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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE06AE26000001M?

$2.45M paid to 41 different vendors (the largest, Western Practice Veterinary Corp, received $672.9K) across 283 payments from October 27, 2025 to August 25, 2026, charged to Animal Services / Spay & Neuter Program.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

41 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $2.4M above is the whole order, not the spend of whichever vendor you arrived from. The City uses these for standing arrangements like outside counsel, library materials and expert witnesses. Per-vendor amounts are below.

What it was for

Spay & Neuter Program

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

S/N VOUCHER ENCUMBRANCE SEPT FY26

Approval records

No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.

Order dated October 20, 2025.

Paid from

Animal Sterilization

restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.

Department: Animal Services

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 41 vendors on this order.

SPAY4LA$199K · 11 payments
CH Veterinary, Inc$129K · 12 payments
Latino Alliance for$109K · 9 payments
The Pet Orphans Fund /C$104K · 11 payments
Stray Paws Animal Haven$90K · 11 payments
Family Veterinary, Inc$78K · 11 payments
The Rescue Train$60K · 11 payments
KINDER4RESCUE$34K · 8 payments
Downtown Dog Rescue$20K · 12 payments
Griffith Pet Hospital$11K · 8 payments
Teresa M Long$6K · 2 payments
Stray Cat Alliance$5K · 6 payments
Daniela Castillo$3K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 283 payments totalling $2.4M, an average of $8,657. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), read live and grouped by po_num, which is populated on about 90% of payments. Council files link to the City Clerk's Council File Management System. The City's biggest contracts · The checkbook.