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What has the City paid Friends of the Observatory /C?

$4.0M in City payments across 43 checks, from August 24, 2018 to March 6, 2020. Outside-vendor scope only — payroll, transfers, debt and pension custody are excluded.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: FRIENDS OF THE OBSERVATORY /C

$4.0MTotal paid
43Payments
$93,109Average payment
FY2018-19Peak full year · $2.4M

By fiscal year

FY2018-19
$2.4M
FY2019-20
$1.6M

Who pays them

Recreation and Parks – Special Accounts$3.4M
Recreation and Parks$569K
City Council$4K

What for

Observatory Surcharge Acct$3.4M

36 payments

Griffith Observatory Program$569K

6 payments

CD 4 Redevelopment Fund$4K

1 payment

Most recent payments

The 25 latest to post. Purpose strings are the Controller's own reference codes — the budget line in the second column is usually the more informative field.

DateBudget linePurposeAmount
March 6, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 12/10/19-1/15/20$95,211
March 6, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 11/22/19-12/31/19$93,906
March 6, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 1/1/20-1/31/20$80,990
March 4, 2020CD 4 Redevelopment FundCity Council2018-2019 FRIENDS OF THE OBSERVATORY SCHOOL BUS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$4,088
January 27, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 11/21/19-12/15/19$95,852
January 10, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 10/26/19-11/15/19$110,921
January 10, 2020Griffith Observatory ProgramRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 11/1/19-11/30/19$92,385
December 2, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES10/1/19-10/31/19.$120,976
November 12, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 9/23/19-10/15/19$111,868
October 31, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 9/1/19-9/30/19$125,161
October 15, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 8/12/19-9/15/19$107,028
October 1, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 8/1/19-8/31/19$97,715
September 17, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 7/26-8/15/19$91,476
September 9, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 7/1-7/31/19$114,379
August 13, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 4/15-7/15/19$132,159
August 13, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION SERVICES 6/1-6/30/19$102,028
June 21, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 5/20/19 - 6/15/19.$106,347
June 17, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 5/1/19 - 5/31/19.$111,904
June 13, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 3/1/19 - 5/15/19.$111,455
May 29, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 4/8/19 - 4/30/19.$107,757
May 10, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 3/25/19 - 4/15/19.$102,840
April 29, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 3/11/19 - 3/31/19.$105,552
April 15, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 2/25/19 - 3/15/19.$113,019
March 29, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 1/31/19 - 2/28/19.$112,097
March 19, 2019Observatory Surcharge AcctRecreation and ParksDIGITAL VIDEO ANIMATION DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION SERVICES, 1/28/19 - 2/15/19$93,656

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (dataset pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Figures are every payment on record within the outside-vendor scope, not a single fiscal year. Back to the checkbook.