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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE14AE24E00001M?

$48K paid to 13 different vendors (the largest, Tpusa Inc.,, received $34.3K) across 16 payments from October 20, 2023 to June 21, 2024, charged to City Clerk / Elections.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

13 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $48K 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

Tpusa Inc.,$34K · 2 payments
Constant Contact, Inc$2K · 1 payment
Pooja Chakravarti$2K · 2 payments
L a New Publishing Corp$1K · 1 payment
Liudmila Raskin$585 · 1 payment
World Journal LA LLC$550 · 1 payment
Javanan Inc$490 · 1 payment
Associated Students UCLA$225 · 2 payments
Siam Media Inc$130 · 1 payment
Armenian Media Network$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
1October 20, 2023May 4, 2023169dPAYMENT FOR NC POLLING PLACE RENTAL$150
2October 20, 2023May 4, 2023169dPAYMENT FOR NC POLLING PLACE PARKING FEE$75
3February 16, 2024January 30, 202417dVIP BOOKLET ENVELOPES FOR INVOICE #63183, QTY 30,000, FLAP ON THE 9.5" SIDE, 6" X 9" 24# WW$3,013
4April 16, 2024March 18, 202429dHINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW OF VIPS FOR MARCH 2024 PRIMARY ELECTION$1,612
5April 16, 2024March 18, 202429dHINDI TRANSLATION REVIEW OF VOTER GUIDES AND MEDIA FILES FOR MARCH 2024 PRIMARY ELECTION$473
6April 23, 2024February 22, 202461dTELEPERFORMANCE INVOICE FOR 21 CANDIDATE STATEMENTS IN 12 LANGUAGES FOR MARCH 2024 PRIMARY$30,870
7April 23, 2024February 22, 202461dTELEPERFORMANCE INVOICE FOR ENGLISH CAPTIONING SERVICES PROVIDED TO 46 CANDIDATES$3,450
8May 8, 2024February 29, 202469dPAYMENT FOR 2024 PRIMARY ELECTION SPANISH AD$1,553
9May 8, 2024February 27, 202471d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION KOREAN AD$1,400
10May 8, 2024February 16, 202482d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION JAPANESE AD$1,000
11May 8, 2024February 29, 202469d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION CHINESE AD$550
12May 8, 2024February 8, 202490d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION THAI AD$130
13May 13, 2024February 16, 202487d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION ARMENIAN AD$100
14June 13, 2024February 15, 2024119d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION RUSSIAN AD$585
15June 13, 2024February 18, 2024116d2024 PRIMARY ELECTION FARSI AD$490
16June 21, 2024June 11, 202410dPREPAYMENT FOR 12 MONTH SUBSCRIPTION TO CONSTANT CONTACT$2,121

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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.