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Base contract amount for replacement of the BAC cooling tower at City Hall, including equipment, labor, permits, and temporary cooling tower rental.

Dollar value of donated playground equipment from KaBOOM! for Ellerman Park

City contribution toward construction equipment costs for KaBOOM! playground installation at Ellerman Park

Purchase order with Roadline Products, Inc. for pavement marking equipment and materials, not to exceed this amount.

Small business grant awarded to Ellis Aquatics to pay outstanding invoices, bulk inventory, and purchase equipment.

Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) award to fund Flock Camera license plate readers and related public safety equipment.

3-year uniform rental and safety equipment services for Water Department

Total cost for 50 Taser-10 devices with training and equipment over 60 months

Machinery and equipment for grant administration

Office furniture, equipment and customer service counter installation

Purchase of office furniture, office equipment and installation of customer service counter

3-year service agreement for uniform rental, safety and personal protective equipment

Total 3-year uniform rental, safety and personal protective equipment contract

3-year service agreement for uniform rental, safety and personal protective equipment

3-year contract for uniform rental, safety, and personal protective equipment

Not to exceed amount for equipment and supplies procurement

Dec 23, 2025

city council

The council's largest spending approval was $884,333 to Greenfields Outdoor Fitness Inc. for Greenleaf Parkway outdoor fitness equipment, passed 5-0; the city manager noted the contract contained a copy-paste error naming Fig & Oleander Park instead of Greenleaf Parkway and stated staff would correct it before signing. Three additional action items passed 5-0: $243,663 to Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for Fig & Oleander Park playground work; $214,977 to End Point Wireless Inc. for security cameras at five parks; and $173,431 to JMC2 Engineering + Surveying for a second amendment to an engineering services agreement at the Alameda–State Route 91 corridor. On consent (5-0, no item-level discussion), the council approved $210,208 to WestNet, Inc. for a fire alerting system and $70,000 (recurring) to Waxie Enterprises for equipment and supplies; pulled from consent for separate 5-0 votes were $250,000 (recurring) to Oppenheimer Investigations Group, Norman A. Traub & Associates, and Jackson Lewis P.C. for investigation and legal services — the city manager stated existing vendors were over capacity — and $86,420 (recurring) to ESRI plus $46,359 to Versatile for GIS software, with Versatile's amount sitting just below the $50,000 council approval threshold; the State Water Resources Control Board collected $57,543 across two separate consent line items ($36,393 for a stormwater permit fee and $21,150 for a sewer overflow permit fee, both recurring). Approximately twelve members of the public addressed the council during general public comment, with multiple speakers demanding censure of Councilmember Spicer over credit card use currently under active DA investigation, several disputing the terms of the city attorney's departure settlement, and Richland Farms residents requesting postponement of preferential parking enforcement pending production of District 3 records.

Oct 21, 2025

city council

The council's largest spending approvals were a $75,000 maintenance services contract with Haaker Equipment Company and a $60,000 maintenance services contract with Quinn Company, both passed 5-0 on the consent agenda with no council discussion; no members of the public addressed either item, and the structured agenda records each as two matching line items of equal value (a contract and a budget allocation), a pattern flagged as possible split payments. As a separate action item, the council voted 5-0 with no council discussion to approve a GPS monitoring services agreement with Forward Thinking Systems, LLC—an initial purchase order not to exceed $46,531 plus an annual contract of $23,265.60 for up to three years with two one-year extension options; the initial amount sits just below the $50,000 approval threshold and the annual amount sits just below $25,000, both flagged as threshold-adjacent. The council also voted 5-0 to adopt an updated Emergency Operations Plan after an extended exchange in which at least one council member questioned fire department officials and an Area E DMACC coordinator on whether council had ever been provided the document and who constitutes the city's incident management team; fire department officials committed to distributing the plan to all council members. A city engineer's presentation on California's AB 413 daylighting parking law was informational only; the $90 figure associated with that item is a parking citation fee representing potential city revenue, not an approved expenditure. Approximately eleven residents addressed the council during public comment on topics including parking enforcement, charter compliance, and a request to investigate a city commissioner, but no speakers addressed the vendor contracts on either the consent agenda or the regular agenda.

