Wall Township
- 01Certified police gym gear as first responder mental health1,832.00
- 02Certified a 30,658.50 police gym as wellness services30,658.50
- 03Moved police gym purchases onto the settlement fund32,490.50
- 04Every dollar spent from the fund bought police gym gear32,490.50
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Wall Township has received $343,960.04 in opioid settlement funds and spent $32,490.50 of it.
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
- $69,413.55
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $207,882.06
- Received to date
- $207,882.06
filed
- Program name
- Police Wellness
- Recipient
- Township of Wall
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $30,658.50
- Unspent on hand
- $255,040.01
- Received to date
- $288,986.51
filed
- Program name
- Police Wellness
- Amount expended
- $1,832.00
- Unspent on hand
- $311,469.54
- Received to date
- $343,960.04
4 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 1,832.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1).
It says the year's spending focused on mental health of first responders dealing with opioid encounters, and that the Township relied on the list of Opioid Remediation uses regarding mental health of first responders (p2). Its one program is an update to Police Wellness, 1,832.00 spent, 70 participants served, no modifications (p4). The FY2025 report filed that program under Workforce Development and Capacity Building and the Schedule B strategy First Responders, with the primary problem First Responder Mental Health (FY2025 pp2 to 3). The books show lines 7 and 8 of purchase order 25-01653 to Fitness Lifestyles, Inc., both PD Gym Equipment, paid by check 72020 on 01/06/2026. Line 7, 930.00, is invoice O-3747-01 for ten yoga mats, a York machine bar and delivery and installation. Line 8, 902.00, is invoice O-3932-01 for muscle clamps, York kettlebells of 50 to 80 pounds and a BOSU ball. The two lines make the certified figure to the cent, and nothing else left the four settlement accounts in the year. Exhibit E's First Responders category adds two uses to the first-responder items in sections C, D and H, education about fentanyl and other drugs, and wellness and support services for first responders and others who experience secondary trauma associated with opioid-related emergency events. Unlike the other categories, it does not say its own list is not limited to those items. Yoga mats and kettlebells for the department gym are goods, not a service, and nothing in the record ties their use to officers who experienced such trauma. No counseling, peer support or other wellness service has been paid from the fund, and no listed use in C, D, H or I covers gym equipment.
program-misclassification · 6 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report lists one new program, Police Wellness, recipient Township of Wall, primary problem First Responder Mental Health (p2).
It describes the program as Provide a gym/wellness space for first responders, for a target population of first responders, law enforcement and other emergency responders. Its statement of impact repeats Exhibit E's own words, provision of wellness and support services for first responders and others who experience secondary trauma associated with opioid related emergency events (p3). It files the program under Workforce Development and Capacity Building and the Schedule B strategy First Responders, funded 33,946.50 and expended 30,658.50, with 70 participants (pp2 to 3). The books show purchase order 25-01653 to Fitness Lifestyles, Inc., ordered 04/11/2025, every line PD Gym Equipment, paid by check 70259 on 06/25/2025. Invoice O-3496-01 is two Body Craft T1200 treadmills, 9,800.00. Invoice O-3496-02 is weight trees, plyo boxes, a Smart Elite unit and a weight sled, 4,040.40. Invoice O-3496-03 is a York cable crossover, low row, lat pulldown and glute and ham bench, kettlebells, training bars, 40 rubber bumper plates, two varsity platforms with two custom platform logos, training ropes and 2,450.00 of delivery and installation, 18,650.10. Invoice O-3632-01 is weight trees, slam balls, a TRX trainer and a shrug bar, 1,369.80. Credit T-4340 takes back 3,201.80 of returned items. The five lines net to the certified figure to the cent. Every invoice is sold to the Wall Township Police Dept, and none names a counselor, a clinician, a peer support service or a wellness program. Exhibit E's workforce items cover addiction professionals and behavioral health workers who address opioid use disorder. Its First Responders category adds a closed list of two items to the first-responder items in sections C, D and H, and the one the report quotes supports wellness and support services for responders who experience secondary trauma from opioid emergencies. The report's own case for the program is that exercise lowers risk factors for opioid use disorder and improves mood, resilience and coping in officers' daily routine (p4). The report names a gym, but the category and the services wording do not describe it.
program-misclassification · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The vendor's payment history with the Township, all funds, paid 01/01/2018 to 08/28/2026, prints 44,045.96 on eleven purchase orders, and every invoice is sold to the Wall Township Police Dept.
