Eatontown
- 01FY2024 report lists 60,697.39 more on hand than received60,697.39
- 02FY2025 report lists 12,654.28 more on hand than received12,654.28
- 03FY2026 total received is 12,654.28 above its own receipts12,654.28
- 04Certified 25,997.70 of police training as administration25,997.70
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Eatontown has received $208,114.10 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
- $38,932.84
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $171,407.92
- Received to date
- $110,710.53
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $21,230.52
- Unspent on hand
- $170,641.02
- Received to date
- $157,986.74
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $4,767.18
- Unspent on hand
- $182,116.40
- Received to date
- $208,114.10
5 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 FY2023 report certifies 38,932.84 received as of 06/30/2023 and 0.00 expended (p1).
The FY2024 report certifies 71,163.28 received between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 and 614.41 of interest since 2022. It certifies 110,710.53 received since 2022, which is those three figures to the cent (p1). It certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 administrative for the year, and answers No when asked whether the Borough funded any program (p1, p2). It then certifies 171,407.92 unspent and uncommitted on hand (p1). That is 60,697.39 more than everything the Borough says it ever received. Both figures cannot be true. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 157,986.74 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, including interest (p1).
It certifies 21,230.52 expended and 0.00 encumbered between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 (p1). The FY2023 and FY2024 reports certify 0.00 expended. By the Borough's own figures, 136,756.22 was left. The report certifies 170,641.02 unspent and uncommitted on hand (p1). That is 12,654.28 more than everything the Borough says it received, and 33,884.80 more than its own figures leave after the year's spending. The same 157,986.74 is the three years of payments with no interest. It leaves out the 614.41 of interest the FY2024 report certified. No ledger has been produced.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 157,986.74 received since 2022 (p1).
The FY2026 report certifies 37,473.08 received and 0.00 of interest between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1). Carrying the Borough figure forward gives 195,459.82. The FY2026 report certifies 208,114.10 received since 2022 (p1). That is 12,654.28 more. It is the FY2025 balance on hand of 170,641.02 plus the 37,473.08, to the cent, so the balance has been carried forward as money received. The four reports certify 195,459.82 of payments and 614.41 of interest, 196,074.23 in all. The FY2026 figure is 12,039.87 above that. The report then certifies 182,116.40 on hand (p2), which is 208,114.10 less the 25,997.70 certified spent in FY2025 and FY2026. No ledger has been produced.
cumulative-contradiction · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report certifies 21,230.52 expended between 07/01/2024 and 06/30/2025 and the same 21,230.52 as administrative expenses.
It describes them as a police officer attending the "Strategies of Opioid disorder" certificate class (p1). The FY2026 report certifies 4,767.18 expended and the same 4,767.18 as administrative expenses, described as "Police Officer training" (p1, p2). It gives the year's goal as "training" (p2) and answers No when asked whether the Borough funded any program (p3). The FY2025 report also answers No to funding any new program (p2). Every dollar the Borough has certified as spent, 25,997.70 over two years, is police training filed as administration. Training is a program cost. Filed as administration it has no program block, no recipient, no category and no count of people trained. No ledger has been produced, so no payee, invoice or check is on the record.
program-misclassification · 2 documents · 10/03/2026Asked which resources the Borough used when deciding to spend opioid abatement funds between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026, the FY2026 report answers "A strategic Plan" (p2).
Asked whether the Borough has a strategic plan for the funds, the same report answers No (p3). The FY2023, FY2024 and FY2025 reports each answer No to the same question (FY2023 p1, FY2024 p2, FY2025 p2). No strategic plan appears in any record produced. Both FY2026 answers cannot be true.
self-contradiction · 4 documents · 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 Eatontown tell the State it spent the money on?
No certified program is published for this jurisdiction yet. When a report is captured, each program appears here 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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Eatontown Borough has told the State it holds more opioid settlement money than it ever received, and it has filed every dollar it spent as administration.