East Hanover Township
- 01Certified EMS equipment as prevention and training75,052.39
- 02Certified police window tinting as prevention education3,850.00
- 03Used settlement money for costs its budget had carried13,876.20
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
East Hanover Township has received $165,122.69 in opioid settlement funds and spent $89,099.89 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
- $37,428.59
filed
- Program name
- East Hanover
- Recipient
- Township of East Hanover
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $3,850.00
- Unspent on hand
- $129,986.01
- Received to date
- $105,199.86
filed
- Program name
- East Hanover
- Recipient
- Township of East Hanover
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Programs listed
- 2
- Amount expended
- $10,197.50
- Unspent on hand
- $122,287.16
- Received to date
- $135,373.64
filed
- Program name
- 2026 Opioid Program
- Recipient
- Township of East Hanover
- Recipient category
- County or Municipality (including Departments and Municipal Alliances)
- Amount expended
- $75,052.39
- Unspent on hand
- $59,007.32
- Received to date
- $165,122.69
3 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 one program, the 2026 Opioid Program, at 75,052.39 spent between 07/01/2025 and 06/30/2026 and 37,352.23 encumbered (pp4 to 6).
Its primary category is Primary Prevention, Education, and Training. Its Schedule B strategies are First Responders and Training. It describes the program as aid in responding to calls regarding opioid abuse and training for first responder personnel, and reports 25 people served. Its own primary problem reads Purchasing EMT Equipment and Supplies. The settlement accounts paid 75,052.39 in that year, the certified figure to the cent. Stryker Sales was paid 28,850.64 for EMS equipment on purchase order 25-01466, check 299498, 11/03/2025, and 23,675.55 on purchase order 25-02504, check 300761, 05/18/2026. V.E. Ralph and Son was paid 1,791.40 for a defibrillator on purchase order 25-01467, check 299070, 08/18/2025, and 8,234.80 for EMS supplies on purchase order 25-02503, check 299968, 01/27/2026. Donald Adams, LLC was paid 12,500.00 for the first and second quarter 2026 medical director on purchase order 26-01204, check 300812, 06/01/2026. No FY2026 line in the accounts describes training or education. The report's goals answer includes helping to train families and distribute Narcan. No line on the settlement accounts from 01/01/2019 to 09/08/2026 names naloxone or Narcan. The certified category describes a prevention, education and training program. The books show EMS equipment, EMS supplies and a medical director retainer. No overdose program using the equipment is documented, and EMS equipment is not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
program-misclassification · 4 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report certifies one program, named East Hanover, at 3,850.00 spent, funded and launched 01/19/2024 (pp2 to 3).
Its primary category is Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, and its Schedule B strategy is First Responders. The report gives both the primary problem and the program description as Tinting of Police Department Windows. Its statement of impact reads Help our Police Department with intake of prisoners and privacy. Its procurement answer says a vendor was selected to install tinting on the Police Department Building windows for privacy of intake of prisoners. It expects 0 clients a year. The account paid Tropic Window Tinting LLC 3,850.00 on purchase order 24-00071, described as police window tinting dated 11/13/2023, by check 295551 on 01/19/2024. That is the certified figure to the cent and the only payment in the year. Tinting the windows of a police building is not a prevention, education or training program. No overdose program using it is documented, and building improvements are not among the uses Exhibit E lists.
program-misclassification · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2024 report says the Police Chief, Health Officer and Township Administrator decided to keep the funds to offset costs from the Opioid Epidemic (Q11).
The FY2025 report says the Township is using the funds to purchase equipment as necessary for its new full-time Fire Department and EMT department (Q10). The vendor histories printed 09/08/2026 show the Township's own budget lines buying the same goods from the same vendors. V.E. Ralph and Son sold the Township defibrillators, AED pads and batteries, oxygen regulators, masks and other EMS supplies on Police, Fire, Buildings and Grounds, Emergency Management and Parks lines from 2018 to 2026. That includes police defibrillators for 15,234.20 on capital ordinance account C-04-55-983-002, paid 06/16/2020. The settlement accounts paid V.E. Ralph 1,791.40 for a defibrillator on 08/18/2025 and 8,234.80 for EMS supplies on 01/27/2026. In between, the Parks line paid V.E. Ralph 1,658.30 for a new defibrillator on 11/03/2025 and the Buildings and Grounds line paid 1,588.70 for another on 12/31/2025. Tropic Window Tinting was paid 1,655.00 from the Police Materials and Supplies line in 2019, including tint for a Ford and two hall windows, and 5,650.00 from Police Other Contractual Services on 12/12/2022 for an outer entry and a window wall. The settlement account paid it 3,850.00 to tint Police Department windows on 01/19/2024. The Township did not produce the appropriation history of these lines, so the record does not show whether local spending fell. That the settlement money took over costs the Township's budget carried is this project's inference from these records.
