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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE78AE27780004M?
$2K paid to 6 different vendors (the largest, Csulb Career Development Ctr, received $550.0) across 6 payments from September 2, 2026 to September 9, 2026, charged to Public Works - Engineering / Office and Administrative.
6 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $2K 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 2027
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated July 28, 2026.
Paid from
General Fund
discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.
Department: Public Works - Engineering
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 2, 2026 | July 16, 2026 | 48d | VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES | $550 |
| 2 | September 2, 2026 | July 22, 2026 | 42d | VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES | $550 |
| 3 | September 2, 2026 | July 9, 2026 | 55d | FALL 2026 CAREER & GRADUATE SCHOOL EXPO | $275 |
| 4 | September 8, 2026 | July 9, 2026 | 61d | VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES | $250 |
| 5 | September 8, 2026 | July 14, 2026 | 56d | VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES | $250 |
| 6 | September 9, 2026 | July 9, 2026 | 62d | VARIOUS BOE RECRUITMENT FEES | $500 |
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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.