Oct 14, 2025

city council

The council's two largest direct expenditures, both approved 5-0, were $233,589 drawn from the Equipment Rental Fund balance to pay outstanding invoices owed to Toyota Material Handling Solutions, Quinn Co., and Carson Trailer Inc. — the use of fund balance to cover past-due bills signals invoices that accumulated unpaid — and $100,000 to Roadline Products, Inc. for pavement marking equipment, a round-number figure at a common purchase-order approval threshold. All consent items passed 5-0 without discussion, including a $25,000 purchase from HASA Inc. for pool chemicals and a recurring $8,459 contract renewal with ESI Employee Assistance Group. The council approved 5-0 a budget amendment accepting $1,988,847 in federal HUD HOME-ARP grant funds and scheduled a public hearing for November 18, 2025 on reallocation of CDBG and HOME funds; both are federal grant actions, not city general fund spending. The evening's largest dollar figure was an informational presentation by Matrix Consulting Group on fire department overtime costs — no spending was approved on that item, and council direction on next steps was not taken.

Sep 2, 2025

city council

The council's largest approved spending commitments were a $9.69M street rehabilitation contract with Palp, Inc. dba Excel Paving funded by MTA Bond Funds (5-0) and a $5.07M citywide road repair contract with Hardy & Harper, Inc. funded across Measure P, Measure M, and Measure R (5-0); Palp, Inc. dba Excel Paving is a flagged repeat vendor appearing in two agenda items totaling $20.34M on this agenda. The council also approved a $2.32M contract amendment with R2Build (dba R2B Engineering) for Tank Farm Reservoir upgrades from the Water Enterprise Fund (5-0), a $1.08M annual supply contract with Ferguson Waterworks (5-0), a $100,000 purchase order with Roadline Products, Inc. for pavement marking equipment with no council discussion (5-0), a health insurance contribution rate fix directing $2,520 and $2,409 per employee and annuitant respectively to CalPERS (5-0), and a $73,160 JAG grant budget amendment — with the city manager stating primary use will be license-plate-reader cameras — (5-0). Three items were not approved: the FY 2025-26 salary schedule budget amendment — which contains a $96,324 line item sitting just below the $100,000 approval threshold — was tabled at Council Member Duhart's request for more detail; a six-year lease with Fathers and Mothers Who Care covering $175,000 in building renovations at a city-owned property and $2,332 per month in rent was tabled after council members said the staff report lacked cost justification; and a budget amendment to direct approximately $141.82M to CalPERS for pension liability — making CalPERS a repeat vendor across four line items totaling $141.83M on this agenda — was pulled by the city manager, who said he wants to present it at a public workshop first. Nineteen residents addressed the council during public comment, with multiple speakers citing homelessness, a 6.8% property tax reassessment, deteriorating streets and missing street signs, and inconsistent street sweeping; one speaker alleged the city manager has been spending beyond the $50,000 limit set by Resolution 26100 for the past year.

Jul 15, 2025

city council

The council's two spending approvals both went to parks projects funded by Measure A: $340,514 to GameTime C/O Great Western Recreation for playground equipment and basketball court replacement at Tragniew Park (approved 4-0, Bowers absent), and $277,961 to Greenfields Outdoor Fitness Inc. for fitness equipment replacement at Wilson Park (approved 4-0, Bowers absent), with no public comment directed at either contract. The structured agenda data flags both as repeat vendors — Greenfields appears across seven line items totaling approximately $1.39M and GameTime across four line items totaling approximately $1.02M — and each contract carries a roughly 10% contingency allocation split from the base award amount. The municipal tax rate ordinance (Item 3), which concerns $35M in projected recurring revenue and is not a spending decision, was pulled from consent and deferred to September so the city manager can present it alongside the tax assessor for additional explanation on the pension tax component. Two Public Works sewer plan items (Items 4 and 5) were tabled by consensus to the next meeting after Councilwoman Darden stated she had not had sufficient time to review the 86-page document; the only other consent item approved was the minutes from May 6, 2025 (4-0, Bowers absent).