supplantation · 5 documents · 10/03/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution
The ledger, as printed.
Account G-02-41-721-001, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/2024 | 295551 | 24-00071 | TROPIC WINDOW TINTING LLC · TINT POLICE WINDOWS | 3,850.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 10/25/2024 | 297070 | 24-02030 | Catch You Later Foundation · Invc. 0001 9/20/24 | 1,000.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 10/25/2024 | 297119 | 24-02017 | Michael V's Luncheonette · Presentation October 15,2024 | 1,122.50 | Paid · Unverified |
| 02/21/2025 | 297835 | 25-00347 | MJPB CONSULTING LLC · SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT, 2/26/25 | 8,075.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 02/24/2025 | 297835 | 25-00347 | MJPB CONSULTING LLC · SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT, 2/26/25 | -8,075.00 | Reversal · Conforming |
| 02/24/2025 | 297893 | 25-00347 | MJPB CONSULTING LLC · SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT, 2/26/25 | 8,075.00 | Paid · Conforming |
| 08/18/2025 | 299070 | 25-01467 | V.E. RALPH & SON INC. · PURCHASE DEFIBRILLATOR | 1,791.40 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/03/2025 | 299498 | 25-01466 | STRYKER SALES LLC · PURCHASE EMS EQUIPMENT | 17,276.09 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/03/2025 | 299498 | 25-01466 | STRYKER SALES LLC · PURCHASE EMS EQUIPMENT | 5,900.98 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 11/03/2025 | 299498 | 25-01466 | STRYKER SALES LLC · PURCHASE EMS EQUIPMENT | 5,673.57 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/27/2026 | 299968 | 25-02503 | V.E. RALPH & SON INC. · PURCHASE EMS SUPPLIES | 3,611.32 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/27/2026 | 299968 | 25-02503 | V.E. RALPH & SON INC. · PURCHASE EMS SUPPLIES | 113.08 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/27/2026 | 299968 | 25-02503 | V.E. RALPH & SON INC. · PURCHASE EMS SUPPLIES | 4,400.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 01/27/2026 | 299968 | 25-02503 | V.E. RALPH & SON INC. · PURCHASE EMS SUPPLIES | 110.40 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/18/2026 | 300761 | 25-02504 | STRYKER SALES LLC · PURCHASE EMS EQUIPMENT | 23,336.00 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 05/18/2026 | 300761 | 25-02504 | STRYKER SALES LLC · PURCHASE EMS EQUIPMENT | 339.55 | Paid · Non-conforming |
| 06/01/2026 | 300812 | 26-01204 | DONALD ADAMS, LLC · 1st Qrt 2026 Medical Director | 6,250.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/01/2026 | 300812 | 26-01204 | DONALD ADAMS, LLC · 2nd Qrt 2026 Medical Director | 6,250.00 | Paid · Unverified |
| 06/12/2026 | open | 26-01367 | STRYKER SALES LLC · Quote 11283964 - Stretcher | 37,352.23 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| 07/17/2026 | open | 26-01367 | STRYKER SALES LLC · Quote 11283964 - Stretcher | 7.80 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| 09/08/2026 | open | 26-01367 | STRYKER SALES LLC · Quote 11283964 - Stretcher | 235.00 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| Total paid | 97,174.89 | ||||
| Conforming abatement spending | 16,150.00 |
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 $52,526.19, 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 East Hanover Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 4 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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East Hanover Township
East Hanover Township certified 75,052.39 of EMS equipment, EMS supplies and a medical director retainer to the State as a prevention, education and training program, after certifying police window tinting the same way in FY2024.