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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE44AE26440015P?
$4K paid to 11 different vendors (the largest, Raffi Joe Wartanian, received $500.0) across 11 payments from October 27, 2025 to February 26, 2026, charged to Library / Contractual Services.
11 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $4K 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:
AE26440015P OPENORDER FOR 10/19/25
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated October 16, 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 | October 27, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 4d | 2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $500 |
| 2 | October 27, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 4d | 2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $400 |
| 3 | October 27, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 4d | 2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $300 |
| 4 | October 30, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 7d | PERF FEE FOR SHAHE ARMENIAN POETRY DAY | $400 |
| 5 | November 4, 2025 | October 31, 2025 | 4d | PERF FEE FOR MERI2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $400 |
| 6 | November 6, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 14d | NATALIE 2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $300 |
| 7 | November 13, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 21d | PERFORMANCE FOR VANESSA ANSOORIAN 10/19/25 | $500 |
| 8 | November 17, 2025 | October 23, 2025 | 25d | VATCHE PERFORMANCE AT ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25 | $400 |
| 9 | December 31, 2025 | December 23, 2025 | 8d | 2ND ANNUAL ARMENIAN POETRY DAY & FESTIVAL 10/19/25; TO PAY INVOICE# 002 | $400 |
| 10 | January 29, 2026 | January 21, 2026 | 8d | TO PAY INVOICE # 1-SHANT DANIELIAN | $400 |
| 11 | February 26, 2026 | February 25, 2026 | 1d | TO PAY INVOICE# 002; GHS CREATIVE WRITING CLUB | $400 |
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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.