Jun 10, 2025

city council

The largest spending approvals at the June 10, 2025 Compton City Council meeting were a $578,658 heavy equipment purchase from the Measure P Fund — split among five vendors: Sonsray Machinery ($168,981), Quinn Company ($158,560), New Holland Scott Equipment ($121,657), Carson Trailer Inc. ($85,968), and Toyota Material Handling Solutions ($43,492) — and a recurring contract of up to $198,000 with InfoSend, Inc. for water billing data processing and mailing; both passed 5-0 on the consent agenda without discussion. The council voted 5-0 to award Online Solutions, LLC a three-year, $283,500 cloud computing software contract, with an additional $94,500 annual budget allocation that sits just below the $100,000 standalone approval threshold — a pattern flagged as threshold-adjacent — after a brief exchange in which staff confirmed the contract runs July 2025 through June 2028. The council also voted 5-0 to lease city-owned property at 700 North Bullis Road to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) for $39,139 annually; this is revenue flowing to the city, not an expenditure, and no new city spending was approved under this item. Twelve members of the public addressed the council during general comment, the majority speaking about federal immigration enforcement activity in and around Compton; no speakers addressed any of the spending items on the agenda.

May 13, 2025

city council

The council's sole spending action was a unanimous 5-0 vote approving Formation of Underground Utility District No. 1, authorizing underground installation of utility lines along Muroc Street (Oleander to Acacia) and Acacia Avenue (Muroc to Alondra) near Compton High School, with Southern California Edison serving as both the grant source ($5.67M Rule 20A allocation) and the sole contractor; total project expenditures are listed at $3.3M, broken across line items including $1.32M for mainline trenching and conduit (40%), $495,000 for crossings and vaults (15%), and $330,000 for street restoration (10%), with the public works director stating the project could run up to 84 months. One speaker at the public hearing questioned whether the city charter's requirement for a state-licensed civil engineer had been satisfied and whether affected property owners received legally required advance notice; the public works director stated notifications were sent per municipal code and that licensed engineering firms are consulted for work requiring a PE signature, though the speaker was not satisfied with that response. The budget workshop was an informational item with no spending approved; the city manager stated a recommended balanced budget would be delivered within days, described an approximate $275M all-funds city budget, and noted the annual Los Angeles County Sheriff's contract is approaching $29M — the city manager attributed this trajectory to escalating liability, personnel, and equipment costs built into the county's rate structure. A developer told the council that city delays in processing HUD project-based vouchers are threatening a 75-unit affordable housing project at 1434 West Compton Boulevard, which the developer stated has already received a rare 90-day extension from the state tax credit committee expiring July 11.

Apr 22, 2025

city council

The council's largest single expenditure approval was $360,000 to LNI Custom Manufacturing, Inc. and Forms + Surfaces, Inc. for bus shelters, funded through CDBG FY21 grant dollars, passed 5-0 with no discussion. The council also approved a three-year contract with NEOGOV for HR administrative software at $499,553 total, with $204,701 authorized from the General Fund for year one (5-0); NEOGOV appears across six line items in the structured agenda materials — a flagged pattern — though the entries appear to reflect year-by-year cost breakdowns and data duplications within a single contract rather than independent agreements. Three additional expenditures passed 5-0: $111,713 to P31 Construction for the Heritage House project (CDBG FY18 funds), $30,000 to Alans Lawn and Garden Center for park equipment, and $35,000 to Roadline Products, Inc. for pavement marking materials — the structured agenda carries two separate $35,000 line items for Roadline under that same single agenda item, totaling $70,000, a split-payment pattern flagged in meeting materials. Item 6, a recurring legal services agreement with McIntyre Law Group listed at $440, was pulled by the mayor without a vote; separately, the council approved a subsequent-need resolution 5-0 appointing Aleshire and Winder LLP as special counsel with no total contract amount disclosed publicly, though the firm's managing partner stated hourly rates of $325–$375 for partners. Approximately sixteen residents spoke during public comment, raising concerns about missed trash pickups, the new law firm appointment, the contractor change at Heritage House, and opposition to any sale or redevelopment of the city's golf course.

