Tuesday, December 17, 2024

The council's largest approved expenditure was $290,095 to Everfence Corporation for fencing services on successor agency-owned parcels, approved 4-0 with Bowers absent in the regular session and then ratified again 4-0 in the successor agency session held the same evening; Everfence appears in two separate line items in the structured agenda, flagging a combined total of $580,190 for a single contract scope. The council also approved $192,000 to City Fabrick for a vacant-lot planning services agreement funded by Measure A, 4-0 with Bowers absent, with City Fabrick likewise flagged across two agenda line items totaling $384,000. The consent agenda passed 5-0, bundling a fraud hotline services agreement with Light-House Services LLC split across three line items — a $15,500 contract, a $3,500 expenditure, and a $3,000 recurring expenditure — totaling $22,000, along with a $36,393 recurring storm water permit fee to the State Water Resources Control Board; a $50,000 revenue audit contract with Eadie and Payne LLP was pulled from consent and approved separately, 5-0. A proposed three-year lease of city-owned property at 920 N. Alameda Street to the Compton Entertainment Chamber of Commerce died for lack of a second after three members of the public spoke against it.