Chatham Township
- 01Certified 0.00 spent in FY2026 after paying 100.50100.50
- 02Same PSA spending reported as a new program and as 0.001,919.00
- 03Goggles program figure includes 1,500.00 of pouches1,500.00
- 04Certified a General Fund mailing moved onto the grant846.91
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Chatham Township has received $103,872.80 in opioid settlement funds and spent $7,716.41 of it. Its largest single year difference between the report and the books is $100.50.
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
- Public Education and Collaboration Campaign
- Recipient
- Chatham Township
- Amount expended
- $846.91
- Received to date
- $20,962.26
filed
- Program name
- PSA on Opioids and Narcan Distribution
- Recipient
- Township of Chatham
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $1,919.00
- Unspent on hand
- $56,662.58
- Received to date
- $62,778.49
filed
- Program name
- Public Education and Collaboration Campaign
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $4,850.00
- Unspent on hand
- $79,655.39
- Received to date
- $87,271.30
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $96,156.39
- Received to date
- $103,872.80
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 0.00 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 (p1, question 6) and answers No when asked whether the Township funded any program in the year (p3, question 17).
The account paid Rx Destroyer 100.50 on purchase order 26-00841, check 48453, on 04/28/2026, described as Shipping Fees For PO 24-02341, the disposal pouch order. The same report certifies 96,156.39 unspent on hand (p2, question 9). That is the FY2025 report's 79,655.39 on hand plus the 16,601.50 received in FY2026, less exactly 100.50. The report deducts the payment its spending answer says did not happen. Both answers cannot be true. The amount is small, and drug disposal is among the uses Exhibit E lists.
zero-certification · 5 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report lists one program, Public Education and Collaboration Campaign, described as a postcard mailing and public service announcement production with Narcan kit education, funded at 2,765.91 with 846.91 spent as of 06/30/2023 (p2).
It answers No when asked about other programs (p3). The FY2024 report then certifies a new program, PSA on Opioids and Narcan Distribution, funded 06/30/2023, at 1,919.00 expended (p3). Its update on the 2023 campaign says no modifications and a one-time event (p7). The FY2025 report's update on the 2023 campaign gives 0.00 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024 (p5). The books show the video producer's purchase order 23-01161, first encumbered 05/25/2023, paid 750.00 and 500.00 by check 44647, and MGL Printing's Narcan postcards on purchase order 23-01212 paid 669.00 by check 44646, first encumbered 06/02/2023, all paid on 08/16/2023. That is 1,919.00, and 846.91 plus 1,919.00 is the 2,765.91 the 2023 campaign was funded at, to the cent. The 2023 campaign's video and postcards were paid in FY2024. The reports put that spending in a new program and give the 2023 campaign 0.00 for the same year. Both cannot be true.
self-contradiction · 5 documents · 10/04/2026The FY2025 report certifies one program, Safe Decisions: Opioid Education Initiative, at 4,850.00 expended, recipient Chatham Twp Police Department (p3).
The program description and the goals answer describe only opioid impairment goggles for high school students. The goals answer says the police department purchased Fatal Vision Opioid Goggles (p2). The books show two purchases in the period. Innocorp purchase order 24-01375, check 45837 on 07/16/2024, is the Fatal Vision kit at 3,225.00 and shipping at 125.00, 3,350.00 in all. Rx Destroyer purchase order 24-02341, check 46493 on 12/31/2024, is 1,500.00 of drug deactivation pouches. Together they make the certified 4,850.00 to the cent. The report never mentions the pouches. A program certified as impairment goggles carries 1,500.00 of disposal pouches it does not describe. Drug disposal is among the uses Exhibit E lists. The finding is the description, not the use.
program-misclassification · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2023 report certifies 846.91 expended as of 06/30/2023 (p1, question 8).
Purchase order 23-01216, ordered 06/06/2023, buys an Opioid PSA Mailing from the US Postal Service for 846.91 and charges account 3-01-20-100-299, General Administration Miscellaneous. General Fund check 44324 paid it on 06/09/2023. The USPS order confirmation shows an Every Door Direct Mail drop-off of 4,481 pieces that day. On 06/30/2023, the last day of the reporting year, budget journal reference 1982, described as PO 23-01216 move charge to grant, took 846.91 off General Administration Miscellaneous and charged it to the settlement account G-01-60-788-023. It was the only movement on the account by that date. The certified figure is that journal to the cent. The produced records name no approver for the journal. Whether the move replaced local spending is not settled by the record.
year-end-reclass · 6 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Zero certification
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-01-60-788-023, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/30/2023 | move charge to grant | 846.91 | Paid · Conforming | ||
| 08/16/2023 | 44646 | 23-01212 | MGL PRINTING SOLUTIONS · Narcan Postcard and Bundle Fee | 669.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 08/16/2023 | 44647 | 23-01161 | ZACHARY BRESSLER · Staff/Camera/AudioLight/Prompt | 750.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 08/16/2023 | 44647 | 23-01161 | ZACHARY BRESSLER · Post Production Edit w Graphic | 500.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/16/2024 | 45837 | 24-01375 | INNOCORP LTD · SHIPPING/HANDLING | 125.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 07/16/2024 | 45837 | 24-01375 | INNOCORP LTD · FATAL VISION OPIOID PRG. KIT | 3,225.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 12/31/2024 | 46493 | 24-02341 | Rx DESTROYER · (4) RX4POUCH4X25 | 1,500.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 04/28/2026 | 48453 | 26-00841 | Rx DESTROYER · Shipping Fees For PO 24-02341 | 100.50 | Paid · Conforming |
| Total paid | 7,716.41 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 3,116.41 |
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 $3,350.00, 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 Chatham 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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Chatham Township has spent 7,716.41 of its opioid settlement money on public education, impairment goggles and drug disposal pouches, and its reports misdescribe where that money went in three of four years.