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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE25001003M?

$190K paid to 30 different vendors (the largest, Network Deposition Services Inc, received $35.1K) across 237 payments from September 4, 2024 to December 9, 2025, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

30 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $190K 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 COURT REPORTERS

Approval records

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

Order dated August 28, 2024.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 30 vendors on this order.

Steno Agency Inc$28K · 42 payments
Veritext LLC$17K · 14 payments
Jonnell Agnew$16K · 22 payments
Express Deposition Services$10K · 8 payments
First Legal Buyer Inc$6K · 5 payments
Watson CSR Inc$3K · 3 payments
Hines Reporters.com Inc$3K · 8 payments
Claudia Amezcua Hagopian$2K · 1 payment
M & C Corp$2K · 5 payments
Counsel Press Inc$2K · 1 payment
Janet a Hirsch$2K · 3 payments
Lynden J & Associates Inc$1K · 3 payments
Nationwide Legal LLC$884 · 2 payments
Sommerhauser RPTG SVCS, Inc$810 · 2 payments

Payment volume

This order carries 237 payments totalling $190K, an average of $801. 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.