Hillside Township
- 01Certified Juneteenth entertainment as opioid prevention1,100.00
- 02Opened a 4,000.00 order for a second Juneteenth act4,000.00
- 03Juneteenth was a Township event before settlement money5,100.00
- 04FY2025 report puts Juneteenth at 1,100.00 and at 0.001,100.00
What the reports say,
and what the books show.
Hillside Township has received $50,223.92 in opioid settlement funds and spent $1,100.00 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
- $35,913.06
filed
- Programs listed
- none
- Amount expended
- $0.00
- Unspent on hand
- $35,913.06
- Received to date
- $35,913.06
filed
- Program name
- Juneteenth
- Recipient
- Township of Hillside
- Recipient category
- Others: Township of Hillside
- Amount expended
- $1,100.00
- Unspent on hand
- $49,123.92
- Received to date
- $50,223.92
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 1,100.00 expended between 7/1/2024 and 6/30/2025.
It lists one program. The program is named Juneteenth. The recipient is the Township of Hillside. The primary problem it addresses is "Celebrate Juneteenth." The program description is "Annual celebration of Juneteenth." The primary category is Primary Prevention, Education, and Training, and the Schedule B strategy named is Connections to Care. The program's statement of impact reads "Taking the opportunity to inform the public about opioid abuse during an annual event." The report names literature distribution as its measure. The opioid settlement account, 02-2131-41-5700-022, carries one purchase order in the period. It is 25HLSDPORD118795, dated 06/18/2025, to Taj Entertainment LLC for 1,100.00, described as "ENTERTAIMENT FOR JUNETEENTH - MAYOR'S OFFICE." The certified figure equals the purchase order to the cent. No literature or other purchase appears on the account. No evidence-based or evidence-informed program is documented, and festival entertainment is not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The listing shows no paid status, check number or payment date.
false-characterization · 2 documents · 09/26/2026Purchase order 25HLSDPORD119250, dated 08/13/2025, is a 4,000.00 order on the opioid settlement account, 02-2131-41-5700-022.
The payee is Knights for a Cause, Inc. The description reads "#117 - MAYOR'S OFFICE - RE: JUNETEENTH ENTERTAINMENT - UNDERGROUNG EXPERIENCE." The listing shows no paid status, check number or payment date, so this project carries the order as an open commitment, not as money spent. With the 1,100.00 Taj Entertainment order, 5,100.00 of the 5,350.00 ordered on the account is Juneteenth entertainment for the Mayor's Office. No evidence-based or evidence-informed program is documented, and festival entertainment is not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The order is dated in the FY2026 period, 07/01/2025 to 06/30/2026. The State's FY2026 report file, published 10/01/2026, prints No Report Received for the Township.
non-conforming-order · 3 documents · 10/03/2026The FY2025 report gives the Juneteenth program a launch date of 06/16/2023.
The Township's purchase order listing, PO dates 01/06/2022 to 06/01/2026, shows Juneteenth purchases in each year before the settlement account bought anything. They are banners for 420.00 on PO 110135 dated 06/20/2022, T-shirts for 792.23 on PO 112912 dated 06/12/2023, a 56.00 Mayor's Office order on PO 113821 dated 09/28/2023, balloons for 410.00 on PO 116076 dated 06/17/2024, a 79.94 reimbursement on PO 116078 dated 06/18/2024 and a plaque for 120.00 on PO 116143 dated 06/28/2024. None of them is on the opioid settlement account listing. In 2025 the same listing shows three Taj Entertainment orders of 1,100.00 each dated 06/18/2025, POs 118793, 118794 and 118795, plus a balloon arch for 600.00, decorations for 116.13 and a 44.95 reimbursement for water and ice on PO 118867 dated 07/03/2025. Only 118795 is on the settlement account. The listing has no account column, so it does not show which fund paid the other orders or whether all three Taj orders were paid. The settlement account carries the 1,100.00 Taj order, which the FY2025 report certifies as expended, and an open 4,000.00 Juneteenth order to Knights for a Cause, Inc. dated 08/13/2025 that the listing does not show as paid. That the settlement money took over part of a cost the Township already carried is this project's inference from these records.
supplantation · 3 documents · 09/26/2026The FY2025 report certifies 1,100.00 expended in the period and 0.00 encumbered.
It certifies 49,123.92 unspent, which is the 50,223.92 received since 2022 less that 1,100.00. The program block for Juneteenth reports 1,100.00 as the amount of funding and 0.00 as the amount expended and 0.00 encumbered. The two pages of one report give two different spent figures for the same program. The account carries one purchase order in the period, 1,100.00 to Taj Entertainment LLC dated 06/18/2025.
self-contradiction · 2 documents · 09/25/2026Patterns this jurisdiction appears in: Funding-source substitution
The ledger, as printed.
Account 01-1920-10-0032-024, as printed from the jurisdiction's own accounting system. Classification follows the Exhibit E gates.
| Date | Check | PO | Payee and description | Amount | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/18/2025 | 25HLSDPORD118795 | TAJ ENTERTAINMENT LLC · ENTERTAIMENT FOR JUNETEENTH - MAYOR'S OFFICE | 1,100.00 | Paid · Non-conforming | |
| 08/13/2025 | open | 25HLSDPORD119250 | KNIGHTS FOR A CAUSE, INC. · #117 - MAYOR'S OFFICE - RE: JUNETEENTH ENTERTAINMENT - UNDERGROUNG EXPERIENCE | 4,000.00 | Open encumbrance · Non-conforming |
| 08/13/2025 | open | 25HLSDPORD119251 | KIM D. LOFTON · #0858 - DTD AUGUST 2, 2025 -SERVICE PROVIDED FOR OVERDOSE AWARENESS | 250.00 | Open encumbrance · Unverified |
| Total paid | 1,100.00 | ||||
| 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.
Full width is $1,100.00, 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 Hillside Township tell the State it spent the money on?
It certified 1 program 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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Hillside Township
Hillside Township certified 1,100.00 of Juneteenth festival entertainment to the State as an opioid prevention program named Juneteenth, then opened a 4,000.00 order for a second Juneteenth act on its settlement account.