SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE19001008M?

$30K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Independent Taxi Owners Assoc /C, received $23.7K) across 152 payments from October 22, 2018 to August 12, 2019, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

3 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $30K 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

Litigation

Budget line.

Approval records

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

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Richard T Copeland$900 · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 152 payments totalling $30K, an average of $197. 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.