CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Various Special?
$29.5M across 4,033 payments, August 3, 2017 to September 9, 2026 — 73 purchase orders and 27 vendors, run by Library.
As published: VARIOUS SPECIAL
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 73 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): $645K.
Who was paid
The 25 largest of 27 vendors on this line.
2,379 payments
495 payments
177 payments
193 payments
269 payments
53 payments
26 payments
105 payments
20 payments
205 payments
33 payments
11 payments
3 payments
1 payment
41 payments
1 payment
1 payment
2 payments
1 payment
1 payment
2 payments
1 payment
1 payment
1 payment
1 payment
Under which orders
The 39 largest of 73 purchase orders booked to this line.
1,178 payments · November 17, 2023 to April 1, 2026
495 payments · April 22, 2026 to September 9, 2026
434 payments · February 21, 2023 to November 17, 2023
457 payments · October 4, 2021 to November 22, 2022
25 payments · September 9, 2024 to February 13, 2025
105 payments · October 7, 2020 to August 15, 2023
63 payments · November 15, 2021 to December 5, 2023
15 payments · August 23, 2017 to September 28, 2018
12 payments · September 28, 2018 to August 22, 2019
21 payments · October 7, 2019 to November 9, 2021
120 payments · November 15, 2022 to November 22, 2022
54 payments · October 19, 2023 to July 24, 2024
33 payments · March 31, 2023 to August 16, 2023
131 payments · December 20, 2022 to February 23, 2023
7 payments · March 24, 2025 to August 29, 2025
19 payments · September 24, 2018 to August 22, 2019
57 payments · March 2, 2021 to September 20, 2021
82 payments · October 7, 2019 to February 9, 2021
8 payments · October 7, 2019 to July 27, 2020
11 payments · January 4, 2018 to December 26, 2018
17 payments · February 28, 2023 to February 21, 2024
123 payments · March 9, 2023 to February 13, 2025
23 payments · May 18, 2021 to September 15, 2022
50 payments · September 17, 2018 to August 22, 2019
24 payments · March 2, 2022 to September 15, 2022
63 payments · August 11, 2017 to July 31, 2018
71 payments · October 15, 2021 to August 9, 2024
59 payments · June 22, 2021 to April 21, 2022
6 payments · August 3, 2017 to August 30, 2017
64 payments · November 18, 2021 to April 4, 2024
10 payments · March 1, 2019 to December 4, 2019
2 payments · March 12, 2021 to March 12, 2021
1 payment · July 12, 2018 to July 12, 2018
6 payments · November 20, 2020 to March 23, 2021
4 payments · September 30, 2020 to June 21, 2024
4 payments · April 13, 2022 to June 21, 2024
2 payments · November 19, 2024 to January 9, 2025
1 payment · May 6, 2019 to May 6, 2019
8 payments · November 8, 2021 to November 30, 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.