CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Automated Containers?
$83.2M across 554 payments, March 11, 2019 to September 8, 2026 — 13 purchase orders and 3 vendors, run by Non-departmental.
As published: AUTOMATED CONTAINERS
This budget line has run for 9 fiscal years across 13 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.
Spending by fiscal year
* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $2.7M.
Who was paid
Under which orders
74 payments · September 4, 2025 to September 8, 2026
64 payments · October 3, 2023 to October 23, 2024
71 payments · October 8, 2024 to December 11, 2025
70 payments · December 23, 2020 to October 28, 2021
70 payments · August 26, 2021 to September 8, 2022
70 payments · October 31, 2019 to September 18, 2020
59 payments · March 11, 2019 to October 22, 2019
59 payments · October 4, 2022 to November 21, 2024
4 payments · August 28, 2026 to September 3, 2026
5 payments · April 5, 2021 to April 5, 2021
4 payments · July 19, 2022 to July 20, 2022
2 payments · July 22, 2019 to July 31, 2019
2 payments · December 4, 2019 to December 4, 2019
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.