Jackson Township
- 01FY2024 unspent of 395,226.66 tops receipts of 336,230.4758,996.19
- 02Certified police supplies appear on no produced accountCertified against books conflict6,225.53
- 03Year end charge of 281,532.45 shows no credit side281,532.45
- 04The 2024 posting of 144,882.43 is not a payment144,882.43
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Jackson Township has received $467,409.55 in opioid settlement funds and no ledger spending is published yet. Its reports to the State certify $6,068.66 with no payee in the books.
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
- $112,270.15
filed
- Program name
- Medical Supplies/Life Saving Equipment
- Recipient
- Jackson Township
- Recipient category
- First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $395,226.66
- Received to date
- $336,230.47
filed
- Program name
- Medical Supplies/Life Saving Equipment
- Amount expended
- $6,068.66
- Unspent on hand
- $454,971.64
- Received to date
- $467,409.55
6 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 FY2024 report certifies 395,226.66 in unspent and uncommitted opioid funds on hand.
The same report certifies 336,230.47 received in total since distribution began. The balance on hand is 58,996.19 more than everything the Township says it received. The FY2025 report then certifies 467,409.55 received in total, 6,068.66 expended, 6,369.25 encumbered and 454,971.64 unspent, and those figures tie to the cent. The FY2024 figures do not. The report does not say which FY2024 figure is wrong.
unspent-misstated · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The FY2024 report lists one program, Medical Supplies/Life Saving Equipment, recipient Jackson Township, category First Responders, Law Enforcement, and Emergency Services, described as supplies needed by the Police Department in emergencies.
It certifies 6,225.53 funded and encumbered on 03/26/2024 under Harm Reduction and Overdose Prevention. The FY2025 report certifies 6,068.66 expended on it. Neither figure appears on any ledger page the Township produced. Both opioid appropriation accounts show 0.00 encumbered and one posting each. The account that carries the program, its purchase order, invoice and check were requested and not produced. What was bought is not shown anywhere in the record.
phantom-program · 4 documents · 09/23/2026On 12/17/2025 the Township charged 281,532.45 to 5-01-41-621-000-099 MISC OTHER EXPENSES, entry description GRANT-NATIONAL OPIOID SETTLEMENT, reference 3073.
It was one of eleven lines in a year end manual batch entered and updated under the single user id SLM. The other lines include accumulated sick leave of 60,000.00, bond interest of 35,862.50, a five year revaluation special emergency of 425,000.00 and sidewalks of 419,700.00, each charged to its own account. The report has one amount column and names no payee, purchase order or check. The account credited was requested in terms and was not produced. Whether the charge spent cash or only moved the balance cannot be read from the record, so this project does not count it as spending. The charge falls in the FY2026 reporting window, 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026. The State's FY2026 report file, published 10/01/2026, prints No Report Received for the Township.
journal-unsupported · 4 documents · 10/03/2026On 05/28/2024 journal reference 5441 debited 144,882.43 to 4-01-41-621-000-099 MISC OTHER EXPENSES and credited the same amount to 4-01-10-621-001 GRANT-NATIONAL OPIOID SETTLEMENT, a revenue account, both lines described NCASH '24 NATIONAL OPIOID SETTLEMENT.
The journal has no cash account, payee, purchase order or check. Thirteen other 2024 grants are booked the same way in the same journal. The entry recognizes the grant. It does not pay anyone, and it does not contradict the FY2024 report of 0.00 expended.
journal-recognition · 3 documents · 09/23/2026In journal reference 5441 two other grants, Clean Communities and Senior Assist, are carried into the 4-02 grant fund with a grant receivable, an appropriated reserve and an unappropriated reserve.
The opioid settlement is not. It is recognized as current fund revenue and charged to a current fund line named MISC OTHER EXPENSES, with no grant fund entry and no trust account in the journal. Reading this as money that is not held apart from general funds is an inference from the journal. No trust, reserve or cash account holding the 454,971.64 certified as unspent at 06/30/2025 was produced.
controls · 2 documents · 09/23/2026The Township appropriated 144,882.43 in 2024 and 281,532.45 in 2025, a total of 426,414.88.
The FY2025 report certifies 467,409.55 received in total through 06/30/2025. The appropriations are 40,994.67 less. Neither matches a year of receipts. FY2024 receipts of 223,960.32 exceed the 2024 appropriation by 79,077.89. The 2025 appropriation exceeds FY2025 receipts of 131,179.08 by 150,353.37. No produced record shows how either amount was set.
reconciliation-gap · 3 documents · 09/23/2026The ledger, as printed.
Account 4-01-41-621-000-099, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05/28/2024 | NCASH '24 NATIONAL OPIOID SETTLEMENT | 144,882.43 | Journal · Unverified | ||
| 12/17/2025 | GRANT-NATIONAL OPIOID SETTLEMENT | 281,532.45 | Journal · Unverified | ||
| Total paid | 0.00 | ||||
| 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.
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 Jackson 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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Jackson Township certified to the State a police supplies program funded with opioid settlement money, and the account that carries it was never produced. Its books show one year end charge of 281,532.45 with no vendor, no purchase order and no credit side produced.