CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Building and Safety Expense and Equipment?
$30.7M across 32,969 payments, July 7, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 6,494 purchase orders and 212 vendors, run by Building and Safety.
As published: BUILDING AND SAFETY EXPENSE AND EQUIPMENT
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 6,494 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): $46K.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 212 vendors on this line.
388 payments
43 payments
63 payments
417 payments
18 payments
970 payments
339 payments
137 payments
405 payments
3 payments
79 payments
1,686 payments
100 payments
69 payments
13 payments
10,314 payments
1,171 payments
47 payments
5,315 payments
28 payments
28 payments
3 payments
87 payments
1,462 payments
98 payments
Under which orders
The 40 largest of 6,494 purchase orders booked to this line.
30 payments · November 16, 2018 to October 10, 2019
13 payments · August 4, 2017 to October 29, 2018
6 payments · April 19, 2023 to April 24, 2023
2 payments · July 21, 2021 to September 20, 2021
254 payments · July 18, 2018 to January 29, 2020
3 payments · March 27, 2025 to March 27, 2025
103 payments · September 11, 2017 to April 9, 2019
6 payments · July 31, 2019 to March 31, 2020
36 payments · December 19, 2019 to December 19, 2019
1,171 payments · January 24, 2018 to April 30, 2019
6 payments · March 15, 2021 to May 7, 2021
9 payments · July 27, 2017 to December 7, 2017
6 payments · December 4, 2020 to June 3, 2021
24 payments · December 27, 2018 to December 27, 2018
24 payments · September 25, 2017 to September 25, 2017
135 payments · December 11, 2018 to June 3, 2019
116 payments · October 22, 2019 to June 22, 2020
111 payments · August 8, 2018 to January 2, 2020
1 payment · March 11, 2020 to March 11, 2020
4 payments · October 5, 2018 to October 11, 2018
4 payments · March 20, 2018 to March 20, 2018
52 payments · May 23, 2018 to July 31, 2019
87 payments · October 17, 2017 to June 19, 2020
1 payment · February 12, 2018 to February 12, 2018
4 payments · July 19, 2018 to July 19, 2018
60 payments · July 17, 2017 to December 3, 2018
11 payments · August 1, 2017 to May 1, 2018
1 payment · October 26, 2023 to October 26, 2023
3 payments · July 9, 2020 to July 9, 2020
2 payments · March 7, 2023 to March 7, 2023
144 payments · January 4, 2018 to April 8, 2019
27 payments · September 20, 2017 to August 2, 2018
146 payments · July 17, 2017 to April 18, 2018
6 payments · March 11, 2021 to May 3, 2021
1 payment · February 22, 2018 to February 22, 2018
1 payment · December 5, 2018 to December 5, 2018
30 payments · October 12, 2018 to July 24, 2019
4 payments · January 18, 2018 to January 18, 2018
13 payments · September 28, 2018 to September 28, 2018
2 payments · July 31, 2017 to July 31, 2017
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.