SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001003M?
$500K paid to 32 different vendors (the largest, Steno Agency Inc, received $170.8K) across 616 payments from July 17, 2025 to July 27, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.
32 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $500K 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 July 10, 2025.
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 32 vendors on this order.
Payment volume
This order carries 616 payments totalling $500K, an average of $812. 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.