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California DOJ Tobacco Grant Program and LASD Services Agreement

This grant funds tobacco enforcement to reduce illegal tobacco sales to minors and ensure compliance with tobacco laws in your neighborhood stores and businesses.

Jun 9, 2026

California DOJ Tobacco Grant Acceptance and LASD Enforcement Services Agreement

This grant funds enforcement against illegal tobacco sales — including to minors — in your community, which could reduce youth access to tobacco products at local stores.

Jun 9, 2026

California DOJ Tobacco Grant Budget Amendment

This grant funds enforcement to prevent illegal tobacco sales to minors in your neighborhoods, protecting children's health and ensuring businesses follow the law.

Mar 3, 2026

DOJ Tobacco Grant Budget Amendment for Minor Sales Enforcement

This grant funds enforcement activities to prevent stores from illegally selling tobacco and e-cigarettes to minors in your community.

Jan 13, 2026

California DOJ Tobacco Grant Budget Amendment

This grant funds enforcement efforts to prevent tobacco sales to minors in your community - protecting youth from illegal access to cigarettes and e-cigarettes at local retailers.

Nov 26, 2024

DOJ Tobacco Grant Budget Amendment

This grant funds enforcement efforts to prevent tobacco sales to minors in your community, protecting youth health and helping reduce underage smoking and vaping.

Mar 19, 2024

Amend budget to accept and appropriate DOJ Tobacco Grant funds for enforcement

Your city will enforce tobacco laws more actively to prevent illegal sales to minors, protecting children's health through increased compliance checks and education.

May 18, 2021

California DOJ Tobacco Grant Program funds appropriated to enforce laws against illegal tobacco sales to minors, covering salaries, contract services with LASD, and overtime for code enforcement personnel.

California DOJ Tobacco Grant to enforce tobacco sales laws to minors

Mar 3, 2026

city council

The council's largest spending approvals came through the consent agenda — passed without individual vote tallies verbally recorded — totaling $141,115: $57,000 to UCLA Center for Prehospital Care for paramedic training, $70,560 across two line items to New West Landscaping for weed abatement (a vendor with recurring contract appearances in Compton records dating to at least 2018), and $13,355 to TAJ Trading Corporation for office furniture and counter purchases; a travel authorization totaling $1,253.24 from the General Fund for elected officials to attend the 2026 City Leaders Summit in Sacramento passed separately, 5-0 (Duhart, Spicer, Bowers, Darden, Sharif all yes). A $350,000 California DOJ Tobacco Grant budget amendment — which would have directed $332,668 of those funds to overtime pay for code enforcement inspections, $16,664 to salaries, and $668 to equipment — was tabled after council members questioned why inspection work was structured as overtime rather than regular-duty assignments; the item is scheduled to return the following week. The council discussed but did not vote on special legal counsel, directing the city manager to bring back a formal action item for three finalist firms: Alvarez-Madruga, Sanders and Roberts, and Norseman. Approximately sixteen residents addressed the Richland Farms parking permit ordinance during public comment — the night's dominant topic — with the majority demanding termination of the program and a smaller number expressing support.

Jan 13, 2026

city council

The council's largest spending approval was a $350,000 budget amendment appropriating California DOJ tobacco enforcement grant funds — $332,000 of that amount designated for overtime — passed 4-1 with Bowers dissenting; the council also approved a $220,493 contract amendment with NV5, Inc. for the Wilmington Avenue pedestrian and bicycle project (5-0) and an $82,500 grant administration agreement with Corelink Consulting (5-0, voted in a block with items 10 and 11). Three separate consent-calendar items each totaled exactly $50,000: a purchase order to TV Pro Gear, Inc. for council meeting production equipment (5-0), a purchase order to TAJ Trading Corporation DBA TAJ Office and School Supply for small business workshop supplies (4-0-1, Bowers abstaining, after two public commenters stated the recipient businesses were not identified in the agenda package), and a purchase order to Sherwin-Williams for anti-graffiti paint (5-0, in the block vote) — three contracts at an identical dollar amount spanning different departments and vendors. The meeting also included approval of $54,716 in recurring annual fees to the State Water Resources Control Board and $9,900 in Charter Review Committee stipends (both 5-0), while the March 2025 minutes were tabled due to the packet not being included. Outside of spending, the council voted 5-0 in open session to recruit a city controller following closed session, received and filed Bishop Guillory's resignation from the Public Safety Commission (5-0), denied Commissioner Inez Adkins a six-month leave of absence (5-0), and heard competing presentations from Oliveras Madruga, Nassiman LLP, and Sanders Roberts for special legal counsel services, with no contract awarded at this meeting.