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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL28TL272800702?

$3K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Council, received $1.8K) across 3 payments from August 21, 2026 to September 4, 2026, charged to Council / Travel.

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

Travel

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-COUNCIL

Approval records

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

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: Council

Paid to

Privacy-Council$2K · 2 payments
US Bank$2K · 1 payment

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 21, 2026August 21, 20260dAIRFARE + SVC FEES (MAPA 2026 MEXICO CITY, MX)$1,504
2September 4, 2026August 31, 20264dPRIVACY-COUNCIL$1,336
3September 4, 2026August 31, 20264dPRIVACY-COUNCIL$439

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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.