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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE14AE22E00001M?

$12K paid to 15 different vendors (the largest, Joong-Ang Daily News California Inc, received $2.4K) across 25 payments from May 2, 2022 to June 22, 2022, charged to City Clerk / Elections.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

15 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $12K 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

Elections

Budget line.

Approval records

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

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Clerk

Paid to

Balita Media Inc$2K · 1 payment
World Journal LA LLC$1K · 1 payment
Weekly Lalala LLC$1K · 1 payment
KMNB Inc$900 · 1 payment
Tran a Cam$735 · 1 payment
Kimlien Thi Nguyen$360 · 5 payments
Armenian Media Network$359 · 1 payment
Pooja Chakravarti$326 · 7 payments
Siam Media Inc$320 · 1 payment
Mary Elizabeth Leslie$100 · 1 payment
Jonathan Yang$100 · 1 payment
Xiomara C Pena$100 · 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
1May 2, 2022April 15, 202217dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$67
2May 2, 2022April 18, 202214dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$40
3May 2, 2022April 25, 20227dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$32
4May 2, 2022April 18, 202214dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$16
5May 2, 2022April 18, 202214dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$9
6May 17, 2022March 22, 202256dBALLOT SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR JONATHAN YANG$100
7May 17, 2022March 22, 202256dBALLOT SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR MARY ELIZABETH LESLIE$100
8June 9, 2022June 6, 20223dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$135
9June 9, 2022May 27, 202213dPAYMENT TO POOJA CHAKRAVARTI FOR HINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$27
10June 14, 2022May 26, 202219dPAYMENT TO KIMLIEN THI NGUYEN FOR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$108
11June 14, 2022May 26, 202219dPAYMENT TO KIMLIEN THI NGUYEN FOR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$90
12June 14, 2022May 26, 202219dPAYMENT TO KIMLIEN THI NGUYEN FOR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$72
13June 14, 2022May 26, 202219dPAYMENT TO KIMLIEN THI NGUYEN FOR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$72
14June 14, 2022May 26, 202219dPAYMENT TO KIMLIEN THI NGUYEN FOR VIETNAMESE TRANSLATION REVIEW FOR JUNE PRIMARY ELECTION ($18/HR)$18
15June 17, 2022April 29, 202249dKOREAN NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION INVOICE # 2170139-LAC-052022 PUBLISHED 5/17/22$2,372
16June 17, 2022May 2, 202246dTAGALOG NEWPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION INVOICE #103242, PUBLISHED 5/14/2022$2,059
17June 17, 2022May 3, 202245dRUSSIAN NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION INOVICE #1195/0522$900
18June 17, 2022April 29, 202249dINVOICE #4373 FARSI NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$400
19June 17, 2022April 29, 202249dARMENIAN NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$359
20June 17, 2022May 2, 202246dINV #050222-001, THAI NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$320
21June 22, 2022May 31, 202222d1/2 PAGE PRINT AD FULL COLOR IN MAIN NEWS, PUBLISHED MAY 16 FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$1,750
22June 22, 2022June 1, 202221dCHINESE LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$1,260
23June 22, 2022May 3, 202250dINVOICE #S630168 1/2 PAGE AD, FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION$1,250
24June 22, 2022May 11, 202242dVIETNAMESE NEWSPAPER AD FOR JUNE 7 ELECTION, 1/2 PAGE INVOICE # 177034 PUBLISHED 5/13/22$735
25June 22, 2022March 22, 202292dBALLOT SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR XIOMARA PENA$100

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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.