diff --git a/server/src/index.ts b/server/src/index.ts
index 7ceed95cb9f..63e1e5d6809 100644
--- a/server/src/index.ts
+++ b/server/src/index.ts
@@ -1786,12 +1786,6 @@ async function startServerWithDatabaseTeardown(
     if (config.heartbeatSchedulerEnabled) await heartbeat.registerStoppedInstructionCollectionWork(deliveryWork,
       () => !isIdleTaskDrainActive() && !heartbeatSchedulerStopped && !isWarmStandby()).ready;
 
-    // Startup housekeeping: provider and connection sweeps that every timer tick
-    // repeats and that neither serving requests nor run recovery depends on.
-    // Readiness does not wait for it. It is tracked as scheduler work, so idle
-    // sleep and shutdown wait for it. Each step logs its own failure and the
-    // next step still runs. The scheduler interval starts after it, so the login
-    // reapers and the lease cleanup still finish before the first timer tick.
     const runStartupHousekeeping = async () => {
       const step = (name: string, work: () => Promise<unknown>) =>
         work().catch((err: unknown) => {
diff --git a/server/src/services/decision-target-work.ts b/server/src/services/decision-target-work.ts
index 0a285fa86ec..b26e658a3b3 100644
--- a/server/src/services/decision-target-work.ts
+++ b/server/src/services/decision-target-work.ts
@@ -7,12 +7,13 @@ export function registerDecisionTargetWork(
   service: Pick<ReturnType<typeof decisionService>, "sweepInvalidTargets" | "decisionTargetsChanged" | "hasDecisionTargetWork">,
   canRun: () => boolean,
 ) {
+  const retryMs = 30_000;
   return coordinator.register(DELIVERY_QUEUES.decisionTargets, {
-    retryMs: 30_000,
+    retryMs,
     pausePassiveMaintenance: true,
     onSettled: service.decisionTargetsChanged,
     run: signal => canRun() ? service.sweepInvalidTargets(new Date(), signal) : Promise.resolve(),
     hasPending: async () => canRun() && service.hasDecisionTargetWork(),
-    nextRunAt: () => service.hasDecisionTargetWork() ? Date.now() + 30_000 : null,
+    nextRunAt: () => service.hasDecisionTargetWork() ? Date.now() + retryMs : null,
   });
 }