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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE78AE26780004M?

$17K paid to 8 different vendors (the largest, Society of Women Engineers, received $7.7K) across 17 payments from August 20, 2025 to November 5, 2025, charged to Public Works - Engineering / Office and Administrative.

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

8 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $17K 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 2026

Approval records

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

Order dated July 14, 2025.

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$4K · 5 payments
Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc$3K · 4 payments
California State University Northridge$875 · 2 payments
Csuf Auxiliary Services Corp$550 · 1 payment
Harvey Mudd College$500 · 1 payment
USC Viterbi School of Engineering$500 · 2 payments
Loyola Marymount University$275 · 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 20, 2025July 3, 202548dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$400
2August 25, 2025July 3, 202553dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$250
3August 29, 2025July 24, 202536dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$7,650
4August 29, 2025July 1, 202559dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES FY2026$575
5August 29, 2025July 2, 202558dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$525
6August 29, 2025July 24, 202536dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$500
7August 29, 2025July 18, 202542dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES FY 2026$275
8September 2, 2025July 28, 202536dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$450
9September 2, 2025July 2, 202562dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$250
10September 3, 2025July 29, 202536dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$1,600
11September 3, 2025July 24, 202541dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$1,000
12September 3, 2025August 7, 202527dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$950
13September 3, 2025July 30, 202535dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$550
14September 24, 2025September 10, 202514dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$400
15September 30, 2025September 17, 202513dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$1,000
16October 27, 2025October 10, 202517dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$300
17November 5, 2025July 2, 2025126dVARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES$250

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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.