SpendingContractsPurchase order
What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL38TL273800005?
$5K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Fire, received $3.4K) across 5 payments from August 20, 2026 to September 4, 2026, charged to Fire / State Educational Account.
2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $5K 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
K. MADRID; J. SNYDER, FIRE PSYCHOLOGISTS
Approval records
No council file, contract number or payment authority appears in this order's checkbook records.
Order dated July 29, 2026.
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 | August 20, 2026 | August 7, 2026 | 13d | 08/05-08/09/26; WASHINGTON DC; 2026 APA CONF | $1,293 |
| 2 | September 4, 2026 | August 24, 2026 | 11d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $1,343 |
| 3 | September 4, 2026 | August 24, 2026 | 11d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $799 |
| 4 | September 4, 2026 | August 24, 2026 | 11d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $650 |
| 5 | September 4, 2026 | August 24, 2026 | 11d | PRIVACY-FIRE | $650 |
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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.