SpendingContractsPurchase order

What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL38TL263800011?

$9K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Fire, received $3.9K) across 7 payments from August 14, 2025 to December 17, 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 $9K 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

D. STEINBERG, RISK MNGR; D. O'CONNOR, CII; J. SAMBAR, CII

Approval records

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

Order dated July 29, 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

Privacy-Fire$4K · 3 payments
Calpelra$4K · 3 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 14, 2025August 13, 20251d11/18-21/25; MONTEREY, CA; 2025 CALPERA ANNUAL CONF.; DREW STEINBERG ACCT #32187$1,225
2August 14, 2025August 13, 20251d11/18-21/25; MONTEREY, CA; 2025 CALPERA ANNUAL CONF.; DANIEL O'CONNOR ACCT #43196$1,225
3August 14, 2025August 13, 20251d11/18-21/25; MONTEREY, CA; 2025 CALPERA ANNUAL CONF.; JEFFREY SAMBAR ACCT #42700$1,225
4October 21, 2025October 8, 202513d11/18-21/25; MONTEREY, CA; 2025 CALPERA ANNUAL CONF.$1,908
5December 17, 2025December 10, 20257dPRIVACY-FIRE$1,338
6December 17, 2025December 10, 20257dPRIVACY-FIRE$1,277
7December 17, 2025December 10, 20257dPRIVACY-FIRE$1,263

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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.