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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE78AE25780004M?

$15K paid to 12 different vendors (the largest, Society of Women Engineers, received $7.5K) across 16 payments from August 26, 2024 to November 26, 2024, charged to Public Works - Engineering / Office and Administrative.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

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

Office and Administrative

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025

Approval records

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

Order dated July 9, 2024.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: Public Works - Engineering

Paid to

Society of Women Engineers$8K · 1 payment
Uc Regents$3K · 5 payments
National Society of Black Engineers$1K · 1 payment
Csuf Auxiliary Services Corp$550 · 1 payment
Harvey Mudd College$500 · 1 payment
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc$450 · 1 payment
California State University Northridge$450 · 1 payment
Csulb Career Development Ctr$450 · 1 payment
Regents of the University of California /C$350 · 1 payment
University of Illinois$250 · 1 payment
Loyola Marymount University$250 · 1 payment
USC Viterbi School of Engineering$200 · 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
1August 26, 2024February 19, 2024189dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$7,500
2August 26, 2024July 22, 202435dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$1,500
3August 26, 2024June 24, 202463dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$550
4August 26, 2024July 1, 202456dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$500
5August 26, 2024June 24, 202463dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$450
6August 26, 2024July 16, 202441dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$450
7August 26, 2024July 17, 202440dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$400
8August 26, 2024July 17, 202440dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$250
9August 26, 2024July 17, 202440dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$250
10August 29, 2024June 26, 202464dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$950
11August 29, 2024June 25, 202465dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$450
12August 29, 2024July 11, 202449dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$350
13August 29, 2024June 6, 202484dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$250
14August 29, 2024June 6, 202484dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$200
15October 21, 2024October 10, 202411dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$50
16November 26, 2024November 14, 202412dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES- FY 2025$1,150

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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.