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What has the City spent on Contract Brush Clearance?

$33.6M across 2,731 payments, July 19, 2017 to August 20, 2026 — 71 purchase orders and 12 vendors, run by Fire.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: CONTRACT BRUSH CLEARANCE

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 71 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.

$33.6MTotal spent
71Purchase orders
12Vendors
35%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$5.0M
FY2018-19
$2.9M
FY2019-20
$3.8M
FY2020-21
$3.5M
FY2021-22
$5.3M
FY2022-23
$1.8M
FY2023-24
$3.5M
FY2024-25
$4.4M
FY2025-26
$3.3M
FY2026-27 *
$133K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $197K.

Who was paid

568 payments

138 payments

311 payments

220 payments

174 payments

111 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 71 purchase orders booked to this line.

64 payments · August 27, 2021 to June 21, 2022

92 payments · August 16, 2017 to August 1, 2018

47 payments · September 6, 2024 to June 20, 2025

45 payments · September 2, 2022 to August 29, 2023

44 payments · August 16, 2017 to August 30, 2018

67 payments · August 1, 2018 to July 29, 2019

51 payments · August 13, 2020 to August 24, 2021

51 payments · August 26, 2021 to June 6, 2022

92 payments · August 19, 2019 to July 27, 2020

76 payments · August 12, 2020 to August 20, 2021

37 payments · August 20, 2019 to March 26, 2020

29 payments · August 25, 2023 to July 17, 2024

13 payments · August 26, 2025 to June 10, 2026

32 payments · August 26, 2025 to August 20, 2026

60 payments · November 9, 2021 to June 22, 2022

75 payments · August 16, 2017 to July 27, 2018

72 payments · August 28, 2018 to July 23, 2019

70 payments · August 24, 2023 to July 24, 2024

22 payments · August 24, 2023 to July 10, 2024

93 payments · August 19, 2019 to July 27, 2020

18 payments · September 6, 2024 to July 2, 2025

37 payments · August 26, 2025 to June 10, 2026

65 payments · September 4, 2025 to June 10, 2026

75 payments · September 1, 2022 to August 1, 2023

49 payments · August 8, 2018 to July 8, 2019

44 payments · September 19, 2023 to July 23, 2024

45 payments · August 21, 2017 to July 11, 2018

39 payments · September 6, 2024 to June 20, 2025

75 payments · August 12, 2020 to August 20, 2021

69 payments · September 6, 2024 to June 23, 2025

28 payments · December 20, 2023 to July 10, 2024

46 payments · September 5, 2024 to June 20, 2025

37 payments · September 2, 2022 to August 17, 2023

76 payments · August 26, 2025 to June 10, 2026

65 payments · August 25, 2021 to June 21, 2022

9 payments · July 21, 2017 to December 1, 2017

36 payments · September 28, 2022 to July 27, 2023

38 payments · October 7, 2021 to January 14, 2022

25 payments · August 10, 2017 to June 25, 2018

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.