Apr 8, 2025

city council

The largest spending approvals came through the consent calendar, passed 5-0: $448,508 to Municipal Emergency Services for 112 sets of firefighting personal protective equipment (Item 6), and a Recreation Department budget amendment (Item 8) that appropriates a $35,640 LA Dodgers Foundation grant alongside a separate $27,000 expenditure to a named individual, Harold Johnson, both listed under the same agenda item. Item 13—suspension of fireworks permits—was pulled from the agenda before any vote; Councilmember Spicer stated on the record that Compton voters approved fireworks 57% to 43% through Measure F in 2009 and that a legal opinion is needed before permits can be restricted. Item 10 (board and commission appointments) generated extended council debate but no vote; members agreed to table it and hold a workshop to develop a standardized interview process before making further appointments, with at least one applicant already identified as ineligible for residing outside city limits. All remaining action items passed 5-0 without dissent: removal of a Parks and Recreation board member (Item 9), scheduling a public hearing on an underground utility district (Item 11), scheduling public hearings on lighting/landscape and sewer assessments (Item 12), initiating the assessment levy for Lighting and Landscape District No. 1 (Item 14), initiating sewer service charge assessment proceedings (Item 15), and—in a separate UCDC session convened immediately after adjournment—approving the five-year PHA administrative and 2025 annual plans as the Housing Authority board (5-0).

Apr 1, 2025

city council

The council approved two expenditures totaling approximately $970,000, both drawn from federal CDBG funds from separate fiscal years. A $697,517 contract was awarded to Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for playground equipment replacement at Lueders Park (CDBG FY2022), approved 4-0 with Council Member Spicer absent; no contract document was attached to the agenda item at the time of the vote — the city manager stated the contract would be drafted after council approval — and procurement was routed through SourceWell, a cooperative purchasing consortium, rather than a standalone competitive bid. A $272,305 purchase order was issued to Creative Bus Sales for two gasoline-powered buses for the Dial-A-Ride program, drawn from FY2020 CDBG funds, also approved 4-0 with Spicer absent; the city manager cited the need to expend five-year-old grant funds before they lapsed as the reason gas engines were selected over alternative-fuel vehicles rather than any performance or cost basis. A travel authorization for elected officials to attend a Palm Desert conference April 30–May 1 passed 3-1, with Council Member Duart dissenting and Spicer absent. No members of the public addressed any of the three spending items.

Mar 25, 2025

city council

No new spending was approved at this meeting; both consent-agenda spending items were tabled without a vote. The city manager stated that a $272,305 expenditure to Creative Bus Sales for two Dial-A-Ride buses (FY2020 CDBG funds) and a $697,517 contract to Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for Lueders Park playground equipment replacement (FY2022 CDBG funds) each require a 4/5 council vote, and only three members were present at the dais — no vote tally was recorded on either item because neither came to a vote. One public commenter noted that the Innovative Playgrounds contract amount had been reduced from a figure closer to $700,000, placing the final amount $2,483 below that mark; no explanation for the reduction appears in the agenda materials or transcript. Approximately eleven residents addressed the council during public comment on topics including street conditions, senior Dial-A-Ride bus service, homeless abatement, and a digital signage permit dispute — no council votes were taken on any of those matters. The remainder of the meeting consisted of an informational Women's History Month certificate ceremony with no spending attached.

Feb 11, 2025

city council

The council's largest spending approval was $499,462 to L.N. Curtis & Sons for fire department equipment — engines and a ladder truck — passed 5-0; the amount falls just under $500,000, which is a common competitive bid threshold in California municipal procurement. The council also approved $350,000 to One Yard Inc. for installation of a soccer field and mural at Burrell McDonald Park, passed 5-0; the same company is identified in the structured agenda as the donor of the field, making One Yard Inc. both the contributing party and the construction contractor receiving payment for that same installation. A third expenditure of $28,950 was approved 5-0 for an emergency sewer pump replacement at City Hall by CEVAC Facilities Services, drawn from the Insurance Recovery Fund. Agenda items 7 and 8 — covering removal of officers, council members, boards, and commissions — were pulled by the city manager before any vote, with the city manager citing an error between the staff report and the resolution on item 8. Approximately thirteen residents addressed the council during public comment, raising concerns about water bill assistance programs, immigration enforcement fears, audit contract overruns, property tax burdens, and the scope of the city manager's authority over elected officials.

