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What has the City spent on Pershing Square Operation Account?
$6.4M across 2,517 payments, July 6, 2017 to August 31, 2026 — 512 purchase orders and 103 vendors, run by Recreation and Parks.
As published: PERSHING SQUARE OPERATION ACCOUNT
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 512 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): $114K.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 103 vendors on this line.
56 payments
17 payments
75 payments
9 payments
6 payments
11 payments
3 payments
43 payments
326 payments
140 payments
51 payments
37 payments
3 payments
74 payments
4 payments
2 payments
4 payments
3 payments
86 payments
19 payments
4 payments
2 payments
2 payments
86 payments
3 payments
Under which orders
The 39 largest of 512 purchase orders booked to this line.
9 payments · November 6, 2024 to August 21, 2025
11 payments · August 17, 2023 to June 14, 2024
20 payments · August 1, 2019 to January 6, 2021
12 payments · October 13, 2022 to July 26, 2023
6 payments · August 31, 2018 to September 19, 2019
43 payments · September 21, 2017 to April 13, 2018
4 payments · September 12, 2022 to May 9, 2023
3 payments · May 21, 2018 to July 12, 2018
2 payments · May 23, 2018 to June 20, 2018
3 payments · December 19, 2019 to March 16, 2020
4 payments · September 18, 2023 to June 14, 2024
9 payments · August 7, 2017 to September 12, 2017
1 payment · January 26, 2024 to January 26, 2024
2 payments · January 6, 2025 to January 6, 2025
13 payments · March 3, 2025 to August 13, 2025
2 payments · November 27, 2018 to February 5, 2019
1 payment · January 8, 2018 to January 8, 2018
1 payment · July 13, 2017 to July 13, 2017
2 payments · December 4, 2018 to January 24, 2019
33 payments · December 23, 2019 to December 23, 2019
3 payments · June 24, 2019 to June 24, 2019
30 payments · May 14, 2019 to May 14, 2019
2 payments · June 21, 2018 to June 21, 2018
5 payments · September 19, 2019 to November 7, 2019
2 payments · May 23, 2018 to June 20, 2018
2 payments · February 1, 2024 to February 1, 2024
3 payments · September 22, 2021 to January 31, 2022
1 payment · February 29, 2024 to February 29, 2024
2 payments · April 28, 2026 to June 17, 2026
8 payments · July 11, 2019 to April 9, 2020
11 payments · September 12, 2022 to July 13, 2023
2 payments · April 15, 2025 to June 16, 2025
4 payments · January 22, 2025 to January 22, 2025
1 payment · October 5, 2023 to October 5, 2023
1 payment · October 24, 2017 to October 24, 2017
1 payment · April 20, 2020 to April 20, 2020
3 payments · February 22, 2023 to July 25, 2023
1 payment · October 24, 2017 to October 24, 2017
23 payments · November 9, 2018 to September 24, 2019
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.