CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Expenditure?

$5.7M across 1,646 payments, July 12, 2017 to August 24, 2026 — 67 purchase orders and 16 vendors, run by Building and Safety.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: EXPENDITURE

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 67 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.

$5.7MTotal spent
67Purchase orders
16Vendors
34%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$432K
FY2018-19
$322K
FY2019-20
$277K
FY2020-21
$192K
FY2021-22
$279K
FY2022-23
$965K
FY2023-24
$1.0M
FY2024-25
$1.5M
FY2025-26
$671K
FY2026-27 *
$6K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $238K.

Who was paid

Under which orders

The 40 largest of 67 purchase orders booked to this line.

158 payments · July 19, 2023 to November 21, 2024

107 payments · October 4, 2022 to February 7, 2024

60 payments · September 13, 2024 to September 26, 2025

22 payments · September 20, 2024 to May 1, 2025

13 payments · February 6, 2018 to January 23, 2019

64 payments · September 27, 2024 to April 29, 2025

13 payments · August 19, 2025 to April 23, 2026

145 payments · July 21, 2022 to December 28, 2023

39 payments · July 17, 2025 to October 21, 2025

71 payments · August 9, 2022 to May 2, 2023

21 payments · September 12, 2023 to December 12, 2024

48 payments · August 22, 2023 to July 30, 2024

52 payments · November 7, 2018 to October 30, 2019

44 payments · July 12, 2017 to October 30, 2018

42 payments · September 14, 2021 to October 4, 2022

76 payments · August 1, 2023 to May 21, 2024

60 payments · August 26, 2019 to March 3, 2021

19 payments · September 16, 2020 to May 16, 2022

45 payments · October 8, 2024 to September 18, 2025

18 payments · March 24, 2020 to September 24, 2020

5 payments · February 10, 2026 to June 11, 2026

12 payments · August 29, 2022 to October 4, 2022

4 payments · May 17, 2022 to September 20, 2022

16 payments · September 14, 2021 to September 20, 2022

2 payments · January 23, 2019 to January 23, 2019

22 payments · November 2, 2018 to September 4, 2019

5 payments · August 4, 2020 to December 24, 2020

15 payments · July 30, 2024 to August 13, 2024

37 payments · October 21, 2021 to November 7, 2022

43 payments · May 7, 2024 to November 27, 2024

43 payments · August 7, 2017 to November 20, 2018

22 payments · September 24, 2020 to April 25, 2022

40 payments · September 6, 2018 to August 27, 2019

2 payments · December 18, 2025 to December 18, 2025

50 payments · July 19, 2017 to May 17, 2018

14 payments · July 20, 2021 to April 25, 2022

35 payments · August 26, 2019 to June 22, 2020

4 payments · May 18, 2026 to May 18, 2026

15 payments · April 30, 2018 to November 7, 2018

2 payments · December 26, 2024 to December 26, 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.