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What has the City spent on Sanitation Contracts?

$19.2M across 6,303 payments, July 21, 2017 to August 27, 2026 — 49 purchase orders and 20 vendors, run by Non-departmental.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: SANITATION CONTRACTS

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 49 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.

$19.2MTotal spent
49Purchase orders
20Vendors
31%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$2.7M
FY2018-19
$2.3M
FY2019-20
$2.7M
FY2020-21
$2.0M
FY2021-22
$1.7M
FY2022-23
$1.3M
FY2023-24
$2.4M
FY2024-25
$2.9M
FY2025-26
$1.2M
FY2026-27 *
$536

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $138K.

Who was paid

57 payments

70 payments

15 payments

8 payments

13 payments

4 payments

3 payments

10 payments

1 payment

8 payments

19 payments

2 payments

2 payments

6 payments

9 payments

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 49 purchase orders booked to this line.

21 payments · December 18, 2019 to September 24, 2021

11 payments · February 21, 2025 to May 12, 2026

882 payments · October 11, 2019 to April 7, 2023

1,245 payments · September 5, 2017 to September 24, 2018

19 payments · November 21, 2017 to November 21, 2018

706 payments · January 27, 2021 to March 11, 2024

15 payments · May 1, 2024 to June 11, 2025

825 payments · September 10, 2018 to February 3, 2021

7 payments · October 27, 2023 to October 28, 2024

10 payments · March 22, 2024 to March 10, 2025

517 payments · May 10, 2023 to June 14, 2024

8 payments · October 14, 2020 to September 7, 2021

544 payments · May 16, 2022 to December 15, 2023

6 payments · April 15, 2019 to August 12, 2019

578 payments · July 29, 2024 to August 27, 2026

21 payments · August 3, 2021 to October 25, 2023

606 payments · October 28, 2024 to April 8, 2026

13 payments · February 8, 2018 to February 15, 2019

14 payments · February 15, 2019 to December 12, 2019

13 payments · August 5, 2020 to August 3, 2021

17 payments · December 12, 2019 to April 28, 2021

7 payments · January 12, 2024 to October 30, 2024

12 payments · April 28, 2021 to February 4, 2022

9 payments · February 4, 2022 to October 12, 2022

14 payments · December 13, 2017 to March 21, 2019

12 payments · February 15, 2018 to October 2, 2018

11 payments · October 1, 2024 to April 14, 2026

6 payments · March 17, 2026 to June 16, 2026

5 payments · August 21, 2017 to November 21, 2017

3 payments · June 17, 2025 to November 20, 2025

10 payments · May 8, 2024 to October 17, 2024

11 payments · August 22, 2017 to January 11, 2019

1 payment · May 2, 2019 to May 2, 2019

1 payment · November 20, 2017 to November 20, 2017

5 payments · August 14, 2017 to April 4, 2018

1 payment · July 21, 2021 to July 21, 2021

8 payments · January 17, 2020 to September 12, 2022

1 payment · March 28, 2018 to March 28, 2018

4 payments · November 28, 2017 to January 29, 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.