Bayonne
- 01FY2026 on hand figure leaves out 1,603,774.241,603,774.24
- 02Certified a fire decontamination tent as prevention41,612.24
- 03FY2025 certified 229,401.69 committed, its program 186.31229,215.38
- 04FY2024 on hand figure 141,076.06 short with nothing spent141,076.06
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Bayonne has received $2,120,253.10 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
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $422,343.55
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $1,185,883.67
- Received to date
- $1,326,959.73
filed
- Program name
- LEADS Program
- Recipient
- Bayonne Police Department
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances); Schools, Colleges, Universities
- Amount expended
- $233,349.42
- Unspent on hand
- $1,262,481.31
- Received to date
- $1,837,123.66
filed
- Program name
- Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
- Recipient
- Bayonne Fire Department
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 3
- Amount expended
- $43,184.24
- Unspent on hand
- $239,945.20
- Received to date
- $2,120,253.10
6 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 2,120,253.10 received since 2022, 283,129.44 of it between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, and 43,184.24 spent in that period (p1).
It certifies 0.00 encumbered, 0.00 administrative and 239,945.20 of unspent or uncommitted funds from any reporting year on hand (p2). The three earlier reports certify 0.00 spent through 06/30/2024 and 233,349.42 spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025. On the City's own reports, 276,533.66 was spent and 1,843,719.44 was left. The certified 239,945.20 is the year's receipts less the year's spending, to the cent, and is 1,603,774.24 less than the reports leave. The FY2025 report certified 1,262,481.31 on hand at 06/30/2025. Carried forward with the FY2026 receipts and spending, that gives 1,502,426.51. The FY2026 figure leaves out the whole prior balance. The City has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report lists a program named DeCon Tent, recipient Bayonne Fire Department (p8).
Its purpose is to "Purchase a decontamination tent to protect first responders." Its target population is first responders, law enforcement and other emergency responders, and it reports 12 individuals served (p8). Its performance indicator is "Protect first responders from opioid contamination" (p9). It files the tent under the primary category Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, with the Schedule B strategies First Responders, Leadership, Planning and Coordination, and Training (p9). It certifies 41,612.24 funded and spent, funded and launched 4/2/2026 (p8). Exhibit E's prevention category names media campaigns, school and youth prevention programs, coalitions and drug take-back. Its First Responders category adds two items, education on fentanyl precautions and wellness services for responders. No listed use covers a decontamination tent, and no overdose program using it is documented. The City has produced no ledger, so the payment behind the figure cannot be traced.
program-misclassification · 1 document · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 233,349.42 expended and 229,401.69 appropriated or encumbered but not spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1).
It reports one program, the LEADS Program, recipient Bayonne Police Department, funded 233,535.73, with 233,349.42 expended and 186.31 encumbered (p3, p4). The program's spending equals the certified total. Its encumbrance is 229,215.38 less than the certified total, and no other program carries the difference. The FY2026 report certifies 0.00 encumbered (p2). Its 43,184.24 of spending is two Fire Department purchases funded in April 2026 and a 799.00 LEADS printer (p6 to p10). Nothing in it accounts for the rest of the 229,401.69. The City has produced no ledger.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 1,326,959.73 received since 2022 and 0.00 of interest (p1).
It certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p1), and answers No to funding any program (p2). The FY2023 report certifies 0.00 expended as of 06/30/2023 (p1). On the City's own reports, nothing was spent or committed and 1,326,959.73 was left. The FY2024 report certifies 1,185,883.67 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand (p1). That is 141,076.06 less than everything the City says it received. The City has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 1,837,123.66 received since 2022, 233,349.42 expended and 229,401.69 encumbered between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1).
The two earlier reports certify 0.00 expended. On the City's own reports, 1,603,774.24 was left on 06/30/2025, and 1,374,372.55 after setting aside the encumbered figure. The FY2025 report certifies 1,262,481.31 of unspent or uncommitted funds on hand (p1), 111,891.24 less. It also disagrees with the year before. The FY2024 report certified 1,185,883.67 on hand. Add the 510,163.93 received in FY2025 and take away the spent and encumbered figures, and 1,233,296.49 remains. The FY2025 figure is 29,184.82 higher than that.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2026 report lists a program named Automated External Defibrillator (AED), recipient Bayonne Fire Department (p6).
Its description is defibrillator supplies to combat overdose deaths. It certifies 773.00 funded and spent, funded and launched 4/28/2026, one time only (p6). Its intended impact is to "Save residents from cardiac deaths due to substance abuse," and it reports 40 individuals served (p7). It files the purchase under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention, with the Schedule B strategy Prevent Overdose Deaths and Other Harms (p7). An AED treats cardiac arrest. Exhibit E names naloxone and other drugs that treat overdoses, not defibrillators. No overdose program using this equipment is documented, and no listed use covers it. The City has produced no ledger, so the payment behind the figure cannot be traced.
program-misclassification · 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 Bayonne 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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Bayonne City has received 2,120,253.10 in opioid settlement money, has produced no ledger, and its reports to the State cannot agree on how much of that money is left.