`controller-utils`: Replace use of `any` with proper types (non-test files only)

[mcmire]

Look for the following string in non-test files to find these: // TODO: Replace `any` with type

At time of writing, there were 6 instances.

[desi]

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[mcmire]

Investigate whether args on query can be changed along with the return type.

[desi]

For this ticket we will not handle the query function. There will be a separate ticket for that. This one will handle the 5 straight forward fixes.