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Lehman Park finance discrepancies and July 4 gas outage prompt staff follow-up
Summary
Commissioners flagged mismatched May/June financial figures for Lehman Park and heard that the park briefly ran out of fuel on July 4; staff will reconcile spreadsheets and seek operational fixes including telemetry and vendor accountability.
At the start of agenda item 3.4, Speaker 1 and Speaker 4 noted inconsistencies between monthly and year-to-date launch-fee figures in the packet and asked staff to investigate. Speaker 4 suggested a spreadsheet or formula error and said staff would rerun reports to provide accurate financials.
Separately, Speaker 4 recounted that Lehman Park ran out of gas during the July 4 peak and described difficulty reaching the vendor over the holiday. He said a delivery recorded in the system showed only 180 gallons on July 3 while staff sold roughly 800 gallons around the holiday; the mismatch prompted concern about invoicing and pump logs. "This is like a $4,000 mistake," Speaker 4 said, and staff are seeking quotes for telemetry devices that would report tank levels to a dispatcher.
Members discussed near-term steps: reconcile the accounting discrepancies for May and June, review pump logs and vendor invoices, and obtain quotes for remote monitoring to reduce future outage risk. Staff will report corrected financials and proposed telemetry/operational fixes when available.
