PASSEDHouston City Council · 2025-11-18

The city council is considering a five-year contract worth up to $10 million with Cotton Commercial USA, Inc. to provide emergency and non-emergency disaster cleanup and rebuilding services — such as water, fire, mold, and hazardous material remediation — at Houston's airports, with an initial $2 million appropriated from the Airports Renewal and Replacement Fund.

What it means for you

This contract affects travelers and airport workers at George Bush Intercontinental, Hobby, and Ellington airports by ensuring a vendor is on call around the clock to restore airport facilities quickly after disasters or other damaging events.

Outcome

Adopted — vote recorded in official minutes. Council Member Plummer absent. Ordinance 2025-0975, official minutes of Nov 18-19, 2025.

Airports — see all →Citywide (IAH, HOU, and Ellington Airport)

Official sources

Item cover sheet — summary and background ↗Meeting minutes — full record with the vote (PDF) ↗

The cover sheet is the item's official summary page; supporting attachments (contracts, maps, fiscal notes) are listed at the bottom of it. The minutes show what happened at the meeting.

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How to weigh in

Where: City Hall, 901 Bagby, 2nd Floor, Houston, TX 77002
When: Council meets Tuesdays 1:30 p.m. & Wednesdays 9:00 a.m. Public Session — when you can speak — is Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. (5:00 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month).
Speak: Register by 3:00 p.m. the Monday before: call 832.393.1100, email speakers@houstontx.gov, or go in person to the City Secretary (City Hall Annex, 900 Bagby, Room P101). Each speaker gets 1–3 minutes.
Watch: Live on HTV ↗

From the City Council meetings information page. Confirm the exact date on the official agenda before you go.

Quick answersfrom the official record

How much?$10,000,000coversheet ↗

Who's paid?COTTON COMMERCIAL USA, INCcoversheet ↗

Which fund?Airports Renewal and Replacement Fundcoversheet ↗

Who decides?Houston City Council — its 16 members (11 district + 5 at-large) vote; the Mayor presides and also votes. Taken up at the November 18, 2025 meeting — Adopted.minutes ↗

What this company has been paid

The city's published checkbook records $5,056,633 paid to COTTON COMMERCIAL USA INC across 28 payment lines, FY2018–FY2026.

That is money already paid across all city business with this company — not the amount this item approves, and not a total for this contract.

See the year-by-year breakdown →

Cite this: https://plaindocket.com/item/real-35830 — data from official records via PlainDocket.