Paid by the city

COTTON COMMERCIAL USA INC

The city's published checkbook records $5,063,399 paid to COTTON COMMERCIAL USA INC across 29 payment lines, from FY2018 to FY2027.

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 FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.

By fiscal year

FY2018$4,519,377

FY2019$138,483

FY2020$51,404

FY2021—

FY2022$131,397

FY2023—

FY2024—

FY2025$210,587

FY2026$5,385

FY2027$6,766

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 Police Department-HPD$2,323,754

Municipal Courts Department$2,193,080

General Services Department$294,842

Houston Airport System (HAS)$221,646

Houston Public Works - HPW$28,985

Houston Health Department$1,092

How these purchases were made

PO Emergency — $5,022,944

PO One-time — $27,211

Service Rel. Order — $6,766

Vendor Invoice — $6,477

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 99% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contract billed under

4600019212 — $6,766

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–FY2027. 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.