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Buried on consent

A consent agenda passes as one vote, with no discussion unless a member pulls an item off it. These are the largest dollar items that went onto consent in the last 90 days, with the figure as the agenda states it.

Government	Meetings read	Items	On consent	$1M+ on consent	Dollars stated on consent	Meetings with a closed session
League City City Council	9	481	68 (14%)	9	$54.3M	9
City of Missouri City	4	36	15 (42%)	3	$5.6M	2
Crosby ISD Board of Trustees	6	264	63 (24%)	1	$4.4M	4
City of Jersey Village	8	290	34 (12%)	0	$3.2M	1
Houston ISD Board of Managers	7	415	57 (14%)	3	$3M	7
City of Baytown	3	76	41 (54%)	1	$2.3M	2
Galena Park ISD Board of Trustees	6	69	8 (12%)	1	$2.2M	6
Lone Star College Board of Trustees	3	104	11 (11%)	0	$875K	3
City of Pearland	8	69	30 (43%)	0	$870.8K	0
City of Waller	6	129	30 (23%)	0	$327.5K	4
Stafford MSD Board of Trustees	6	149	12 (8%)	0	$200K	3
Tomball ISD Board of Trustees	9	71	14 (20%)	0	$122.4K	8
City of Bunker Hill Village	3	74	23 (31%)	0	$115.4K	0
Pasadena ISD Board of Trustees	5	262	27 (10%)	0	$20K	4
Goose Creek CISD Board of Trustees	6	190	12 (6%)	0		5
Sheldon ISD Board of Trustees	6	279	11 (4%)	0		5
Clear Creek ISD Board of Trustees	6	252	102 (40%)	0		5
New Caney ISD Board of Trustees	2	37	14 (38%)	0		2
Cy-Fair ISD Board of Trustees	6	211	68 (32%)	0		6
Waller ISD Board of Trustees	5	142	20 (14%)	0		4
La Porte ISD Board of Trustees	4	207	102 (49%)	0		3
Alief ISD Board of Trustees	6	239	64 (27%)	0		6
Channelview ISD Board of Trustees	6	200	0 (0%)	0		5
Spring Branch ISD Board of Trustees	7	299	54 (18%)	0		3
Klein ISD Board of Trustees	7	58	5 (9%)	0		7
City of Bellaire	3	31	0 (0%)	0		0
Dayton ISD Board of Trustees	2	12	0 (0%)	0		2
City of Deer Park	3	25	0 (0%)	0		0
Deer Park ISD Board of Trustees	4	78	0 (0%)	0		2
City of El Lago	2	71	9 (13%)	0		0
City of Friendswood	1	20	13 (65%)	0		0
City of Galena Park	7	76	0 (0%)	0		0
Harris County Commissioners Court	8	3092	0 (0%)	0		8
Harris Health System Board of Trustees	1	24	0 (0%)	0		1
Houston Community College Board of Trustees	3	125	0 (0%)	0		1
Harris County Department of Education Board	2	23	0 (0%)	0		0
City of Hedwig Village	1	13	0 (0%)	0		0
Houston City Council	5	32	0 (0%)	0		0
Huffman ISD Board of Trustees	1	22	3 (14%)	0		1
City of Humble	5	112	14 (13%)	0		0
Humble ISD Board of Trustees	4	38	0 (0%)	0		1
City of Katy	6	99	3 (3%)	0		0
Katy ISD Board of Trustees	9	40	0 (0%)	0		0
City of La Porte	16	102	0 (0%)	0		0
METRO Board of Directors	1	24	5 (21%)	0		0
City of Morgan's Point	3	34	0 (0%)	0		3
City of Nassau Bay	10	210	0 (0%)	0		1
City of Pasadena	6	66	0 (0%)	0		3
Pearland ISD Board of Trustees	1	18	0 (0%)	0		0
Port Houston Commission	3	41	0 (0%)	0		1
City of Seabrook	2	42	5 (12%)	0		2
City of South Houston	2	28	0 (0%)	0		1
City of Southside Place	2	29	0 (0%)	0		1
City of Spring Valley Village	3	34	1 (3%)	0		1
City of Stafford	3	63	0 (0%)	0		0
City of Tomball	17	258	0 (0%)	0		5
City of Webster	15	216	1 (0%)	0		12
City of West University Place	8	180	0 (0%)	0		2

"On consent" counts only agendas that label a consent section, and Legistar items the clerk flagged as consent. A body whose agenda has no consent section shows zero.

