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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL39TL263900008?

$2K paid to 2 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-Office of Finance, received $1.9K) across 5 payments from April 22, 2026 to June 9, 2026, charged to Office of Finance / Travel.

A blanket order, not one firm's contract

2 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $2K 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 - GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT 2026 SUMMIT, 04/21-24/2026

Approval records

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

Order dated April 9, 2026.

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$2K · 2 payments
US Bank$283 · 3 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
1April 22, 2026March 25, 202628dINV# 3571027- TL263900008 YUNTAO ZHOU -DEP-39 SERVICE FEE$5
2May 19, 2026April 27, 202622dINV# 3579790 -AIRFARE- TL263900008 YUNTAO ZHOU -DEP-39 E-TICKET 5267485306369$274
3May 19, 2026April 27, 202622dINV# 3579790 -AIRFARE- TL263900008 YUNTAO ZHOU -DEP-39 E-TICKET 7485306369- SERVICE FEE$5
4June 9, 2026May 28, 202612dPRIVACY-OFFICE OF FINANCE$1,108
5June 9, 2026May 28, 202612dPRIVACY-OFFICE OF FINANCE$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.