Jan 21, 2025

city council

The largest spending approval was a $419,883 contract to Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for demolition and full replacement of playground equipment at Cesar Chavez Park, funded through Measure A, passed 5-0; the structured agenda data flags this vendor appearing in two separate line items at $419,883 each within the same agenda item, producing a combined total of $839,766 against a stated contract value of $419,883. Three consent-agenda spending items also passed: $73,160 in Justice Assistance Grant funds (divided into expenditures of $65,844 and $7,316) for approximately two additional surveillance units known as 'lot cops,' pulled for discussion by Councilmember Spicer before passing 5-0 after the city manager described their intended use; $67,500 to Epic Surfaces for basketball court resurfacing, approved 5-0; and $21,150 to the State Water Resources Control Board for the annual sewer system permit fee, approved 5-0. An ordinance creating an Olympics/Tourism Committee passed 5-0 on second reading; a council member noted that any member stipend would require a separate future resolution. No new spending was approved from the city treasurer's second-quarter investment report, an informational item showing a portfolio valued at $244,248,854 and $5,697,112 in interest earnings posted for Q2. Twelve members of the public addressed the council, primarily on non-agenda concerns including neighborhood safety, pothole damage, a long-unresolved water service cutoff, and regional fire ash contamination; one speaker questioned why basketball court resurfacing was proceeding when other parks remain in worse condition.

Jul 16, 2024

city council

The council approved a $1,104,105 contract with Enterprise Automation for a SCADA water system upgrade funded from ARPA, with the vendor appearing across two separate budget-source line items for the same contract, voted 5-0; it also approved a $900,000 contract amendment with Dudek for continued environmental remediation at Fire Station 1 — sole-sourced, with the city manager stating no alternatives exist and the contractor having been on site since 1998 — split $450,000 for FY2023-24 and $450,000 for FY2024-25, also 5-0, with Dudek appearing across 10 line items in the same agenda item totaling $2.70M, including one sub-item of $48,000 sitting just below the $50,000 approval threshold. Two identical purchase orders of $66,509 each to Camino Real Chevrolet for vehicle equipment — flagged as a possible split payment totaling $133,019 — passed 5-0, as did a CDBG-CV federal grant reallocation of approximately $1.67M that included allocations of $92,184 and $47,000 sitting just below the $100,000 and $50,000 approval thresholds, respectively. At least three residents — Rodney Lister, Clarence Tate, and Lynn Bone — addressed Item 8, a municipal code amendment to agenda preparation procedures, before it passed 5-0 on floor-amended language that differed from the backup materials; no members of the public addressed the vehicle purchase, the Dudek contract amendment, or the SCADA contract before those votes.

Jul 9, 2024

city council

The council's largest spending-related approval was a five-year lease with Angels for Sight for city-owned property at 920 North Alameda: the agreement ties $150,000 in tenant improvements by Angels for Sight to city property in exchange for reduced rent during the lease term, with $2,332 monthly payments set to begin after the five-year period per the city manager's floor clarification; the vote was 5-0, and one public speaker (L. Bone) questioned why Angels for Sight would pay minimal rent while bearing renovation costs for city-owned property. Angels for Sight appears across three line items totaling $152,333 — a flagged repeat-vendor pattern. The council also approved a $91,716 purchase order to Alan's Lawn & Garden Center, Inc. for two electric lawn mowers, partially offset by a $30,000 South Coast AQMD grant; that figure sits just below the $100,000 council approval threshold, a flagged pattern; vote was 5-0 with no public comment on the item. The consent agenda — including a $6,419 purchase order to Haaker Equipment Company for sewer truck repairs — passed 5-0 with no discussion. Item 4, an ordinance amending the city's agenda preparation procedure, was pulled by staff before a vote; one public speaker (Rodney Lister) questioned whether the ordinance would restrict other elected officials' ability to place items on the agenda.

