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Mar 17, 2026

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The council's largest spending action was approving Road Repair Project Phase IX, which encompasses a $5.58 million contract with Hardy & Harper, Inc. for construction and six separate line items to Bowman Infrastructure Engineers Ltd. totaling approximately $1.22 million for construction management and inspection services; the council voted specifically on a Bowman contract amendment stated in the resolution as $204,116.70, passing 4-0-1 with one abstention unnamed in the record — Bowman also held a $257,977 construction management contract approved in October 2024 for the same project type, and that identical figure reappears among the current Bowman line items. The council also approved a $98,375 contract with [Selbert Perkins Design](https://selbertperkins.com/) for municipal branding and marketing consulting services, 5-0 after council discussion; the amount falls $1,625 below the $100,000 approval threshold. The full consent agenda — including a $250,000 recurring purchase order with Springbrook Holding Company LLC for utility billing software (a vendor the city has paid continuously since at least 2009, when comparable orders were under $52,000), $182,182 to the LA Gateway Region Integrated Regional Water Management JPA for water quality monitoring, and $63,112 to Advanced Compliance Engineering for fuel pump maintenance — passed 5-0 without discussion. More than fifteen residents addressed the council during public comment on non-spending matters including pothole damage claims, parking enforcement disputes, and code enforcement concerns; no members of the public spoke to any of the spending items on the agenda.

Jan 13, 2026

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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.

Dec 2, 2025

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The council's largest spending approval was a $857,450 contract amendment with Dudek for groundwater remediation at Fire Station 1, passed 5-0 with no public comment on the item; the contract is broken into four sub-components ($505,000; $177,000; $97,500; $77,950), with one line at $97,500 sitting just below the $100,000 approval threshold, and all five Dudek line items across the agenda total approximately $1.71 million. The council also approved, 5-0, a professional services agreement with Agile Occupational Medicine establishing an open purchase order not to exceed $75,000 from the General Fund for occupational medicine services, also with no public comment on the item. The meeting's largest dollar figure — a $301.76 million investment portfolio balance and $3.11 million in first-quarter interest earnings — came from an informational City Treasurer presentation and represents no new spending. Ten members of the public addressed the council during general comment, most raising allegations of city credit card misuse by Councilmember Spicer and at least one other individual; the mayor announced she would call a special meeting that Thursday to address the credit card issue.

Oct 21, 2025

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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 7, 2025

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The council's largest spending approvals came through the consent agenda, where Hardy & Harper, Inc. received payments and contract authorizations across four line items totaling approximately $4.89M for the completed Citywide Road Repair Project Phase VIII, and Fountainhead Consulting Corporation received a new $474,728 construction management contract for Street Rehabilitation Phase 2C — both passed 5-0 with no separate discussion. In action items, the council approved a $2.5M purchase order to the Water Replenishment District of Southern California for groundwater production assessment fees (5-0) and a $300,000 purchase order to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California for imported water (5-0), with water department operations supervisor David Bennett describing both as recurring annual payments; the same two agencies together account for over $2.8M in approvals this meeting. The council also approved $600,000 in fleet gasoline purchase orders split among Jankovich Company, Dion and Sons Inc., and Wood Oil Company (5-0), though Council member Bowers requested a fuel usage breakdown on the record and the city manager stated that information had not yet been compiled due to a leadership transition. Item 11 — a $348,200 contract with BridgeBase Management LLC for the Compton Connect civic technology system — was tabled by staff before any vote was held. Approximately twelve members of the public addressed the council during general comment; one speaker, Fidel Marquez, specifically raised Item 9, noting a fuel accountability log previously requested by the council had not appeared in the agenda packet.

