SERVICES, INC. · Overdose Awareness Support | 29.77 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| Total paid | 138,020.38 | ||||
| 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 $66,000.00, 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 Monroe Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 2 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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Monroe Township, Gloucester County
Monroe Township in Gloucester County certified 46,680.25 to the State as an opioid task force eight months before it paid anything, then paid that sum on a payroll line it captions Opioid Grant Funds - Police Salaries, and has paid a consultant 66,000.00 with no scope of work on record.