Paid by the city

LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES INC

The city's published checkbook records $1,011,387 paid to LANGUAGE LINE SERVICES INC across 126 payment lines, from FY2022 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—

FY2019—

FY2020—

FY2021—

FY2022$1,376

FY2023$862

FY2024$117,427

FY2025$344,940

FY2026$465,481

FY2027$81,301

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)$516,594

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$404,020

Houston Police Department-HPD$45,732

Houston Health Department$27,917

Dept of Neighborhoods (DON)$9,925

Houston Public Works - HPW$3,641

Houston Airport System (HAS)$3,558

How these purchases were made

Service Rel. Order — $516,317

PO Contract Release — $472,802

Vendor Invoice — $14,147

PO One-time — $8,120

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

Contracts billed under

4600017930 — $516,317

4600018334 — $186,702

4600019030 — $154,329

4600017213 — $85,490

4600017690 — $46,281

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.