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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE21001009M?

$5K paid to 6 different vendors (the largest, Ellis Investigations Law Corp, received $2.0K) across 14 payments from August 11, 2020 to November 19, 2021, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

6 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $5K 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.

Order description, as published:

VARIOUS INVESTIGATION

Approval records

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

Order dated July 13, 2020.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Atkinson-Baker Inc$1K · 3 payments
Craig S Sommerstein$1K · 1 payment
E-Legal Services, Inc.$665 · 7 payments
Barry D Pressman MD Inc$53 · 1 payment
Dma Claims Inc$46 · 1 payment

Every payment, in order

Payment requests are numbered sequentially by the City, so the order here is the order they were approved. Several requests clearing on one day usually means invoices were held and released together.

#PaidInvoicedLagReferenceAmount
1August 11, 2020August 5, 20206dBC695074/MALKOUN/071320/FRATIANNE$277
2September 4, 2020September 3, 20201d19STCV43132/BOVE/073020/WILLIS$513
3September 4, 2020September 3, 20201d19STCV42704/LAJUNE/071420/WILLIS$330
4May 20, 2021April 29, 202121dELENA/BC695970/VALADEZ$46
5August 5, 2021July 13, 202123d20STCV26305/GARZA/JUN2021/KENEALY/COLA-00002$2,001
6September 8, 2021September 8, 20210dKUEHN/SALCHOW BC709324 MINOR$1,114
7November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dFIRESTONE 19STCV38295$95
8November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dORTEGA 19STCV06530$95
9November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dCOLLINS 19STCV04173$95
10November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dHERNANDEZ 20STCV08783$95
11November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dHERNANDEZ 20STCV08783$95
12November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dFIRESTONE 19STCV38295$95
13November 4, 2021October 28, 20217dFIRESTONE 19STCV38295$95
14November 19, 2021November 12, 20217dBC718602/BARAJAS/062821/MCGUIRE$53

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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.