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Council adopts budget amendment to cover $15,624 Lucas device after invoice confusion
Summary
The Boulder City Council adopted Resolution 2024-12 to cover a $15,624.46 invoice from Stryker for a Lucas CPR device. Ambulance staff sought clarity on how the purchase was approved and the city clerk said the invoice had not been submitted before a collections call was received.
During a public hearing Nov. 18, ambulance staff asked the Boulder City Council to explain how a Lucas mechanical CPR device purchased in August 2023 came to appear as a $15,624.46 invoice.
Ambulance Assistant Director Molly Carey requested an explanation of how the expense was approved. Council President Drew Dawson told the council the purchase had been approved when Interim Ambulance Director Jack Trethewey presented his budget upon hire. City Clerk/Treasurer Rosemary Perna said the invoice had never been submitted to the clerk’s office for payment and that she later received a collections call from the vendor, Stryker. Perna said she did not believe the city could return the device because more than a year had passed.
After discussion, the council moved to adopt Resolution 2024-12 to amend the fiscal-year budget and account for the ambulance expense. The motion to adopt, made by Drew Dawson and seconded by Mike Taylor, carried with four aye votes.
The hearing record shows staff and council treated the matter as a bookkeeping and budget-approval issue: Dawson framed the purchase as previously approved as part of the interim director’s budget presentation, Perna described the administrative lapse in invoicing, and Carey sought clarity on oversight and approval procedures. The resolution adopted at the Nov. 18 meeting implements the budget amendment; the transcript does not record any further disciplinary or procurement-action directives.
