Carteret
- 01Certified 247,232.98 on hand after receiving 98,879.22148,353.76
- 02FY2025 encumbrance of 1,815.00 names no program1,815.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Carteret has received $171,104.15 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
- Opioid Prevention and Education
- Recipient
- Borough of Carteret
- Amount expended
- Not stated
- Received to date
- $57,440.33
filed
- Program name
- LEAD – Too Good For Drugs
- Recipient
- Borough of Carteret
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $8,587.50
- Unspent on hand
- $85,291.72
- Received to date
- $98,879.22
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $247,232.98
- Received to date
- $98,879.22
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $285,893.75
- Received to date
- $171,104.15
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 FY2025 report certifies 247,232.98 in unspent and uncommitted opioid funds on hand.
The same report certifies 98,879.22 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, including interest. The balance on hand is 148,353.76 more than everything the Borough says it ever received. The FY2024 report certifies 98,879.22 received, 8,587.50 expended and 5,000.00 encumbered, and its unspent figure of 85,291.72 is exactly 98,879.22 less those two amounts. The FY2025 report then certifies 0.00 received in the period, 0.00 of interest, 0.00 expended and 1,815.00 encumbered. On those figures the balance on hand could only have stayed level or fallen. It rose by 161,941.26. One of the certified figures is false. The report does not say which, and the Borough has produced no ledger.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2025 report certifies 1,815.00 appropriated or encumbered and not yet spent between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025.
It answers No to funding any new program and carries no update on either program listed the year before, so no program or recipient is named for the 1,815.00. The FY2024 report had listed Substance Abuse and Defeating Distractions, funded 05/02/2024 at 5,515.00 with 515.00 expended and 5,000.00 encumbered. The FY2025 report does not say what became of that 5,000.00. The same report certifies 0.00 received in the period while its cumulative receipts stay at 98,879.22. No ledger has been produced, so neither the encumbrance nor the zero receipts can be tested against the books.
encumbrance-unsupported · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The 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 Carteret 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