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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL39TL253900005?

$4K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Office of Finance, received $3.7K) across 4 payments from December 18, 2024 to December 23, 2024, charged to Office of Finance / Travel.

Checkbook LA · Updated Sep 22, 2026
A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $4K 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-OFFICE OF FINANCE

YUNTAO ZHOU - TL25X05 AWS EXPO LAS VEGAS, NV 12/1-6/2024

Approval records

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

Order dated October 29, 2024.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: Office of Finance

Paid to

Privacy-Office of Finance$4K · 2 payments
US Bank$296 · 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
1December 18, 2024November 25, 202423dAIRFARE- YUNTAO ZHOU; TL253900005, TKT 5267140982531$291
2December 18, 2024November 25, 202423dAIRFARE AGEN SERVICE FEE- YUNTAO ZHOU; TL253900005$5
3December 23, 2024December 18, 20245dPRIVACY-OFFICE OF FINANCE$1,930
4December 23, 2024December 18, 20245dPRIVACY-OFFICE OF FINANCE$1,799

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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.