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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE14AE25E00001M?

$36K paid to 14 different vendors (the largest, Tpusa Inc.,, received $17.0K) across 16 payments from October 1, 2024 to February 4, 2025, charged to City Clerk / Elections.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

14 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $36K 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.,$17K · 1 payment
Hee J. Oh$3K · 2 payments
Pooja Chakravarti$2K · 1 payment
World Journal LA LLC$1K · 1 payment
L a New Publishing Corp$1K · 1 payment
Liudmila Raskin$585 · 1 payment
Armenian Media Network$459 · 1 payment
Lifetime Education$390 · 1 payment
Anthony Jerone Braswell$200 · 2 payments
Siam Media Inc$130 · 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 1, 2024August 22, 202440dBALLOT SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR ANTHONY BRASWELL$100
2October 1, 2024August 15, 202447dBALLOT SIMPLIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR ANTHONY BRASWELL$100
3October 4, 2024September 30, 20244dKOREAN TRANSLATION REVIEW OF VIP FOR NOVEMBER 2024 GENERAL ELECTION$2,405
4October 4, 2024August 23, 202442dOVERTON SAFETY FORKLIFT TRAINING$1,995
5November 26, 2024September 28, 202459d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION TAGALOG AD$2,850
6November 26, 2024September 30, 202457d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION KOREAN AD$2,372
7November 26, 2024September 30, 202457dPAYMENT FOR 2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION SPANISH AD$2,243
8November 26, 2024October 2, 202455dJAPANESE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION NEWS AD$1,000
9November 26, 2024September 27, 202460d2024 GENERAL ELECTION NEWS AD$130
10December 9, 2024September 30, 202470d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION CHINESE AD$1,260
11December 9, 2024September 12, 202488d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION RUSSIAN AD$585
12December 9, 2024September 24, 202476d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION ARMINIAN AD$459
13December 13, 2024October 7, 202467dKOREAN TRANSLATION REVIEW OF VIP FOR NOVEMBER 2024 GENERAL ELECTION$420
14December 18, 2024October 22, 202457dTELEPERFORMANCE INVOICE FOR ENGLISH CAPTIONING SERVICE PROVIDED TO 11 CANDIDATES$16,995
15February 4, 2025January 30, 20255dHINDI TRANSLATION SERVICES FOR THE NOVEMBER 2024 GENERAL ELECTION.$2,202
16February 4, 2025September 26, 2024131d2024 NOV GENERAL ELECTION FARSI AD$390

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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.