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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL38TL263800002?

$42K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Bell Textron Inc, received $39.9K) across 6 payments from August 12, 2025 to September 23, 2025, charged to Fire / State Educational Account.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

3 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $42K 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 Account

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

PRIVACY-FIRE

Approval records

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

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

Bell Textron Inc$40K · 2 payments
US Bank$1K · 2 payments
Privacy-Fire$967 · 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
1August 12, 2025August 11, 20251d07/14-18/25 / FORT WORTH, TX / BELL 505 INITIAL TRNG, BELL HELI.$22,400
2August 12, 2025August 11, 20251d07/07-11/25 / FORT WORTH, TX / BELL 505 INITIAL TRNG, BELL HELI.$17,500
3August 20, 2025August 6, 202514d07/06-19/25 / FORT WORTH, TX / BELL 505 INITIAL TRNG, BELL HELI.$772
4August 20, 2025August 6, 202514d07/06-19/25 / FORT WORTH, TX / BELL 505 INITIAL TRNG, BELL HELI.$705
5August 28, 2025July 31, 202528dPRIVACY-FIRE$955
6September 23, 2025September 17, 20256dPRIVACY-FIRE$12

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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.