How will new information be monitored? (New expense items)

[Jennifer Bell]

How could advocacy groups use the system to monitor new information as
it comes in?

Some ideas:

When a new item comes in, a ‘triage’ person or group of people could
tag it as being in a particular category: meals, flights, etc.

People could volunteer to be expense ‘trackers’. Volunteers could see
a list of available departments / tracking categories, and sign up for
one or more.

When a tracker logs in, they can be shown new expense items one by
one, and they can give them a 1-10 rating for appropriateness. The
overall rating should be the average rating, of a group of say 5 to 6
people.

It would be good if, while the person is looking at the expense item
to decide the rating, the system could pull up similar items from the
database and show them for comparison. Potentially, the system can
also show some guidelines for that type of expense. The comparisons
could show similar expenses from the same department as well as from
other departments.

Items with the most extreme ratings scores can be forwarded to the
group administrator. If necessary, the administrator could submit an
access to information request to get more information on the expense.