CheckbookBudget line
What has the City spent on Water and Electricity?
$258K across 507 payments, July 13, 2017 to September 3, 2026 — 22 purchase orders and 4 vendors, run by El Pueblo de Los Angeles.
As published: WATER AND ELECTRICITY
This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 22 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): $317.
Who was paid
238 payments
2 payments
264 payments
3 payments
Under which orders
54 payments · August 24, 2022 to August 22, 2023
46 payments · September 10, 2025 to July 22, 2026
1 payment · March 20, 2026 to March 20, 2026
55 payments · August 27, 2024 to September 10, 2025
26 payments · August 16, 2021 to July 6, 2022
40 payments · August 22, 2023 to August 27, 2024
47 payments · August 12, 2019 to July 17, 2020
40 payments · August 3, 2018 to July 12, 2019
44 payments · August 15, 2017 to July 11, 2018
11 payments · June 4, 2025 to March 19, 2026
41 payments · August 19, 2020 to July 14, 2021
10 payments · July 22, 2026 to September 3, 2026
22 payments · January 7, 2026 to August 4, 2026
3 payments · August 23, 2019 to September 20, 2019
6 payments · October 6, 2022 to September 13, 2023
12 payments · August 19, 2019 to July 10, 2020
12 payments · August 9, 2018 to July 18, 2019
9 payments · August 13, 2020 to February 10, 2022
8 payments · December 8, 2017 to July 16, 2018
8 payments · August 20, 2025 to April 21, 2026
3 payments · July 13, 2017 to July 13, 2017
2 payments · May 26, 2022 to June 23, 2022
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.