Waller$255.9K
Approval of EDC incentive payout to B lack G old Land Holdings in the amount of $255,929.08.Aug 17, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $255,929.08
Waller$29.6K
Approval of a three - year contract with Blumira for CJIS compliance software, in the amount of $29,581.20 .Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $29,581.20
Waller$11K
Approval of EDC annual program renewal with Placer.ai for location analytics software in the amount of $11,000.00.Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $11,000.00
Waller$10K
Approval of EDC annual program with Flyerview in the amount of $10,000.00 .Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $10,000.00
Waller$10K
Approval of EDC annual program renewal with Zac Tax for sales tax and property tax data services in total amount of $10,000.00.Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $10,000.00
Waller$6K
Approval of EDC annual program renewal with HdL Companies for revenue tax software and services in the amount of $6,000.00.Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $6,000.00
Waller$5K
Approval of EDC annual program renewal with CivicPlus for web hosting services in the amount of $5,000.00.Sep 21, 2026 · consent agenda · figure as written: $5,000.00

Closed sessions

Texas lets a body meet in private only for the reasons listed in the Open Meetings Act (Government Code 551.071–.089). Each closed-session item below is shown with the reason its agenda cites.

Records fights

When a government wants to keep a requested record secret, Texas law makes it ask the Attorney General. Each ruling below was addressed to a Houston-area body. The site reads every ruling the Attorney General posts, in number order.

City of Houston 256 rulings, 194 let it withhold Harris County 206 rulings, 114 let it withhold Houston ISD 29 rulings, 15 let it withhold City of Pasadena 20 rulings, 3 let it withhold Katy ISD 15 rulings, 7 let it withhold City of Missouri City 11 rulings, 7 let it withhold Harris Central Appraisal District 8 rulings, 0 let it withhold Cypress-Fairbanks ISD 6 rulings, 6 let it withhold City of Pearland 6 rulings, 5 let it withhold Humble ISD 5 rulings, 5 let it withhold City of Baytown 5 rulings, 2 let it withhold City of Stafford 4 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Humble 4 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Friendswood 4 rulings, 3 let it withhold Spring ISD 3 rulings, 1 let it withhold City of Seabrook 3 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of La Porte 3 rulings, 0 let it withhold Port Houston 2 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Waller 2 rulings, 0 let it withhold Tomball ISD 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold Spring Branch ISD 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold Pasadena ISD 1 rulings, 1 let it withhold Galena Park ISD 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Tomball 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Galena Park 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold City of Bellaire 1 rulings, 1 let it withhold Alief ISD 1 rulings, 0 let it withhold

City of Wallerordered released
OR2026-9920Mar 11, 2026
City of Wallersee ruling
OR2026-2465: asked for all information related to investigations involving a named individual made during a specified time periodJan 26, 2026
City of Wallersee ruling
OR2026-870: asked for recordings
City of Wallerpartly withheld
OR2026-5581
City of Wallersee ruling
OR2026-9131: asked for information

Meeting transcripts

City Council and Commissioners Court meetings, as text, from the meeting video's own transcript. Search every word said at the microphone.

Harris County Commissioners Court: 75 meetings on file, newest date not stated
Houston City Council: 10 meetings on file, newest Oct 20, 2026

Card and travel spending

Payments in the City of Houston checkbook whose purchasing type or account says they were card purchases, and payments charged to travel accounts (airfare, lodging, per diem, mileage, conferences), added up by department and by payee. The checkbook doesn't name the employee who used a card.

