Why published sweeping hours rarely match the foreman’s sheet
A roster says eight sweepers were assigned to District 3 on Tuesday. The foreman’s sheet, signed at 06:40, shows six names and a borrowed truck from District 1. The published dashboard that reads the roster will show a full shift. The street will not.
We treat the signed sheet as the source and the roster as a plan. The difference is not a scandal by itself; rain, a broken hopper, and a funeral in the crew all appear on the same page in a good depot. The problem starts when the public notice reprints the plan as if it were the day.
Reconciliation is dull work: line by line, name by name, then a mark for every hour that cannot be tied to a signed line. We do not fill gaps with “typical” hours. Untraced hours stay untraced on the chart.
Departments that keep both documents in the same folder, with the sheet on top, spend less time arguing at hearings. The chart then has a caption a resident can test: “Hours from signed depot sheets, 1–28 February.”