Inspection backlog chart
A wall-sized chart of overdue food, building, and fire inspections, drawn from the inspector’s own stamp book rather than from a summary spreadsheet.
Tbilisi desks and county counters
Permit queues, overdue inspections, and crew hours, set beside the books they came from.
We sit with records officers, copy dates from stamp books, and leave a briefing pack a department can take into a public meeting without rounding the numbers.
The seated briefing
The flagship piece of work is a public operations briefing for one programme — building permits, food inspections, or street patching — covering a single reporting period. An analyst reads the source lists in the office, marks what cannot be traced, and delivers a two-hour sitting with a numbered pack.
Related work from the same desk
Each piece uses a different source object: a stamp book, a foreman’s sheet, an inspector’s list, or a hearing board. None of them is a renamed version of the other.
Permit queue notice
A public-facing notice that states how many building and occupancy applications sit in each stage, with dates taken from the counter ledger.
Street-crew hour reconciliation
Matching published patching and sweeping hours to the daily sheets signed by foremen, then marking gaps that cannot be explained.
Hearing exhibit pack
Boards and numbered tables prepared for a public hearing, so residents can see the same figures the department will read into the record.
A sample civic ledger
These lines are the kind of counts a briefing pack carries. They are illustrations of format, not live city figures.
- Building applications, stamp-dated, still open
- Counted from the counter book, not from a planner tray
- Food premises past legal interval
- Days taken from the inspector’s last stamp
- Patching hours, signed depot sheets
- Roster hours shown only as a plan, never as the day
- Untraced lines
- Left hatched on the chart; never filled with a typical value
What clerks actually said
They sat with the stamp book for a morning and refused to use our summary sheet until every number had a page. The queue notice we put in the lobby now matches the book, which is less flattering and easier to defend.
I wished they had warned the foremen that we would read Tuesday’s sheet line by line. Two names were missing and it slowed the briefing. After that, the published sweeping hours stopped following the roster.
Field notes
How a permit stamp book actually dates a queue
Counter clerks date an application when the fee is taken, not when the file reaches a planner. That single habit changes every published wait time.
Why published sweeping hours rarely match the foreman’s sheet
Crew hours on a civic notice often come from a roster. The sheet the foreman signs at the depot records who actually left the yard.
Overdue food inspections: the red mark that belongs on the wall
An overdue inspection is a date in a stamp book, not a risk score. Putting the date on a wall chart changes the conversation in the health office.
The local copy of the figures
A department that wants a workstation copy of the same charts can keep Releasepathcore as a local tracking utility. It stores records already taken from paper. It does not hold funds, open wallets, or execute transfers. If you need that copy, it is listed on Veve.