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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE88AE23205G19M?

$2K paid to 11 different vendors (the largest, Donald W Goldsmith, received $1.0K) across 11 payments from March 29, 2023 to May 23, 2023, charged to Recreation and Parks / Grants for Astronomic Essay Co.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

11 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

Grants for Astronomic Essay Co

Budget line.

Approval records

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

Paid from

Recreation & Parks Grant

a capital fund, typically bond or grant financed rather than annual tax revenue.

Department: Recreation and Parks

Paid to

Donald W Goldsmith$1K · 1 payment
Gillis Lowry$350 · 1 payment
Annie Prud'homme-Genereux$200 · 1 payment
Duncan a Lunan$150 · 1 payment
Noah Bray-Ali$50 · 1 payment
Steven Blodgett$50 · 1 payment
Andrew Xu$50 · 1 payment
Samantha Goldberg$50 · 1 payment
Francine Jackson$50 · 1 payment
Michael Edward Luna$50 · 1 payment
Max Fieg$50 · 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
1March 29, 2023March 22, 20237d205/88500F 2023 AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, 1ST PRIZE $1,000$1,000
2March 29, 2023March 22, 20237d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
3March 31, 2023March 22, 20239d205/88500F 2023 AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, 2ND PRIZE $350$350
4March 31, 2023March 22, 20239d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
5April 4, 2023March 22, 202313d205/88500F 2023 AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, 3RD PRIZE $200$200
6April 6, 2023March 22, 202315d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
7May 10, 2023April 25, 202315d205/88500F 2023 AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, 4TH PRIZE $150$150
8May 10, 2023May 3, 20237d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
9May 18, 2023May 15, 20233d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
10May 18, 2023May 15, 20233d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50
11May 23, 2023May 22, 20231d205/88500F 2023 HONORABLE MENTION AWARD JOAN&ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OB. SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST, $50$50

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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.