Hopewell Township
- 01Reported nothing committed with a 24,975.96 order open24,975.96
- 02Certified a 7,000.00 encumbrance no order supports7,000.00
- 03Filed a student assembly as diversion and re-entry9,000.00
- 04Filed student assemblies as overdose harm reduction13,000.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Hopewell Township has received $61,182.34 in opioid settlement funds and spent $50,312.36 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $0.20.
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
- Prevention and Treatment Awareness
- Recipient
- Hopewell Township
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $11,599.91
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $34,739.80
- Received to date
- $34,208.10
filed
- Program name
- One Pill Can Kill
- Recipient
- Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $9,000.00
- Unspent on hand
- $37,203.14
- Received to date
- $48,016.34
filed
- Program name
- One Pill Can Kill
- Recipient
- Hopewell Valley Municipal Alliance
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $16,336.20
- Unspent on hand
- $30,725.25
- Received to date
- $61,182.34
7 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 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for the period 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026 (p2).
On 06/26/2026 the Township encumbered purchase order 26-00896 for 24,975.96 to the Board of Fire Commissioners on settlement account X-02-00-920-948. The ledger line's only description is Utilize Opioid Settlement Fund. The order was open on 06/30/2026. Check 76961 paid it on 07/13/2026. The account also held 30,725.25 appropriated and unspent after its last FY2026 payment on 06/22/2026, so 0.00 matches neither the open order nor the unspent appropriation. The payment is the largest the account has made. The report names no fire district program, and no record produced states what the payment bought.
misreported-encumbrance · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies 0.00 expended and 7,000.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for the period 07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024 (p1).
It answers No when asked whether the Township funded any program that year (p2). The audit trail for account X-02-00-920-948, run from 01/01/2020, shows no purchase order before 24-01114, first encumbered 09/11/2024 and paid by check 73186 for 9,000.00 on 11/12/2024. No order was open on 06/30/2024. The only 7,000.00 on the account is check 75559 on purchase order 25-01263, ordered 11/13/2025 and paid 12/01/2025 to reimburse the school district for the October 2025 Speak Sobriety assembly. That payment came seventeen months after the period closed, on an order that did not yet exist.
fake-encumbrance · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report lists Speak Sobriety-Steven Hill at 9,000.00 funded and expended, funded 11/12/2024 and launched 10/10/2024 (p4).
It gives the primary category as Diversionary and Re-entry Support (p5). It lists individuals involved with the criminal justice system, individuals in treatment and pregnant and parenting individuals among the people served, and selects the Schedule B strategies Treat Opioid Use Disorder and Address the Needs of Criminal Justice-Involved Persons (pp4 to 5). It says the program uses medication-assisted treatment and integrated care (p5). The books show one payment. Check 73186 paid Hopewell Valley Regional School District 9,000.00 on 11/12/2024 on purchase order 24-01114. The order reads Reimburse HVRSD for assembly, 10/10/2024, Mental Health and Substance Abuse School Assembly, Breakout Sessions, Parent Program. The speaker's invoice bills the district for a school assembly, breakout sessions and a parent program. The report itself says the Coordinator suggested hiring Speak Sobriety to present in the schools (p6). No diversion, re-entry, treatment or criminal justice service is documented. The payment bought a school prevention assembly, and the report files it under a category for people involved with the justice system.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2026 report lists Speak Sobriety-Steven Hill at 13,000.00 funded and spent, target population high school aged children, two events (p8).
It gives the primary category as Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention (p9). It says the program aimed to offer comprehensive post-treatment support to aid in recovery and describes a lecture series for residents (pp9 to 10). The books show two payments to Hopewell Valley Regional School District. Check 75559 paid 7,000.00 on 12/01/2025 on purchase order 25-01263, Reimburse HVRSD for assembly, topic Sobriety Speaks. The district's order to the speaker is for a keynote assembly and breakout sessions on opioid prevention education for 8th grade students. Check 76839 paid 6,000.00 on 06/22/2026 on purchase order 26-00839, Reimb. Opioid Assemblies held. Together they make the certified figure to the cent. Both payments reimburse student prevention assemblies. Exhibit E's harm reduction category lists naloxone, overdose response training, syringe service programs and similar services, and a school assembly is not among them. No post-treatment or recovery service paid from the account is documented.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2026 report certifies 61,182.34 received since 2022, interest included (p1).
