CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Department Administrative?

$1.7M across 672 payments, July 14, 2017 to August 20, 2026 — 61 purchase orders and 18 vendors, run by Recreation and Parks.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATIVE

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 61 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.

$1.7MTotal spent
61Purchase orders
18Vendors
80%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$29K
FY2018-19
$7K
FY2019-20
$40K
FY2020-21
$6K
FY2021-22
$6K
FY2022-23
$156K
FY2023-24
$1.3M
FY2024-25
$118K
FY2025-26
$32K
FY2026-27 *
$3K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $6K.

Who was paid

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 61 purchase orders booked to this line.

286 payments · July 13, 2023 to September 13, 2023

40 payments · June 12, 2023 to June 12, 2023

3 payments · February 6, 2024 to February 6, 2024

1 payment · January 22, 2025 to January 22, 2025

13 payments · October 16, 2024 to December 18, 2024

3 payments · February 25, 2025 to April 29, 2025

15 payments · July 14, 2017 to April 13, 2018

1 payment · October 30, 2025 to October 30, 2025

10 payments · September 12, 2022 to June 21, 2023

2 payments · July 24, 2025 to May 5, 2026

1 payment · January 21, 2025 to January 21, 2025

1 payment · August 13, 2024 to August 13, 2024

1 payment · July 22, 2024 to July 22, 2024

1 payment · February 1, 2022 to February 1, 2022

1 payment · January 25, 2018 to January 25, 2018

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

1 payment · June 4, 2025 to June 4, 2025

21 payments · March 31, 2020 to March 31, 2020

1 payment · December 26, 2017 to December 26, 2017

1 payment · December 20, 2019 to December 20, 2019

3 payments · August 19, 2026 to August 19, 2026

2 payments · June 22, 2020 to June 22, 2020

2 payments · November 20, 2024 to November 20, 2024

3 payments · September 18, 2025 to September 29, 2025

1 payment · November 13, 2023 to November 13, 2023

3 payments · April 21, 2020 to April 21, 2020

8 payments · January 29, 2020 to January 29, 2020

13 payments · June 1, 2020 to June 1, 2020

4 payments · March 6, 2020 to March 6, 2020

3 payments · September 18, 2025 to September 24, 2025

40 payments · February 3, 2020 to February 3, 2020

1 payment · February 5, 2020 to February 5, 2020

1 payment · April 13, 2020 to April 13, 2020

3 payments · April 14, 2020 to April 14, 2020

10 payments · July 24, 2017 to July 24, 2017

2 payments · January 22, 2020 to January 22, 2020

1 payment · March 19, 2020 to March 19, 2020

1 payment · November 8, 2024 to November 8, 2024

9 payments · January 8, 2020 to January 8, 2020

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.