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What has the City paid on purchase order SC30CO26202741M?

$100K paid to Friends of Watts Towers Arts Center across 2 payments from September 26, 2025 to June 11, 2026, charged to Cultural Affairs / Watts Towers Jazz & Drum Festival.

What it was for

Watts Towers Jazz & Drum Festival

Budget line.

Order description, as published:

FRIENDS OF WATTS TOWERS ART CENTER

Approval records

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

Order dated September 17, 2025.

Paid from

General Fund

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

Department: Cultural Affairs

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
1September 26, 2025September 24, 20252dPLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF 2025 DAY OF THE DRUM AND WATTS TOWERS JAZZ FESTIVAL$90,000
2June 11, 2026June 8, 20263dPLANNING AND PRODUCTION OF 2025 DAY OF THE DRUM AND WATTS TOWERS JAZZ FESTIVAL$10,000

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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.