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What has the City spent on Animal Purchases & Sales?

$79K across 178 payments, July 3, 2017 to August 31, 2026 — 33 purchase orders and 12 vendors, run by Zoo.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: ANIMAL PURCHASES & SALES

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 33 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$79KTotal spent
33Purchase orders
12Vendors
50%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$18K
FY2018-19
$10K
FY2019-20
$10K
FY2020-21
$5K
FY2021-22
$5K
FY2022-23
$5K
FY2023-24
$3K
FY2024-25
$5K
FY2025-26
$13K
FY2026-27 *
$4K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $223.

Who was paid

Delta Airlines Inc$39K

117 payments

US Bank$6K

25 payments

Joan Hemker$6K

1 payment

Micanopy Zoological Preserve LLC$5K

1 payment

American Airlines Inc$4K

7 payments

California Natural Resources$4K

3 payments

James Laverne Breitigan Jr$3K

1 payment

James G Wiley Co /C$3K

7 payments

United Airlines Inc$3K

10 payments

Sedgwick County Zoological Society, Inc.$2K

1 payment

Southwest Airlines Cargo$1K

3 payments

Privacy-Zoo$249

2 payments

Under which orders

GAEAE87AE19000003M$8K

19 payments · August 13, 2018 to August 6, 2019

GAEAE87AE26000004M$6K

1 payment · December 1, 2025 to December 1, 2025

GAEAE87AE20000003M$6K

14 payments · July 31, 2019 to April 9, 2020

GAEAE87AE18000026M$5K

1 payment · May 24, 2018 to May 24, 2018

GAEAE87AE23000002M$5K

17 payments · September 16, 2022 to June 6, 2023

GAEAE87AE18000002M$5K

15 payments · September 13, 2017 to July 26, 2018

GAEAE87AE26000002M$5K

11 payments · October 16, 2025 to July 10, 2026

GAEAE87AE22000002M$4K

15 payments · July 28, 2021 to June 23, 2022

GAEAE87AE27000015M$3K

1 payment · August 7, 2026 to August 7, 2026

GAEAE87AE21000002M$3K

5 payments · November 25, 2020 to December 10, 2020

GAEAE87AE25000002M$3K

9 payments · September 25, 2024 to July 30, 2025

GAEAE87AE24000002M$3K

10 payments · October 11, 2023 to July 26, 2024

GAEAE87AE18000003M$3K

10 payments · August 16, 2017 to March 16, 2018

GAEAE87AE18000004M$2K

5 payments · August 15, 2017 to May 18, 2018

SC87CO18126137M$2K

3 payments · December 12, 2017 to May 11, 2018

GAEAE87AE26000032M$2K

1 payment · January 27, 2026 to January 27, 2026

GAEAE87AE20000020M$1K

1 payment · September 6, 2019 to September 6, 2019

GAEAE87AE24000067M$1K

3 payments · April 15, 2024 to July 24, 2024

GAEAE87AE19000020M$1K

1 payment · September 6, 2018 to September 6, 2018

GAEAE87AE18000020M$1K

1 payment · October 11, 2017 to October 11, 2017

GAEAE87AE21000003M$1K

6 payments · September 30, 2020 to July 12, 2021

SC87CO19126137M$1K

6 payments · August 10, 2018 to May 9, 2019

SC87CO20126137M$939

4 payments · December 11, 2019 to June 11, 2020

SC87CO21126137M$809

3 payments · November 10, 2020 to June 10, 2021

GAEAE87AE26000001M$655

1 payment · August 31, 2026 to August 31, 2026

SC87CO25126137M$540

3 payments · August 13, 2024 to December 11, 2024

GAEAE87AE20000005M$535

1 payment · April 17, 2020 to April 17, 2020

SC87CO22126137M$454

3 payments · January 11, 2022 to June 9, 2022

GAEAE87AE19000005M$419

1 payment · November 8, 2018 to November 8, 2018

GAEAE87AE19000002M$419

1 payment · January 25, 2019 to January 25, 2019

SC87CO24126137M$217

2 payments · October 12, 2023 to March 12, 2024

GAEAE87AE17000013M$188

1 payment · July 3, 2017 to July 3, 2017

SC87CO23126137M$134

1 payment · June 9, 2023 to June 9, 2023

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.