Jun 25, 2024

city council

The council's largest approved expenditures at its June 25, 2024 meeting were $600,000 to United Pacific Services for tree trimming using ARPA funds (5-0), $322,839 sole-source to CLA-VAL Company for water control valve repairs from ARPA (5-0), $252,405 to Johnson Controls — a vendor the city manager's office stated the city has used for roughly 17 to 18 years — for City Hall HVAC maintenance drawn from Measure P fund balance (5-0), $167,145 to ChargePoint for fleet charging stations (5-0), $100,000 to The Blue Diamond Company for asphalt materials (5-0), and $84,465 to Carson Chevrolet for a 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for the fire chief (5-0). The council withdrew without a vote the meeting's largest single item — a proposed $1.82 million multi-year agreement with Yunex Traffic for traffic signal and street light maintenance — after members cited service deficiencies and noted only one vendor had responded to the solicitation; a $100,500 investment advisory contract with Chandler Asset Management was also pulled by staff before a vote, and a $763.36 GovConnection computer equipment order was pulled by a council member over invoice calculation discrepancies. Two approved contracts involved split-payment structuring across multiple line items: Govinvest Inc. received $227,056 total for software management services (5-0) and MGT of America Consulting received $48,688 total for Senate Bill 90 consulting (5-0); B-Adair Consulting & Administrative Services was approved on the consent agenda for $24,900 in grant reconciliation services — $100 below the standard $25,000 council approval threshold — as part of a 5-0 consent vote. The FY 2024-2025 budget passed 4-1 with Councilwoman Darden dissenting, fireworks stand permits were approved 4-1 with Mayor Sharif voting no, and approximately 20 residents addressed the council during public comment, raising concerns about fireworks safety, a video shoot that blocked local businesses without advance notice, trash collection reliability, and the recurring selection of the same nonprofit organizations for CDBG grant funding.

May 28, 2024

city council

The largest new spending approval was $373,857 to Vincor Construction, Inc. for facility renovations funded from the Insurance Recovery Fund, with Duhart, Spicer, Darden, and Mayor Sharif voting yes — Bowers's vote was not captured in the transcript; the structured agenda lists Vincor across four line items on the same agenda item, including additional contract figures of $169,239 and $155,854, with total flagged Vincor amounts reaching approximately $1.07 million. The council also approved a $58,000 purchase order to Republic Services for compost and mulch (5-0) — a vendor appearing in two identical $58,000 line items on the same agenda item, totaling $116,000 and flagged as a possible split payment — and a $34,989 purchase order to Quinn Company for an outstanding invoice and maintenance services (5-0), structured across four sub-items summing to $104,967, also flagged as a possible split payment. A $20,026 contract with Mars Environmental for environmental disposal, drawn from the Public Works Street Maintenance Equipment Rental Fund Balance, was pulled from consent by Councilperson Duhart, who noted that fund balance information was absent from the staff report, and then approved 5-0; the city attorney's oral report separately disclosed two previously authorized litigation settlements — $3,975,000 in Leggett v. City of Compton and $1,500 in Rogers v. City of Compton — neither of which was a new spending decision at this meeting. A proposed five-year lease with Angels for Sight was pulled before any vote by the mayor, who cited legal issues that surfaced after the agenda was posted. Six residents addressed the council during public comment, raising concerns about business licensing processes, meeting minutes accuracy, street and tree maintenance, prostitution on Long Beach Boulevard, pothole repair material quality, and vendor oil disposal into storm drains.

Mar 12, 2024

city council

The largest spending approved was $499,462 to L.N. Curtis & Sons for firefighting equipment for four new fire engines and one ladder truck, passed 5-0; the amount sits $538 below a $500,000 threshold, and Councilmember Duhart asked why ARPA funds were not used — the fire chief stated ARPA rules excluded this category of purchase. The council also approved $28,950 to Cevac Facilities Services for emergency sewer pump replacement at City Hall, drawn from the Insurance Recovery Fund, passed 5-0 with a minor clerical date correction; a separate $655,255 item involving Lexington Insurance Company was an insurance recovery receipt — revenue, not a spending approval. A salary range of $60,792–$71,292 was set for the Security Services Supervisor classification as a recurring budget allocation, approved 5-0 with no discussion. Emergency standby council member appointments passed 5-0 for Districts 1 (Patrick Ferguson), 3 (Melanie Franklin Franks), and 4 (Mona Jones); District 2 declined to make an appointment and the mayor deferred hers to the following week. Approximately fourteen members of the public spoke during the comment period on issues including a delayed sheriff welfare check that preceded a resident's death, deteriorating road conditions, and election integrity concerns; the Sister City Seychelles presentation was tabled to the following week.