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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL12TL261210002?

$17K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, US Bank, received $9.8K) across 34 payments from August 19, 2025 to September 3, 2026, charged to City Attorney / Travel.

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

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $17K 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

Travel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY

SACRAMENTO LOBBYING RELATED TRAVEL

Approval records

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

Order dated August 12, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: City Attorney

Paid to

US Bank$10K · 19 payments
Privacy-City Attorney$7K · 15 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
1August 19, 2025August 7, 202512dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$583
2August 19, 2025August 7, 202512dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$549
3August 19, 2025August 15, 20254dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$356
4August 19, 2025August 15, 20254dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$356
5August 19, 2025August 7, 202512dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$289
6August 19, 2025August 7, 202512dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$289
7August 20, 2025August 19, 20251dAIRFARE - KEVIN JAMES SACRAMENTO, CA 7/1/25-7/2/25$735
8August 20, 2025August 19, 20251dAIRFARE - KEVIN JAMES SACRAMENTO, CA 7/14/25-7/15/25$642
9January 20, 2026January 14, 20266dAIRFARE - TRAVEL SERVICE FEE (CANCELED FLIGHT)$5
10January 27, 2026January 27, 20260dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$738
11February 19, 2026February 19, 20260dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA$633
12May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA 4/13/26-4/14/26$615
13May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA 4/13/26-4/14/26$615
14May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA 4/6/26-4/7/26$615
15May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA 4/20/26-4/21/26$558
16May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA 4/20/26-4/21/26$558
17May 21, 2026May 19, 20262dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$518
18June 23, 2026May 19, 202635dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$449
19June 23, 2026May 19, 202635dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$417
20June 23, 2026May 29, 202625dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$407
21June 23, 2026May 19, 202635dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$338
22July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - L DRINO 6/22/26-6/23/26$718
23July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - K JAMES 6/15/26-6/16/26$718
24July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - K JAMES 6/22/26-6/23/26$718
25July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - R. KHALIL 6/15/26-6/18/26 COLORADO$615
26July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - DUID TRAFFIC SAFETY FORUM 6.9.26-6.11.26$558
27July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - K JAMES 6/29/26-6/30/26$435
28July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - A AURISCH 6/29/26-6/30/26$425
29July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO LOBBYING - L DRINO 6/29/26-6/30/26$425
30July 21, 2026July 20, 20261dAIRFARE - PROCESSING FEE$5
31August 3, 2026July 28, 20266dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$1,008
32August 21, 2026August 21, 20260dAIRFARE - SACRAMENTO, CA KEVIN JAMES 6/29/26-6/30/26$214
33September 3, 2026August 19, 202615dPRIVACY-CITY ATTORNEY$404
34September 3, 2026August 19, 202615dPRIVACY-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.