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What has the City paid on purchase order GAENV56CF24CF971776M?

$1.45M paid to 281 different vendors (the largest, 2nd Call, received $100.0K) across 346 payments from August 11, 2023 to April 30, 2026, charged to Non-Departmental / Community Services District 14.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

281 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $1.5M 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

Community Services District 14

Budget line carrying the most money, of 16 this order is charged to.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-NON-DEPARTMENTAL - GENERAL CITY PURPOSES

FMS OPEN ENCUMBRANCES

Approval records

Order dated August 8, 2023.

Paid from

General Fund

discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.

Department: Non-Departmental

Paid to

Showing the 25 largest of 281 vendors on this order.

2nd Call$100K · 1 payment
Friends of the Coliseum Foundation$50K · 2 payments
Barrio Action Youth and Family Center$50K · 2 payments
Center for the Pacific Asian Family Inc$50K · 1 payment
Plaza De LA Raza Inc$25K · 1 payment
24th Street Theatre Company$25K · 1 payment
Woodland Hills - Tarzana Chamber of Commerce$25K · 1 payment
Downtown Center Business Improvement District Management Cor$25K · 1 payment
Peace Over Violence$22K · 7 payments
Harbor Area Gang Alternatives Program /C$20K · 1 payment
Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade - Black United Fund, Inc$20K · 2 payments
Hollenbeck Police Activities League$20K · 1 payment
South Bay Center for Counseling$17K · 3 payments
Friends of Westwood Recreation Complex$15K · 2 payments
Pacific Traffic Control Inc$11K · 3 payments
Privacy-Non-Departmental - General City Purposes$10K · 1 payment
Highland Park Heritage Trust$10K · 1 payment
Union Binacional De Organizaciones Exbraceros 1942-1967$10K · 2 payments
Antioch Mentor Program$10K · 1 payment
United Firefighters of Los Angeles City Fire Foundation$10K · 1 payment
Eagle Rock Cultural Association$10K · 2 payments
Olvera Street Merchants Association Foundation$10K · 2 payments
Skid Row Brigade, Inc.$10K · 1 payment
Black Lives Matter Grassroots$10K · 1 payment
Bob Baker Marionette Theater$10K · 1 payment

Payment volume

This order carries 346 payments totalling $1.5M, an average of $4,192. At that volume it is a standing arrangement drawn down continuously rather than a sequence of milestones, so individual payments are not listed.

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.