Sep 9, 2025

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The council's largest spending approval was an open purchase order not to exceed $75,000 to Van Dermyden Makus Law Corporation for investigative and legal services, passed 5-0; the city manager stated the firm had already performed services without a contract due to 'logistical errors' and was unable to provide the outstanding prior-year invoice amount when asked — the firm appeared across three separate line items totaling $75,780, a split-payment pattern flagged in the structured agenda. A $70,670 agreement with UCLA Center for Prehospital Care for fire department nurse educator services, split across two line items ($70,560 and $110), was approved 5-0. A General Fund budget amendment passed 4-1 (Darden the sole no vote), allocating three amounts including $96,324 — flagged as sitting just below the $100,000 council approval threshold — along with $85,501 and $4,953; Darden objected to resolution sections placing city attorney-related positions within the mayor and council's budget department. The City Treasurer's fourth quarter investment report, showing $10.74M in interest earnings on a $315.56M portfolio, was received and filed 5-0 and was not a spending approval. Approximately thirteen residents addressed the council during public comment, with several raising fire department paramedic staffing shortages; the fire chief, brought forward by the city manager, disputed the severity of the staffing situation described by Battalion Chief Hernandez.

Sep 2, 2025

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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.

Jun 3, 2025

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The council's only new expenditure was a $5,255 budget amendment authorizing a purchase order with Zumar Industries for road signs and supplies from the Measure P Fund, approved 5-0; the initial motion was withdrawn and re-voted after a council member flagged that the resolution incorrectly cited a temporary $75,000 single-vendor spending authority from a July 2024 measure rather than the standing $25,000 threshold, with the $5,255 amount falling well below either figure. The council also passed 5-0 the second reading of the Construction Labor Disclosure Ordinance, which requires contractors on large city construction projects to disclose prior labor violations; one speaker during the public comment period, representing the Western States Regional Council of Carpenters, addressed this item in support before the vote. The city manager presented the proposed FY 2025-26 budget — $262.3 million across all funds, $75.1 million in the general fund — at a required public hearing, but no budget was adopted; approximately nine members of the public spoke, raising concerns about specific streets absent from the capital improvement plan, the destination of cannabis license revenue, sheriff contract overtime accountability, and the absence of visible youth program spending. A separate AB 2561-required public hearing on the city's 21.6% vacancy rate (87 of 402 budgeted positions unfilled) drew two union representatives from AFSCME and SEIU who described labor contracts expired since June 2024, a $100,000-plus classification study contracted in 2023 that the city manager stated the vendor failed to complete as specified, and an average time-to-hire of 116 days, alongside three members of the public.

May 27, 2025

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The single expenditure approved at the May 27, 2025 Compton City Council meeting was a $27,000 purchase order to Sherwin Williams for anti-graffiti paint, drawn from the Measure P Fund and passed 4-0 with Councilmember Duhart absent throughout the meeting. The council also approved first reading of an ordinance requiring labor violation disclosures from contractors on large construction projects, passed 4-0 (Duhart absent) after the full text reading was waived; three Western States Regional Council of Carpenters representatives spoke in favor before the vote and no members of the public opposed. Three scheduling items were approved without new spending: a public hearing on an AB 2561 vacancy rate review for June 3 (4-0, Duhart absent), a hearing on solid waste delinquencies for collection on the LA County tax roll for June 17 (passed — one public speaker and Councilmember Darton each stated opposition to placing trash bills on the property tax roll, but Darton voted yes after staff clarified the item applies only to multi-family and commercial accounts), and a HUD five-year consolidated plan hearing for June 24 (passed). The meeting also included informational-only presentations on coyote management, the ShotSpotter program (45 activations since going live in March 2025), and a new cellular-based citywide camera system intended to replace a 2007 system that staff stated is 95% inoperable; no spending was approved in connection with any of these presentations.

May 20, 2025

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The council approved six spending items, all on 5-0 votes (Duhart, Spicer, Bowers, Darden, and Mayor Sharif), including $4.20M in annual lighting and landscape district assessments and $913,641 in sewer service charges for FY2025/2026 — both recurring levies collected via the county property tax roll — a $2.73M contract with HASA Inc. for chlorine chemicals structured across four line items ($1.14M, $681,711, $681,711, and $227,237), a $200,000 purchase order for fleet gasoline from Jankovich, SC Fuels and Wood Oil, and a $320,760 contract with Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino Inc. for water sample testing. Three speakers addressed the lighting assessment public hearing and four spoke during the sewer public hearing, with multiple residents questioning whether the recurring $54 annual sewer charge constitutes double-taxation given the city's outstanding 2009 sewer bond; no public comment was taken during the votes on items 11 through 13, though during the general comment period one resident questioned whether the chlorine purchase served pools and another asked what information residents receive from water sample results. Two vendor patterns were flagged: HASA Inc. accounts for all four line items under a single agenda item totaling $2.73M, and Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino Inc. has three of its four payments structured below $100,000 — $80,190, $80,190, and $26,730, summing to $187,110 of the $320,760 total — identified in the structured agenda as a possible split payment. The meeting's largest dollar figure, $300.64M, is the city's investment portfolio balance reported by the city treasurer, not a spending decision; the $2.74M mentioned represents interest earned during the third quarter of FY2025, not an expenditure.

