Paid by the city

MUNICIPAL EMERGENCY SERVICES

The city's published checkbook records $11,099,347 paid to MUNICIPAL EMERGENCY SERVICES across 2,452 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$4,678,692

FY2019$1,267,429

FY2020$696,821

FY2021$385,934

FY2022$645,814

FY2023$1,113,198

FY2024$552,732

FY2025$548,884

FY2026$1,042,629

FY2027$167,214

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)$10,864,163

Mayor's Office$113,909

Houston Public Works - HPW$112,442

Houston Police Department-HPD$13,423

Citywide General Government-$4,590

How these purchases were made

PO Contract Release — $7,038,233

PO One-time — $3,293,091

Service Rel. Order — $775,871

Vendor Invoice — -$7,848

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

Contracts billed under

4600014883 — $4,542,209

4600018309 — $1,323,020

4600012908 — $1,173,003

4600016882 — $775,871

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.