Paid by the city

BAY AREA HOUSTON ECONOMIC

The city's published checkbook records $1,798,160 paid to BAY AREA HOUSTON ECONOMIC across 91 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$118,153

FY2019$237,135

FY2020$230,796

FY2021$207,699

FY2022$189,196

FY2023$191,703

FY2024$138,524

FY2025$265,708

FY2026$219,246

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

Houston Airport System (HAS)$1,027,283

City Council$447,500

Mayor's Office$323,377

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $1,574,848

PO One-time — $260,000

Vendor Invoice — -$36,687

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

Contracts billed under

4600014659 — $375,000

4600014561 — $367,023

4600017955 — $340,667

4600016248 — $330,000

4600016969 — $81,375

4600018717 — $41,666

4600012921 — $26,617

4600012915 — $12,500

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.