Paid by the city

LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES

The city's published checkbook records $1,340,886 paid to LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES across 222 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$130,065

FY2019$40,017

FY2020$35,796

FY2021$338,521

FY2022$89,259

FY2023$132,689

FY2024$297,984

FY2025$241,392

FY2026$35,163

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 Emergency Center (HEC)$647,702

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$473,832

Houston Police Department-HPD$78,708

Houston Health Department$65,797

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$38,838

Housing and Community Devp.$35,914

Parks & Recreation$95

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $689,482

Service Rel. Order — $511,334

Vendor Invoice — $101,861

PO One-time — $38,209

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

Contracts billed under

4600017930 — $511,334

4600015997 — $295,731

4600014083 — $127,655

4600017213 — $118,005

4600016539 — $114,436

4600015218 — $32,217

4600011697 — $1,437

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.