← All vendorsCity spendingHouston Emergency Center (HEC)
The city's published checkbook records $4,218,867 paid out under this department across 1,461 payment lines and 68 named vendors, FY2018–FY2027.
Department name as the city's finance system records it. The city's budget year runs July 1 to June 30, so FY2027 means July 2026 through June 2027.
By fiscal year
FY2018$392,327
FY2019$233,280
FY2020$400,802
FY2021$645,210
FY2022$306,269
FY2023$485,921
FY2024$683,229
FY2025$576,253
FY2026$409,803
FY2027$85,773
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 (25 of 68)
$1,119,526
$647,702
$516,594
$206,513
$190,849
$157,814
$152,400
$151,744
$146,464
$96,500
$94,052
$70,069
$59,554
$56,403
$41,433
$37,825
$35,789
$35,520
$35,284
$25,000
$21,822
$17,669
$17,660
$16,500
$14,950
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 — $683,428,414 across FY2018–FY2027, 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 .