Funding-source substitution

Bought a LUCAS device ten months after a capital one

$28,932.62

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalOcean

Funding-source substitution · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 5 documents

Check 114338 on 07/18/2025 paid Stryker Sales Corporation 29,480.29 for a LUCAS 3 chest compression system on purchase order 24-03146, charged to FIRE DEPT NEW EQUIPMENT, capital account C-04-55-331-501. Check 116305 on 03/26/2026 paid 3,148.40 for a five year LUCAS field repair ProCare plan from PS/RESCUE SERVICES-PROFESSIONAL, 6-01-25-720-211 (Stryker check register pages 1 and 2). Check 116669 on 05/21/2026 paid the same vendor 28,932.62 for another LUCAS chest compression system on purchase order 26-00694, charged to the settlement account G-02-40-181-281. The City had bought LUCAS suction cups and a LUCAS 3 battery from V.E. Ralph on its own lines from 2022 to 2024 (V.E. Ralph check register pages 19, 21, 31 and 32). A LUCAS device gives mechanical chest compressions in cardiac arrest. No overdose program using it is documented, and mechanical CPR devices are not among the uses Exhibit E lists. The FY2026 report, page 14, certifies this payment inside its AED and CPR Equipment update.