City spending

City Secretary

The city's published checkbook records $293,061 paid out under this department across 19 payment lines and 5 named vendors, FY2018–FY2026.

Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2026 means July 2025 through June 2026.

By fiscal year

FY2018—

FY2019-$40

FY2020$242,958

FY2021$50,043

FY2022$72

FY2023—

FY2024—

FY2025$8

FY2026$20

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.

Largest vendors (5 of 5)

KPMG LLP$49,995

PIONEER CONTRACT SERVICES INC$30,895

TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION$225

HARRIS COUNTY DEPT OF EDUCATION$112

FEDEX$49

What this does and doesn't show

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.
Some payments name no company: the city files them under "GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR" or a bare asterisk — $617,266,200 across FY2018–FY2026, about 1.2% of all payments. Much of that is properly private, like legal settlements and housing assistance paid to individuals. Those payments aren't listed as vendors here because there's no vendor to list.
A department total here is what moved through that department's books, not its budget. Funds it administers on someone else's behalf are included.

From the City of Houston's published checkbook ↗.