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What has the City paid on purchase order GAEAE88AE26205G23M?
$2K paid to 9 different vendors (the largest, Vismaya Vishwas, received $1.0K) across 9 payments from April 17, 2026 to May 5, 2026, charged to Recreation and Parks / Grants for Astronomic Essay Co.
9 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.
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
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 | April 17, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | 3d | 2026 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST 3RD PRIZE AWARD $200 LESS 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING=$140 | $200 |
| 2 | April 17, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 2d | 2026 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50 | $50 |
| 3 | April 17, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | 3d | 2026 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50 LESS 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING=$35 | $50 |
| 4 | April 17, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 2d | 2026 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50 | $50 |
| 5 | April 17, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | 3d | 2026 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50 | $50 |
| 6 | April 17, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | 3d | 2026 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST HONORABLE MENTION $50 | $50 |
| 7 | April 20, 2026 | April 14, 2026 | 6d | 2026 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST 1ST PRIZE AWARD $1000 LESS 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING=$700 | $1,000 |
| 8 | April 20, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 5d | 2026 JOAN & ARNOLD SEIDEL GRIFFITH OBSERVER SCIENCE WRITING CONTEST 2ND PRIZE $350 | $350 |
| 9 | May 5, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 20d | 2026 J&A SEIDEL GRIFFITH WRITING CONTEST 4TH PRIZE AWARD $150 LESS 30% FED TAX WITHHOLDING=$105 | $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.