Paid by the city

HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT CLERK

The city's published checkbook records $28,866,534 paid to HARRIS COUNTY DISTRICT CLERK across 97 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$9,598,170

FY2019$1,267,848

FY2020$416,555

FY2021$527,164

FY2022$605,169

FY2023$2,447,595

FY2024$7,322,439

FY2025$1,328

FY2026$3,539,524

FY2027$3,140,742

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

Citywide General Government$19,875,210

Houston Public Works - HPW$8,958,975

Legal Department$28,950

Finance$3,399

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $19,875,208

Vendor Invoice — $8,918,921

PO Cap Proj Release — $72,403

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

Contracts billed under

4600018063 — $4,913,767

4600017453 — $2,437,349

4600017974 — $2,405,417

4600019332 — $2,256,959

4600019189 — $2,105,704

4600015121 — $1,267,571

4600019452 — $1,208,542

4600019505 — $1,036,549

4600016380 — $807,290

4600015736 — $726,439

4600014597 — $709,621

4600015965 — $72,403

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.