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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE21001012M?

$5K paid to 7 different vendors (the largest, Craig S Sommerstein, received $3.1K) across 19 payments from September 23, 2020 to September 15, 2021, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

7 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 PHOTOCOPY

Approval records

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

Order dated August 25, 2020.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Craig S Sommerstein$3K · 1 payment
Registrar Recorder$760 · 8 payments
Liticourt Corporation$270 · 1 payment
Registrar-Recorder/County$165 · 2 payments
Titan Legal Services Inc$59 · 1 payment
Secretary of State$49 · 3 payments

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
1September 23, 2020September 10, 202013d19STCV41049/CHERVETS/072320/SCHMIDT$59
2September 25, 2020September 16, 20209dAR200016/073120/FORD$19
3September 28, 2020September 28, 20200dVARIOUS/083120/FORD$45
4October 9, 2020September 16, 202023dVARIOUS/073120/FORMAN$69
5October 9, 2020September 16, 202023dVARIOUS/073120/FORD$39
6November 13, 2020November 6, 20207dAR-10519/093020/MCKITTRICK$15
7November 16, 2020November 6, 202010dVARIOUS/093020/FORD$42
8November 30, 2020November 30, 20200dVARIOUS/103120/MCKITTRICK$471
9November 30, 2020November 30, 20200dVARIOUS/103120/MCKITTRICK$14
10December 4, 2020November 30, 20204dAR-10519/103120/MCKITTRICK$15
11January 4, 2021January 4, 20210dVARIOUS/113020/FORD$156
12February 26, 2021February 25, 20211dVARIOUS/123120/MCKITTRICK$18
13March 15, 2021March 8, 20217dVARIOUS/013121/FORMAN$62
14April 28, 2021March 31, 202128dDOC # 20060471522 CUST CODE 4001D$9
15September 8, 2021September 8, 20210dATWATER BC696028 MARTINEZ$3,066
16September 13, 2021August 23, 202121dCV1806577/RODRIGUEZ/042021/SMITH$270
17September 15, 2021September 14, 20211dEMILY JAMES 5/27/21$201
18September 15, 2021September 14, 20211dEMILY JAMES 5/27/21$95
19September 15, 2021September 14, 20211dEMILY JAMES 7/9/21$21

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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.