Paid by the city

LIFE-ASSIST INC.

The city's published checkbook records $15,702,263 paid to LIFE-ASSIST INC. across 4,973 payment lines, from FY2019 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—

FY2019$350,820

FY2020$1,594,223

FY2021$2,407,467

FY2022$3,275,572

FY2023$1,519,652

FY2024$2,539,086

FY2025$2,152,952

FY2026$1,862,491

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 Fire Department (HFD)$14,319,103

Houston Health Department$685,321

Finance$464,385

Houston Police Department-HPD$127,792

Citywide General Government$42,057

Houston Airport System (HAS)$34,392

Mayor's Office$25,525

Admn. & Regulatory Affairs$3,688

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $14,808,927

PO Emergency — $871,267

PO Interlocal — $44,022

PO One-time — $16,104

Vendor Invoice — -$38,057

These are the purchasing routes the city recorded: 6% was bought under emergency procurement rules. The city publishes the route, not the reason for it.

Contracts billed under

4600015158 — $8,958,130

4600017916 — $5,660,134

4600018226 — $196,864

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.