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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE88AE25205G09M?

$2K paid to 10 different vendors (the largest, Annie Prud'homme-Genereux, received $1.0K) across 10 payments from April 25, 2025 to May 21, 2025, charged to Recreation and Parks / Grants for Astronomic Essay Co.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

10 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

Stephen S Fentress$350 · 1 payment
Anna Yen Qin Ho$200 · 1 payment
Arian Moghni$150 · 1 payment
Duncan a Lunan$50 · 1 payment
Donald W Goldsmith$50 · 1 payment
Francine Jackson$50 · 1 payment
Jaxton Maez$50 · 1 payment
Peter Jedicke$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
1April 25, 2025April 24, 20251d2025 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST 1ST PRIZE AWARD $1000, NET OF 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING $700$1,000
2April 28, 2025April 24, 20254d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST 3RD PRIZE AWARD $200$200
3April 28, 2025April 24, 20254d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50$50
4April 28, 2025April 24, 20254d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50$50
5May 6, 2025May 2, 20254d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST 2ND PRIZE AWARD $350$350
6May 6, 2025May 2, 20254d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST 4TH PRIZE AWARD $150$150
7May 6, 2025April 24, 202512d2025 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50, NET OF 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING $35$50
8May 7, 2025May 2, 20255d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50$50
9May 7, 2025May 2, 20255d2025 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50, NET OF 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING $35$50
10May 21, 2025May 20, 20251d2025 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $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.