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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL12TL261210001?
$8K paid to 4 different vendors (the largest, US Bank, received $5.3K) across 18 payments from January 12, 2026 to September 3, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Litigation.
4 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $8K 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
Litigation
Budget line.
Order description, as published:
VARIOUS LITIGATION RELATED TRAVEL
PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated July 16, 2025.
Paid from
General Fund
discretionary tax dollars — this competes with police, fire, parks and everything else.
Department: City Attorney
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 | January 12, 2026 | December 26, 2025 | 17d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $433 |
| 2 | January 15, 2026 | January 12, 2026 | 3d | LODGING - P V. MENDEZ 24CJCM1839 | $214 |
| 3 | January 16, 2026 | January 14, 2026 | 2d | AIRFARE -WITNESS CITY V. DOUGLAS | $739 |
| 4 | January 29, 2026 | January 26, 2026 | 3d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $170 |
| 5 | January 29, 2026 | January 29, 2026 | 0d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $162 |
| 6 | March 26, 2026 | March 25, 2026 | 1d | LODGING - P V. MEHRINGER 19STCV05254 - M MOORE | $301 |
| 7 | April 15, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 0d | DOUGLAS V CITY 2:20-CV-07439-MEMF WITNESS | $969 |
| 8 | April 15, 2026 | April 15, 2026 | 0d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $179 |
| 9 | April 22, 2026 | April 22, 2026 | 0d | MICHEL MOORE (WITNESS) 3/17/26-3/18/26 | $1,077 |
| 10 | April 22, 2026 | April 22, 2026 | 0d | ZAHRA BALDWIN (WITNESS) 3/23/26-3/24/26 | $630 |
| 11 | April 22, 2026 | April 22, 2026 | 0d | JANALLE CENTENO (WITNESS) 3/20/2026 | $291 |
| 12 | May 21, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | 0d | AIRFARE - DUID - CAL. IMPAIRED DRIVING TASKFORCE 4/14/26 | $671 |
| 13 | May 21, 2026 | May 21, 2026 | 0d | AIRFARE - WITNESS ZAHRA BALDWIN (FLIGHT CHANGE) | $148 |
| 14 | June 17, 2026 | June 22, 2026 | — | AIRFARE - T GALLON (WITNESS) 5/1/2026 | $616 |
| 15 | June 17, 2026 | June 22, 2026 | — | AIRFARE - T GALLON (WITNESS) 5/6/2026 | $616 |
| 16 | June 17, 2026 | June 22, 2026 | — | AIRFARE - S TRANG (PEOPLE V BOWEN) 5/12/2026-5/13/2026 | $536 |
| 17 | August 6, 2026 | August 4, 2026 | 2d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $101 |
| 18 | September 3, 2026 | August 19, 2026 | 15d | PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY | $361 |
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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.