Paid by the city

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

The city's published checkbook records $18,616,466 paid to DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY across 176 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$1,718,573

FY2019$1,403,488

FY2020$1,304,677

FY2021$195,878

FY2022$1,900,660

FY2023$3,069,182

FY2024$4,200,923

FY2025$2,444,640

FY2026$2,378,445

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)$18,616,466

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $18,594,968

PO Contract Release — $21,499

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

Contracts billed under

4600015034 — $14,872,713

4600012411 — $2,313,851

4600017481 — $803,652

4600014866 — $329,359

4600018845 — $139,593

4600017293 — $86,034

4600018190 — $49,766

4600018258 — $14,847

4600018844 — $4,751

4600018843 — $1,900

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.