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What has the City paid on purchase order GAETL40TL254000019?

$18K paid to 3 different vendors (the largest, Privacy-General Services, received $11.8K) across 35 payments from February 26, 2025 to April 10, 2025, charged to General Services / Travel.

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

3 different vendors draw against this purchase order, so the $18K 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-GENERAL SERVICES

VLAHOS, DICKINSON, PIRCEY, CAPECE, POSTAL, MOWREY, LANDRUM

Approval records

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

Order dated February 19, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: General Services

Paid to

Privacy-General Services$12K · 14 payments
Helicopter Association International Inc$3K · 7 payments
US Bank$3K · 14 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
1February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,800
2February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,600
3February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,600
4February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,600
5February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,400
6February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$1,000
7February 26, 2025March 13, 2025—PRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$950
8February 27, 2025January 31, 202527dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$615
9February 27, 2025January 31, 202527dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$615
10February 27, 2025January 31, 202527dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$615
11February 27, 2025January 31, 202527dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$570
12February 27, 2025February 4, 202523dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$250
13February 27, 2025February 4, 202523dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$250
14February 27, 2025January 31, 202527dTUITION: DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$250
15March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, DOUGLAS POSTAL, DALLAS, TX - 3/09/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$429
16March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, TIMOTHY CAPECE, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$427
17March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, MATTHEW DICKINSON, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$427
18March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, DANIEL VLAHOS, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$427
19March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, TONY PIRCEY, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$427
20March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, CLAUDIA LANDRUM, DALLAS, TX - 3/10/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$393
21March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, JEFF G. MOWREY, DALLAS, TX - 3/10/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$355
22March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, MATTHEW DICKINSON, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
23March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, JEFF G. MOWREY, DALLAS, TX - 3/10/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
24March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, CLAUDIA LANDRUM, DALLAS, TX - 3/10/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
25March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, DOUGLAS POSTAL, DALLAS, TX - 3/09/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
26March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, TONY PIRCEY, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
27March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, DANIEL VLAHOS, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
28March 19, 2025February 25, 202522dAIRFARE,TL19, TIMOTHY CAPECE, DALLAS, TX - 3/08/25-3/13/25 - VAI VERTICON EXPO$5
29April 4, 2025March 13, 202522dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$269
30April 4, 2025March 13, 202522dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$269
31April 4, 2025March 13, 202522dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$189
32April 10, 2025March 13, 202528dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$393
33April 10, 2025March 13, 202528dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$268
34April 10, 2025March 13, 202528dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$259
35April 10, 2025March 13, 202528dPRIVACY-GENERAL SERVICES$168

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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.