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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE12AE27001004M?

$3K paid to 4 different vendors (the largest, FTR LTD, received $1.8K) across 6 payments from August 24, 2026 to September 9, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

4 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $3K 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 TRANSCRIPTIONS

Approval records

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

Order dated July 23, 2026.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

FTR LTD$2K · 3 payments
Deposition Solutions LLC$656 · 1 payment
Planet Depos, LLC$352 · 1 payment
Veritext LLC$95 · 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 24, 2026August 15, 20269d25CJCM03467-01/JULY 2026 SERVICES$1,319
2August 24, 2026August 15, 20269d25MTCM00496/JULY 2026 SERVICES$430
3August 24, 2026August 15, 20269d26VWCM02045/JULY 2026 SERVICES$75
4September 3, 2026August 13, 202621d25VECV05308/ALBERTO/070926/BONA$656
5September 3, 2026August 7, 202627d25STCV20906/MCGAUTHA/070726/BANH$352
6September 9, 2026August 20, 202620d24STCV19759/HOLMES/071626/QUINONES$95

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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.