Paid by the city

BAKER & TAYLOR LLC

The city's published checkbook records $4,430,282 paid to BAKER & TAYLOR LLC across 1,414 payment lines, from FY2022 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—

FY2019—

FY2020—

FY2021—

FY2022$201,159

FY2023$1,686,302

FY2024$218,559

FY2025$2,123,278

FY2026$200,984

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

Library$4,430,282

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $2,541,492

PO One-time — $1,629,592

Vendor Invoice — $177,258

PO Contract Release — $81,939

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded. None of this vendor's payments were flagged sole-source or emergency.

Contracts billed under

4600016431 — $2,324,952

4600016852 — $298,480

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.