CheckbookBudget line

What has the City spent on Travel Expense?

$962K across 2,036 payments, July 13, 2017 to September 2, 2025 — 216 purchase orders and 9 vendors, run by Library.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: TRAVEL EXPENSE

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 9 fiscal years across 216 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.

$962KTotal spent
216Purchase orders
9Vendors
89%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$149K
FY2018-19
$236K
FY2019-20
$97K
FY2020-21
$2K
FY2021-22
$22K
FY2022-23
$95K
FY2023-24
$129K
FY2024-25
$149K
FY2025-26
$84K

Who was paid

Under which orders

The 39 largest of 216 purchase orders booked to this line.

134 payments · July 16, 2024 to January 10, 2025

92 payments · July 21, 2025 to August 25, 2025

101 payments · June 12, 2018 to September 21, 2018

86 payments · May 13, 2019 to August 15, 2019

91 payments · August 8, 2018 to February 7, 2019

77 payments · November 13, 2018 to February 8, 2019

64 payments · July 18, 2023 to September 20, 2023

78 payments · July 18, 2017 to September 12, 2017

62 payments · January 15, 2019 to March 28, 2019

47 payments · July 29, 2022 to February 15, 2023

12 payments · September 18, 2023 to October 10, 2023

53 payments · December 12, 2019 to October 6, 2020

26 payments · May 3, 2024 to July 18, 2024

37 payments · July 18, 2023 to September 1, 2023

38 payments · December 12, 2019 to June 17, 2020

12 payments · April 3, 2019 to May 15, 2019

24 payments · March 7, 2025 to March 25, 2025

39 payments · February 14, 2018 to June 25, 2018

45 payments · February 14, 2018 to March 28, 2018

21 payments · October 11, 2018 to January 4, 2019

48 payments · November 30, 2017 to January 5, 2018

35 payments · June 17, 2022 to January 19, 2023

29 payments · February 17, 2023 to June 6, 2023

3 payments · March 7, 2019 to May 30, 2019

19 payments · March 14, 2023 to May 25, 2023

3 payments · January 11, 2018 to March 8, 2018

8 payments · March 15, 2024 to September 19, 2024

6 payments · March 12, 2025 to April 22, 2025

7 payments · April 5, 2023 to September 12, 2023

6 payments · July 12, 2018 to September 21, 2018

14 payments · March 13, 2024 to July 10, 2024

6 payments · June 23, 2025 to July 21, 2025

9 payments · April 11, 2018 to August 17, 2018

4 payments · July 25, 2023 to July 25, 2023

18 payments · April 11, 2022 to May 24, 2022

12 payments · November 30, 2017 to December 6, 2017

9 payments · September 11, 2018 to December 4, 2018

7 payments · July 30, 2019 to February 11, 2020

15 payments · December 19, 2023 to January 4, 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.