Apart from the settlement order, the Township paid the vendor 11,555.46 for police gym equipment and its upkeep from three other sources. Police Operations paid 2,205.66, for annual preventative maintenance on the gym equipment in 2018 and 2020, treadmill repairs in 2020 and 2022, and a 120.00 repair to gym equipment ordered 04/09/2025. Police Promotion, Testing and Hiring paid 958.80 for two heavy bags in 2020. The Police Donations trust paid 8,091.00 for a rowing machine, a SkiErg and dumbbells of 5 to 100 pounds with racks, ordered 12/12/2023 to 03/04/2024 and paid 02/28/2024 and 04/24/2024, and 300.00 for preventative maintenance on 03/10/2026. On 04/11/2025, two days after the repair order on Police Operations, the Township ordered purchase order 25-01653 from the same vendor for PD Gym Equipment and charged it to the 2023 settlement account. That account paid 30,658.50 on 06/25/2025 and 1,832.00 on 01/06/2026 for treadmills, weight machines, free weights, mats and installation. The FY2025 report gives 04/09/2025 as the date the Police Wellness program was funded and launched. That is the order date of the 120.00 Police Operations repair, not of the settlement order. The settlement money paid for equipment in a police gym that the Township's own police lines and donations trust had equipped and maintained since 2018, and that the donations trust still maintains.
supplantation · 15 documents · 10/03/2026The Township appropriated 335,471.57 of settlement money to four accounts between 05/01/2023 and 01/01/2026, G-02-23-709-000-101 at 58,091.46, G-02-24-709-000-101 at 31,485.37, G-02-25-709-000-101 at 174,063.80 and G-02-26-709-000-101 at 71,830.94.
Through 08/28/2026 the four accounts paid 32,490.50, all of it on purchase order 25-01653 to Fitness Lifestyles, Inc. for PD Gym Equipment, and 302,981.07 remains unspent. The 2024, 2025 and 2026 accounts have paid nothing. No payment from any of them goes to treatment, recovery support, naloxone, prevention, a counselor or a wellness service. The FY2025 report says the program will be measured through participation rates, employee wellness surveys, fitness assessments, sick time and EAP referrals, and by tracking the opioid related incidents officers respond to against use of the wellness center (p3). No record in hand shows that tracking. The FY2026 report names the Police Chief and the Township Administrator as the officials involved in deciding how to spend the money, and says the Township is still determining the best use of the funds that is practical for its organization (pp2 to 3). No overdose program, and no wellness or support service for officers who experienced secondary trauma, using this equipment is documented. Gym equipment is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
non-conforming-spending · 9 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution · Police vehicles and gear
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-23-709-000-101, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/25/2025 | 70259 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 1,369.80 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/25/2025 | 70259 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 18,650.10 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/25/2025 | 70259 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment- Credit | -3,201.80 | Reversal · Non-conforming |
| 06/25/2025 | 70259 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 4,040.40 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/25/2025 | 70259 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 9,800.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/06/2026 | 72020 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 930.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/06/2026 | 72020 | 25-01653 | FITNESS LIFESTYLES, INC. · PD Gym Equipment | 902.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 35,692.30 | ||||
| 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 $32,490.50, 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 Wall 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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Wall Township has spent its opioid settlement money on one thing, equipment for the Police Department gym, and told the State in FY2025 and FY2026 that it was a wellness program for the mental health of first responders.