Two people own ninety-one tasks for one evening, end to end.
The Lantern Ball is the annual fundraising dinner for Harborlight Family Services. This is the working board for the 2026 event, and most of it arrived already written.
The event is on Saturday 17 October at Mercantile Hall, the third year running at the same venue. The board holds 91 tasks across five lists (Venue and Logistics, Development, Guest Experience, Marketing, Auction), 38 of them closed, split between Delia Moreau, who manages events, and Trevor Quinn, who coordinates them. There is no third person on it.
The board was duplicated from the 2025 board on 6 July. Duplication carried the task names, the list structure, and the budget table on the overview page, including the note field under each budget row. Dates were retyped. Owners were reassigned. The budget was not.
17 October is contracted with the venue and printed on the save-the-date that mailed 21 July. Every other date on the board is a choice somebody made.
Each task has a Blocked by field naming other tasks by title. Nothing checks that a named blocker has a due date, or that it exists.
A nine-row table pasted into the plan's overview, each row carrying a status and a note. The note is where the arithmetic behind the figure sits.
Every task is assigned to Moreau or Quinn. The board has no second-owner or escalation field, so a task nobody is chasing looks exactly like a task somebody is.
What this brief could not check
- Exhibit B to the Mercantile Hall agreement, the house load-in and vendor access schedule, is named in the venue task and is not attached to the board. Whether a window has already been issued could not be checked.
- The Lantern Ball 2025 budget workbook is linked from the overview page and was not opened, so the $90 per head could not be traced past the note in row 4.
- The sponsorship deck that defines what each level is promised is referenced by two tasks and not attached, so what the printed program owes a sponsor is not established here.
- This brief was written by hand as a design fixture. It is modelled on real work, but no model read a diff to produce it, and its claims should not be relied on.