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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL08TL230852703?

$3K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Building and Safety, received $2.6K) across 4 payments from April 10, 2023 to April 14, 2023, charged to Building and Safety / Enforcement Assistance Grants.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $3K 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

Enforcement Assistance Grants

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-BUILDING AND SAFETY

DAVID THOMPSON

Approval records

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

Order dated March 29, 2023.

Paid from

Local Enforce Agency Landfill

restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.

Department: Building and Safety

Paid to

Privacy-Building and Safety$3K · 2 payments
Citibank, N.A.$395 · 2 payments

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 10, 2023April 5, 20235dAIRFARE-DAVID THOMPSON, 04/02-06/23, MONTEREY, CA, SWANA SYMPOSIUM$383
2April 10, 2023April 5, 20235dAIRFARE-DAVID THOMPSON, 04/02-06/23, MONTEREY, CA, SWANA SYMPOSIUM$12
3April 14, 2023April 14, 20230dPRIVACY-BUILDING AND SAFETY$1,473
4April 14, 2023April 14, 20230dPRIVACY-BUILDING AND SAFETY$1,150

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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.