CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Utilities Expense Private Company?
$57.2M across 5,039 payments, July 3, 2017 to September 8, 2026 — 218 purchase orders and 15 vendors, run by General Services.
As published: UTILITIES EXPENSE PRIVATE COMPANY
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 218 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): $977K.
Who was paid
1,533 payments
778 payments
228 payments
1,471 payments
90 payments
411 payments
57 payments
107 payments
65 payments
71 payments
78 payments
100 payments
32 payments
11 payments
7 payments
Under which orders
The 39 largest of 218 purchase orders booked to this line.
314 payments · September 23, 2022 to August 24, 2023
388 payments · July 26, 2021 to September 9, 2022
206 payments · August 22, 2023 to August 20, 2024
37 payments · August 15, 2025 to July 23, 2026
37 payments · September 12, 2024 to July 16, 2025
330 payments · August 8, 2019 to August 31, 2020
290 payments · September 3, 2020 to July 26, 2021
347 payments · August 13, 2018 to August 6, 2019
311 payments · August 22, 2017 to August 13, 2018
37 payments · September 23, 2022 to September 13, 2023
32 payments · August 12, 2021 to September 23, 2022
36 payments · September 13, 2023 to August 7, 2024
36 payments · September 5, 2025 to August 12, 2026
143 payments · July 31, 2025 to July 29, 2026
31 payments · September 30, 2024 to July 9, 2025
144 payments · August 16, 2023 to October 24, 2024
140 payments · August 26, 2022 to September 1, 2023
157 payments · July 26, 2021 to August 26, 2022
104 payments · August 21, 2024 to July 17, 2025
11 payments · September 30, 2020 to August 12, 2021
147 payments · July 24, 2020 to July 26, 2021
13 payments · September 10, 2019 to August 31, 2020
12 payments · August 30, 2018 to August 2, 2019
3 payments · August 19, 2026 to August 20, 2026
148 payments · August 8, 2019 to July 24, 2020
159 payments · August 13, 2018 to August 6, 2019
164 payments · August 23, 2017 to August 2, 2018
12 payments · October 18, 2018 to September 5, 2019
12 payments · October 3, 2019 to August 18, 2020
43 payments · July 3, 2017 to August 9, 2017
12 payments · September 14, 2017 to July 30, 2018
12 payments · September 22, 2017 to August 16, 2018
14 payments · August 3, 2026 to August 31, 2026
2 payments · August 16, 2017 to August 16, 2017
20 payments · July 7, 2017 to August 22, 2017
19 payments · August 27, 2025 to August 13, 2026
20 payments · August 15, 2023 to September 4, 2024
6 payments · September 12, 2025 to July 16, 2026
7 payments · September 9, 2020 to September 8, 2021
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.