diff --git a/scripts/maintenance/computational-clusters/autoscaled_monitor/dask.py b/scripts/maintenance/computational-clusters/autoscaled_monitor/dask.py
index 750ef816bc86..d6ca45ba7a3d 100644
--- a/scripts/maintenance/computational-clusters/autoscaled_monitor/dask.py
+++ b/scripts/maintenance/computational-clusters/autoscaled_monitor/dask.py
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ async def dask_client(
         )
 
     try:
-
         async with contextlib.AsyncExitStack() as stack:
             if instance.public_ip_address is not None:
                 url = AnyUrl(f"tls://{instance.public_ip_address}:{_SCHEDULER_PORT}")
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ async def trigger_job_cancellation_in_scheduler(
     task_id: TaskId,
 ) -> None:
     async with dask_client(state, cluster.primary.ec2_instance) as client:
-        task_future = distributed.Future(task_id)
+        task_future = distributed.Future(task_id, client=client)
         cancel_event = distributed.Event(
             name=TASK_CANCEL_EVENT_NAME_TEMPLATE.format(task_future.key),
             client=client,
@@ -112,13 +111,13 @@ def _list_tasks(
 
         return dict(task_state_to_tasks)
 
-    list_of_tasks: dict[TaskState, list[TaskId]] = []
+    list_of_tasks: dict[TaskState, list[TaskId]] = {}
     try:
-        list_of_tasks = await client.run_on_scheduler(
-            _list_tasks
-        )  # type: ignore
+        list_of_tasks = await client.run_on_scheduler(_list_tasks)  # type: ignore
     except TypeError:
-        rich.print(f"ERROR while recoverring unrunnable tasks using {dask_client=}. Defaulting to empty list of tasks!!")
+        rich.print(
+            f"ERROR while recoverring unrunnable tasks using {dask_client=}. Defaulting to empty list of tasks!!"
+        )
     return list_of_tasks