Victims want to know when they can expect money and taxpayers want to know where there money is going.  Both are sensible expectations, but not usually easy to answer post disaster.

Local officials in NY are working on legislation to make the expenditures of the billions of federal dollars allocated for H. Sandy reconstruction and recovery more transparent for those affected.  See this article from local paper.

Note that the federal government has a post-Sandy expenditure system in place. It is on the Dept. of HUD website page with the H. Sandy Rebuild Task Force Report. Direct URL is here, though I am not sure how current the data is.