That is, after all, one reason that custodians exist.
The audits show that custodians are given repeated chances to come up with documentation to support expenses they claimed.
This week, a lawsuit was filed against two custodians of self-directed I.R.A.'s, the Equity Trust Company and the Entrust Group, accusing them of failing to do due diligence on investments, even though that is something that custodians do not do.
At a City Council hearing last week, Education Department officials complained that custodians performed only minor repairs while passing off work to plumbers, carpenters and other trade workers in the Division of School Facilities.
"Much of what we heard last week is a total distortion of our contract," he said, adding that custodians were responsible for keeping schools clean and orderly for children but that they were not supposed to do major repair work.
Mr. Troeller said the union was not wedded to the current payment system, and had in the past proposed doing away with it so that custodians would be treated more like other municipal employees.
A challenge of such a system would be ensuring that custodians of datasets were consulted about potential uses of the data.
This Model does not involve a central data repository which means that custodians only release data on a project by project basis.
(When I visited the old Kataragama temple, in the country's south, the head priest complained that the custodian was transforming its character from Hindu to Buddhist. The custodian, no surprise, was a Rajapaksa).