The Township's reports certify 0.00 spent in FY2023 and FY2024, 9,000.00 in FY2025 and 16,336.20 in FY2026, 25,336.20 in all, with no administrative spending and no transfer. That leaves 35,846.14. The FY2026 report certifies 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent and 30,725.25 unspent and uncommitted on hand (p2). Together those account for 30,725.25, which is 5,120.89 less than the report's own receipts less its own spending. The FY2025 report's figures did add up. Its 48,016.34 received less 9,000.00 spent equals its 1,813.20 encumbered plus its 37,203.14 unspent. The 30,725.25 is the running balance on settlement account X-02-00-920-948 after check 76839 of 06/22/2026, before the 24,975.96 fire district order of 06/26/2026. It is an appropriation balance, not the money received less the money spent.
self-contradiction · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2024 report certifies 34,208.10 received since distribution began in 2022 (p1).
That is the 11,599.91 the FY2023 report certifies received, plus 22,032.11 received in FY2024 and 576.08 of interest, so the interest is already inside it. Both reports certify 0.00 expended, and the account paid nothing before 11/12/2024. The FY2024 report then certifies 34,739.80 unspent and uncommitted on hand (p1). That is 531.70 more than everything the Township had received. The same report also certifies 7,000.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent, so its figures account for 41,739.80 out of 34,208.10.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2025 report certifies 9,000.00 expended between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1) and a program named Speak Sobriety-Steven Hill at 9,000.00 expended, funded 11/12/2024 (p4).
Check 73186 paid Hopewell Valley Regional School District 9,000.00 on 11/12/2024 on purchase order 24-01114, to reimburse the Hill Speaks LLC school assembly, breakout sessions and parent program of 10/10/2024. It is the only payment in the period. The report also certifies 1,813.20 encumbered (p1). Purchase order 25-00830 for One Pill Can Kill advertising, 943.20 and 870.00, was ordered 06/27/2025 and paid by check 74654 on 07/14/2025.
accurate-certification · 3 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Fake encumbrances
The ledger, as printed.
Account X-02-00-920-948, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/12/2024 | 73186 | 24-01114 | Hopewell Valley Regional School District · Reimburse HVRSD for assembly | 9,000.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 07/14/2025 | 74654 | 25-00830 | Hopewell Valley Regional School District · Reimb Opioid ad campaign | 943.20 | Paid · Conforming |
| 07/14/2025 | 74654 | 25-00830 | Hopewell Valley Regional School District · Reimb Opioid ad campaign | 870.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 12/01/2025 | 75559 | 25-01263 | Hopewell Valley Regional School District · Reimburse HVRSD for assembly | 7,000.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 06/22/2026 | 76839 | 26-00839 | HOP04 HOPEWELL VALLEY REG SCHOOL DIS · Reimb. Opioid Assemblies held | 6,000.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 06/22/2026 | 76839 | 26-00839 | HOP04 HOPEWELL VALLEY REG SCHOOL DIS · Ad Campaign against Opioid | 1,523.20 | Paid · Conforming |
| 07/13/2026 | 76961 | 26-00896 | FIR02 BD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS · Utilize Opioid Settlement Fund | 24,975.96 | Paid · Unverified |
| Total paid | 50,312.36 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 25,336.40 |
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 $24,975.96, 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 Hopewell Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 5 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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Hopewell Township
Hopewell Township spent its first 25,336.40 of settlement money on school prevention assemblies and a counterfeit pill ad campaign, filed the assemblies as re-entry and harm reduction programs, then committed 24,975.96 to its fire district with no stated purpose and told the State nothing was committed.