SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL38TL253800056?
$45K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Flight Safety International Inc, received $40.0K) across 8 payments from June 9, 2025 to August 26, 2025, charged to Fire / State Educational Account.
3 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $45K 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
State Educational AccountBudget line.
Order description, as published:
PRIVACY-FIRE
JOEL SMITH, PILOT; JONITH JOHNSON, PILOT
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated April 30, 2025.
Paid from
LAFD Special Training Fund
restricted revenue (grants, fees or a dedicated tax) that can only be spent on this purpose — not general-fund tax dollars.
Department: Fire
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 | June 9, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | 32d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $1,600 |
| 2 | June 9, 2025 | May 8, 2025 | 32d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $1,150 |
| 3 | June 18, 2025 | June 5, 2025 | 13d | 06/22-06/29/25; LAFAYETTE, LA; ANNUAL PILOT RECURRENT TRNG AW 139 | $399 |
| 4 | August 12, 2025 | August 11, 2025 | 1d | 06/23-06/28/25; LAFAYETTE, LA; ANNUAL PILOT RECURRENT TRNG AW 139 | $20,000 |
| 5 | August 12, 2025 | August 11, 2025 | 1d | 06/23-06/28/25; LAFAYETTE, LA; ANNUAL PILOT RECURRENT TRNG AW 139 | $20,000 |
| 6 | August 20, 2025 | August 6, 2025 | 14d | 06/22-06/29/25; LAFAYETTE, LA; ANNUAL PILOT RECURRENT TRNG AW 139 | $546 |
| 7 | August 26, 2025 | July 31, 2025 | 26d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $938 |
| 8 | August 26, 2025 | July 31, 2025 | 26d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $474 |
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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.