Paid by the city

COASTAL WATER AUTHORITY

The city's published checkbook records $403,518,276 paid to COASTAL WATER AUTHORITY across 693 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$25,778,016

FY2019$25,824,638

FY2020$33,809,685

FY2021$36,877,862

FY2022$40,449,212

FY2023$45,608,889

FY2024$53,761,984

FY2025$65,841,838

FY2026$75,566,152

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 Public Works - HPW$403,518,276

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $292,312,744

Vendor Invoice — $97,291,747

PO Cap Proj Release — $11,335,085

PO Emergency — $2,578,700

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 1% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600000398 — $236,342,987

4600013571 — $30,169,429

4600000436 — $27,064,437

4600015913 — $9,376,824

4600018498 — $694,152

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.