Paid by the city

AAR INC

The city's published checkbook records $2,706,450 paid to AAR INC across 219 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2026.

Name as the city files it — often the legal name, not the trading name. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018$211,435

FY2019$284,678

FY2020$241,166

FY2021$218,674

FY2022$275,436

FY2023$905,745

FY2024$466,888

FY2025$38,945

FY2026$63,483

A dash means no payment to this vendor appears in that year's file. The city publishes this a few times a year, so it runs behind — the newest payments can take a few months to appear, and a fiscal year that has just ended usually isn't published at all yet. Treat the most recent year as incomplete.

Which department paid

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$1,712,412

Houston Police Department-HPD$200,887

Houston Airport System (HAS)$148,604

Houston Public Works - HPW$134,339

Parks & Recreation$101,310

Houston Fire Department (HFD)$98,169

General Services Department$88,752

Library$84,262

Houston Health Department$74,590

Solid Waste Management$63,125

How these purchases were made

PO Cap Proj Release — $2,555,527

PO Emergency — $150,880

Vendor Invoice — $42

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 6% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600014867 — $1,845,651

4600017585 — $594,866

4600011551 — $115,010

A contract number is the city's master agreement; individual purchases are released against it and don't each go back to council for a vote.

Where this comes from

Every figure on this page is summed from the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗, FY2018–FY2026. PlainDocket stores the totals; the individual payments stay on the city's portal, where you can filter them yourself.

These are payments, not a budget. The same ledger carries debt payments, bank and pension transfers and accounting reversals alongside what the city bought, so adding it all up doesn't describe city spending — which is why you won't find a citywide total here. What a named vendor or department was paid is solid.
This covers what the city paid — not what a council vote approved. A contract approved years ago can still be generating payments, and money approved recently may not have been paid yet.