CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Building and Safety Contractual Services?
$73.4M across 13,136 payments, August 9, 2019 to September 9, 2026 — 1,660 purchase orders and 83 vendors, run by Building and Safety.
As published: BUILDING AND SAFETY CONTRACTUAL SERVICES
This budget line has run for 8 fiscal years across 1,660 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): $1.8M.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 83 vendors on this line.
686 payments
74 payments
884 payments
1,079 payments
65 payments
42 payments
3 payments
553 payments
513 payments
24 payments
322 payments
191 payments
76 payments
13 payments
334 payments
99 payments
97 payments
4 payments
33 payments
135 payments
5,533 payments
18 payments
265 payments
332 payments
686 payments
Under which orders
The 40 largest of 1,660 purchase orders booked to this line.
22 payments · September 3, 2025 to July 22, 2026
21 payments · November 8, 2019 to August 3, 2020
264 payments · July 10, 2024 to August 14, 2026
32 payments · October 6, 2020 to October 6, 2021
23 payments · August 28, 2024 to July 21, 2025
20 payments · September 29, 2022 to August 3, 2023
13 payments · September 6, 2023 to July 19, 2024
1 payment · October 7, 2025 to October 7, 2025
453 payments · July 23, 2024 to June 22, 2026
180 payments · November 7, 2023 to September 29, 2025
1 payment · September 4, 2024 to September 4, 2024
163 payments · July 16, 2025 to September 9, 2026
13 payments · December 17, 2021 to May 23, 2022
18 payments · September 10, 2024 to August 4, 2025
12 payments · July 22, 2025 to June 23, 2026
160 payments · November 30, 2022 to August 7, 2024
114 payments · April 15, 2020 to July 15, 2021
10 payments · June 17, 2022 to September 29, 2022
189 payments · August 4, 2021 to March 17, 2023
119 payments · July 16, 2021 to March 20, 2023
110 payments · November 18, 2022 to June 20, 2024
16 payments · September 25, 2025 to September 25, 2025
104 payments · November 21, 2023 to July 23, 2025
1 payment · March 5, 2026 to March 5, 2026
14 payments · November 13, 2020 to May 27, 2021
1 payment · March 3, 2025 to March 3, 2025
20 payments · October 27, 2022 to October 27, 2022
20 payments · September 26, 2023 to September 26, 2023
18 payments · August 31, 2023 to November 26, 2024
8 payments · July 23, 2021 to December 29, 2021
1 payment · January 26, 2024 to January 26, 2024
108 payments · June 9, 2025 to March 3, 2026
23 payments · October 19, 2021 to October 19, 2021
23 payments · September 3, 2020 to September 3, 2020
19 payments · September 16, 2024 to September 16, 2024
61 payments · September 28, 2021 to March 21, 2023
108 payments · September 5, 2024 to May 28, 2025
28 payments · February 18, 2025 to July 23, 2026
8 payments · February 13, 2024 to August 28, 2024
108 payments · September 1, 2023 to May 28, 2024
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.