The public account of the cliffside lift relies on the lift’s rope-change log and its passenger closure notices. A review of that source and the field notes finds a specific limit: the count can be repeated, but it does not include a wind bell on the upper landing that sounds when the lift is held for inspection.
Tavi Orr checked the lift’s rope-change log and its passenger closure notices against the field notes. The method is to trace a system from its control gate to the last household it is meant to serve; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The comparison covers 55 completed lift runs; 54 appear in the prior file. No signed correction to either entry was present when this review closed.
Hessi Varn, lift master on the east ascent, said the source register was complete for its stated purpose. The office has not provided a separate measure for how to keep the lift available to residents while its main rope is replaced, so the public record cannot yet show which account is more representative.
A full closure is safer and shorter; a staged closure preserves access but leaves less time for a second inspection. The current record does not settle that disagreement. This report does not establish that either side misstated the evidence. It establishes that the published total is narrower than the conclusion being drawn from it.
The clerk has matched the claim to its source register and named the missing record. The entry belongs to the opening docket file at the east cliff lift between the quarry road and the upper wards. The lift office will post a day-by-day access plan with the rope crew’s sign-off. The next file should preserve the original entries and explain any change in method.
