SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV43CF25201282Y?
$308K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Relman Colfax PLLC, received $262.5K) across 6 payments from December 30, 2024 to December 16, 2025, charged to Los Angeles Housing / Plaintiff Counsel.
3 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $308K 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
Plaintiff CounselBudget line.
Order description, as published:
ENC FY 25 - PLAINTIFF COUNSEL
Approval records
- Council file 20-1282Vote 14–0, 1 absent, on Dec 3, 2025 (latest of 2 votes)Cited by the checkbook as the authority for these payments. Votes from the City Clerk's unofficial vote records; the official file.
Order dated August 15, 2024.
Paid from
Accessible Housing Fund
discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.
Department: Los Angeles Housing
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 | December 30, 2024 | December 18, 2024 | 12d | KC: ILC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) JUL-SEP 24, INV #00601-00005-0027 | $75,000 |
| 2 | February 10, 2025 | February 5, 2025 | 5d | KC: ILCC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) 10/01/24-01/16/25 | $43,550 |
| 3 | April 2, 2025 | April 2, 2025 | 0d | KC: ILC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) OCT-DEC 24, INV #00601-00005-0028 | $62,500 |
| 4 | April 30, 2025 | April 17, 2025 | 13d | KC: ILC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) JAN-MAR 25, INV #00601-00005-0029 | $62,500 |
| 5 | October 23, 2025 | October 15, 2025 | 8d | KC: ILC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) APR-JUN 25, INV #00601-00005-0030 | $62,500 |
| 6 | December 16, 2025 | December 2, 2025 | 14d | KC: ILCC V CITY OF LA , CASE NO.12 CV-551 FMO (PJWX) 01/17/25-01/31/25 | $1,450 |
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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.