Pennsville Township
- 01Certified 37,061.61 on hand after receiving 26,103.0010,958.61
- 02FY2024 spent 2,615.10 and reports no program funded2,615.10
- 03Only program is 2,615.10 for a police National Night Out2,615.10
- 042,615.10 spent of 26,103.00 received through FY202523,487.90
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Pennsville Township has received $36,361.89 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
- Program name
- National Night Out
- Recipient
- Pennsville Police Department
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Received to date
- $7,005.65
filed
- Program name
- National Night Out
- Amount expended
- $2,615.10
- Unspent on hand
- $15,883.62
- Received to date
- $11,169.61
filed
- Program name
- National Night Out
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $37,061.61
- Received to date
- $26,103.00
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $36,000.00
- Received to date
- $36,361.89
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 FY2025 report certifies 37,061.61 in unspent and uncommitted opioid funds on hand.
The same report certifies 26,103.00 received since the distribution commenced in 2022, including interest, and 0.00 of interest in the period. The balance on hand is 10,958.61 more than everything the Township says it ever received. The three reports certify 2,615.10 expended in all, 0.00 as of 06/30/2023, 2,615.10 in FY2024 and 0.00 in FY2025. On those figures no more than 23,487.90 could be on hand, and the certified balance is 13,573.71 higher. The FY2024 report has the same gap. It certifies 11,169.61 received since 2022, 0.00 of interest, 2,615.10 expended and 0.00 encumbered, and certifies 15,883.62 on hand. That is 4,714.01 more than everything received and 7,329.11 more than its own figures leave. Between the two reports the balance on hand rose by 21,177.99 while the FY2025 report certifies 14,933.39 received and nothing spent. One of the certified figures is false. The reports do not say which, and no ledger of the Township's opioid account is on file.
unspent-misstated · 3 documents · 09/24/2026The FY2024 report certifies 2,615.10 expended between 07/01/2023 and 06/30/2024, and answers No when asked whether the Township funded any programs with opioid abatement funds in that year.
The program the money went to was funded inside that year. The FY2023 report lists one program, National Night Out, with recipient Pennsville Police Department, funded 07/28/2023 at 2,615.10 and launched 08/01/2023. Both dates fall after 06/30/2023, the date that report certifies 0.00 expended as of. The FY2024 report says the money spent was on education and that the education was provided at the National Night Out event in August 2023. So the one program the Township has reported was funded and paid in FY2024, is listed in the FY2023 report, and is left out of the FY2024 answer on programs funded.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 09/24/2026The only program the Township has reported to the State is National Night Out.
The recipient is the Pennsville Police Department and the amount is 2,615.10. The FY2023 report describes it as bringing awareness to addiction during a community event, gives its duration as once a year and certifies it under Prevention and Education. It answers N/A to clients seen, to the performance indicators tracked, to the statement of impact and to how success will be measured. The FY2024 report certifies the 2,615.10 as expended and reports 75 participants served and a reduction of 3 in opioid-related incidents for the program. It gives no basis for the reduction. The FY2025 report repeats both numbers. Exhibit E names prevention programs, including community education, that are evidence-based or evidence-informed. None of the three reports describes such a program behind the event. No ledger of the Township's opioid account is on file, so what the 2,615.10 paid for cannot be tested against the books.
misreported-programs · 3 documents · 09/24/2026The Township's three reports to the State certify 26,103.00 received through 06/30/2025 and 2,615.10 expended, all of it in FY2024 on one National Night Out event.
On those figures 23,487.90 was unspent at 06/30/2025. The FY2025 report certifies 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and 0.00 on administration, and answers No to funding any new program. Asked in the same report how it decided to use the money, the Township answered that it had not come up with a plan yet. The FY2023 report answers No to having a strategic plan, and the FY2024 and FY2025 reports answer that there is none yet. All three answer No to having completed a risk assessment. The FY2025 report answers No, but plan to in the future, on engaging the public before deciding how to use the funds. The FY2026 report, published 10/01/2026, certifies 10,258.89 more received, 36,361.89 in all, and again 0.00 expended, 0.00 encumbered and No to funding any program. Asked which officials decided how to spend the funds that year, it answered nothing spent yet.
funds-unspent · 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 Pennsville Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 3 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