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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE44AE26440007P?
$10K paid to 12 different vendors (the largest, Mirelle Ortega Molina, received $1.9K) across 15 payments from September 26, 2025 to November 20, 2025, charged to Library / Contractual Services.
12 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $10K 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
Contractual Services
Budget line.
Order description, as published:
OPEN ORDER FOR INDIVIDUAL VENDORS 25304003
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated September 4, 2025.
Paid from
Library
restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.
Department: Library
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 26, 2025 | September 25, 2025 | 1d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $400 |
| 2 | September 26, 2025 | September 25, 2025 | 1d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $400 |
| 3 | September 26, 2025 | September 16, 2025 | 10d | SPEAKING FEE FOR ARTIST PRESENTATION | $400 |
| 4 | October 15, 2025 | October 1, 2025 | 14d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $591 |
| 5 | October 17, 2025 | October 14, 2025 | 3d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $1,200 |
| 6 | October 17, 2025 | October 14, 2025 | 3d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $1,022 |
| 7 | October 17, 2025 | October 8, 2025 | 9d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $600 |
| 8 | October 21, 2025 | September 25, 2025 | 26d | SPEAKER FEE FOR LA LIBROS FESTIVAL | $550 |
| 9 | October 23, 2025 | October 14, 2025 | 9d | SPEAKING FEE FOR LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $800 |
| 10 | November 4, 2025 | October 28, 2025 | 7d | BERNSTEIN HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTATION | $400 |
| 11 | November 13, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | 1d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL SCHOOL DAYS | $1,100 |
| 12 | November 13, 2025 | October 28, 2025 | 16d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 OLIVIA A | $914 |
| 13 | November 13, 2025 | November 12, 2025 | 1d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL SPEAKER FEE | $800 |
| 14 | November 19, 2025 | November 13, 2025 | 6d | LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $591 |
| 15 | November 20, 2025 | November 19, 2025 | 1d | BANDIDA COMIC SPEAKING FEE LA LIBROS FESTIVAL 9/13/25 | $591 |
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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.