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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE26001025M?
$60K paid to 6 different vendors (the largest, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore, received $31.7K) across 10 payments from September 15, 2025 to August 13, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Office and Administrative.
6 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $60K 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
Office and Administrative
Budget line.
Order description, as published:
GAEAE - VARIOUS ADMIN - HR RECRUITMENT & TRAINING SERVICES
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated September 12, 2025.
Paid from
General Fund
discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.
Department: City Attorney
Paid to
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.
| # | Paid | Invoiced | Lag | Reference | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2025 | September 10, 2025 | 5d | LO160-10000 GATEWAY PUBLIC EMPL RELATIONS CONSORTIUM FY26 MEMBERSHIP / HR-DAVID VILLEGAS | $4,095 |
| 2 | November 18, 2025 | November 18, 2025 | 0d | GOVERNMENTJOBS.COM SUB 11/18/25 - 11/17/26 = HR DEPT | $3,278 |
| 3 | March 4, 2026 | February 25, 2026 | 7d | CAL LAWYERS ASSOC. - DCA REAL PROPERTY - JOB ID 82664917 | $649 |
| 4 | March 4, 2026 | February 25, 2026 | 7d | CAL LAWYERS ASSOC. - DCA PUB FINANCE - JOB ID 82664261 | $649 |
| 5 | April 24, 2026 | April 8, 2026 | 16d | LO160-00900 11/13/25 LEADING IN A UNION ENVIRONMENT HR TRAINING / EDNA VALLECILLO GARCIA | $27,591 |
| 6 | June 1, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | 5d | CAL LAWYERS ASSOC. - DCA PLU - JOB ID 84038909 | $849 |
| 7 | June 1, 2026 | May 28, 2026 | 4d | WESTERN CITY MAGAZINE - DCA -PUBLIC BOND COUNSEL | $300 |
| 8 | June 11, 2026 | June 4, 2026 | 7d | ORDER NUMBER FLD16845694677/JOB POSTING 5/17/26-5/16/27 | $6,525 |
| 9 | June 12, 2026 | May 27, 2026 | 16d | WS-20269080- CUSTOM 12-MONTH EMP. ADVERTISING -LACBA-LAWJOBS-3 ANNUAL SLOTS | $15,456 |
| 10 | August 13, 2026 | August 10, 2026 | 3d | ORDER NUMBER FLD16883642666/JOB POSTING 06/29/26-12/28/26 | $333 |
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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.