Card purchases (FY2027)

Department	Total	Payments
Finance	$4.1M	2

Paid to	Total	Payments
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK NATIONAL	$4.1M	2

Travel (FY2027)

Department	Total	Payments
Houston Police Department-HPD	$29.1K	16
Mayor's Office	$24.5K	6
Houston Airport System (HAS)	$14.1K	3
Houston Health Department	$13K	57
Houston Public Works - HPW	$2.9K	3
Business Opportunity	$390	3
Municipal Courts Department	$55	2

Paid to	Total	Payments
*	$20K	59
TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY	$16.3K	2
LivingWorks Education USA INC	$12K	1
IFMA	$7.1K	1
GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT SERVICES	$6.8K	1
HARRIS COUNTY	$4.6K	1
ASCE - AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL	$2.9K	3
Kyle A Ramon	$2.3K	2
GENERAL ONE-TIME VENDOR	$2.1K	5
NATALIA CONTRERAS RIFFO	$2K	1
MEDSERV INC	$1.7K	1
LINDSEY TIZZARD	$1.4K	1

What the auditors found

The City Controller's fuel card audit found 1,286 city fuel cards that bought $11.8 million in fuel; 12,560 purchases were made at gas stations within three miles of a city fuel island; 91% of monthly card statements weren't reviewed; $557,000 went to premium fuel; 8 of 20 controls tested worked. City Controller, fuel card audit 2026-03
The Harris County Auditor's purchase card audit (Jan. 7, 2025) tested 168 cards: 60% of transactions weren't reviewed within the required 5 days, reviews took 41 days on average, a spending-limit control was turned off, and $3,425 in sales tax was paid that the county doesn't owe. Harris County Auditor, Purchase Card Processes
The city's outside efficiency study flagged purchase cards used outside the city's own rules. City of Houston Efficiency Study, final report, p. 7

Source: City of Houston checkbook file.

Personal financial statements

Personal financial statements list an official's jobs, stocks, land, loans and gifts. None of the offices that collect them for Houston-area officials publish them online as files the site can read, so this is where each one is and how to get a copy.

Who	Where it is	How to get it
Mayor and City Council	Filed with the City Secretary each year under the city's ethics ordinance. Not posted online; the City Legal Department's 2025 ethics briefing describes filing, not publication. City Legal Department ethics presentation, Aug. 21, 2025	Ask the City Secretary, or file a public information request with the city.
County Judge, commissioners and other county officers	Filed with the County Clerk. The Clerk's archive of personal financial reports sits behind a sign-in. Harris County Clerk, personal finance reports	Search the Clerk's archive, or ask the County Clerk's office.
County vendors and officers: conflicts of interest	Conflict of interest questionnaires (CIQ) and disclosure statements are public and searchable at the County Clerk. Harris County Clerk, conflict of interest filings	Search by name.
State officers, legislators and judges	Filed with the Texas Ethics Commission. The Commission does not post them; they're released on request under the Public Information Act. Texas Ethics Commission, personal financial statements	Request a copy from the Texas Ethics Commission.

Revolving door

People who held a Houston City Council seat, the mayor's office, the county judge's office or a Commissioners Court seat (from Wikidata, the free database behind Wikipedia), checked against the Texas Ethics Commission's list of registered lobbyists and the City of Houston's checkbook payees. These are name matches: the same first and last name in both records. Two different people can share a name; check the linked record before treating a match as the same person. Wikidata's list of past council members is incomplete, so a missing name means only that it isn't in both lists.

No name matches yet (22 office-holder records from Wikidata (5 positions); 19773 lobbyist-client registrations (Texas Ethics Commission)).

Local lobbyists: Harris County keeps its own lobbyist registry. Harris County Clerk lobbyist search

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Harris County Commissioners Court: Adrian Garcia Lesley Briones Lina Hidalgo Rodney Ellis Tom S. Ramsey, P.E.

Houston City Council: Carter Jackson Pollard Salinas Thomas

Houston ISD Board of Managers: Angela Lemond Flowers Edgar Colón Janette Garza Lindner Karen Duffy Lauren Gore Marcos Rosales Marty Goossen Paula Mendoza Ric Campo

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