Apr 15, 2025

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The council's largest spending approval was a three-year traffic signal and street light maintenance contract awarded to Yunex LLC at $1.2 million annually, plus a separate $350,000 purchase order covering the current fiscal year's remainder, passed 5-0; Yunex has been the city's sole provider since 2018 and disclosed at the meeting that the city holds 14 loaned signal controller cabinets and that the company submitted unaddressed repair requests to city staff dating to 2021. A three-year groundwater pumping rights lease with the City of Vernon passed 5-0 at $720,000 total, and a citywide illegal dumping contract with Valley Vista Services passed 3-2 — with Duhart and Spicer voting no — at $367,270 annually plus a $122,423 current-year purchase order; a former city attorney addressed the council requesting the contract be awarded instead to Screaming Eagles, a local firm that previously held the work. Both the Yunex and Valley Vista approvals follow a split-payment structure — a recurring annual contract rate paired with a separate current-year purchase order — with Yunex appearing in two line items totaling $1.55 million and Valley Vista in two line items totaling approximately $490,000. The council voted to suspend fireworks permit issuance, passing 4-0 with Spicer abstaining, after approximately six members of the public addressed the item — including a representative of St. James AME Church opposing the suspension on grounds of nonprofit fundraising loss and several residents supporting it on safety grounds. A proposed lease agreement with the Compton Chamber of Commerce — a revenue item under which the city would collect rent — was tabled to the following week without a vote.

Apr 1, 2025

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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 18, 2025

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The council approved a $419,883 construction contract with Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for the Cesar Chavez Playground Improvement Project (CDBG FY2018 funds) as an action item, passed 5-0 after the city clerk noted a correction to account codes in the fiscal impact section; the same meeting's consent agenda, also passed 5-0, included a $46,639 purchase order for touchless bottle filling stations to HD Supply Facilities Maintenance—formerly The Home Depot Pro—from CDBG-CV funds, a figure that sits $10,361 below the $50,000 council approval threshold. The largest dollar item on the agenda was a proposed citywide illegal dumping cleanup contract structured as two separate line items to the same vendor, Valley Vista Services, Inc.—a $367,270 annual service agreement and a $122,423 purchase order for the remainder of fiscal year 2024-2025, totaling $489,693—but no vote was taken and the item was continued to the following week's meeting. At least four members of the public spoke in favor of prior incumbent vendor Screaming Eagles Services, including the company's owner, and Councilmembers Spicer and Darden expressed support for Screaming Eagles on the record; the city manager stated Valley Vista was the lowest responsive bidder at $367,270 annually versus Screaming Eagles' $450,000 bid, a difference of $82,730. A motion by Councilmember Spicer to award the contract to Screaming Eagles, seconded by Councilmember Bowers, was withdrawn before any vote when Bowers requested that both vendors be placed on the following week's agenda for formal consideration.

Jan 14, 2025

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The council's largest spending approval was a recurring $800,000 contract with the City of Downey for fire and emergency medical dispatching services, passed on the consent agenda 4-0 (Darden absent); the same vote covered three recurring regulatory and consulting payments — $53,975 to the State Water Resources Control Board, $34,050 to Price Paige & Company LLP for a CPA contract amendment, and $33,012 to the California Department of Industrial Relations — with one resident, Fidel Marquez, publicly opposing the Price Paige item during public comment. A $416,428 amendment to a construction contract with MDJ Management LLC for security upgrades at 404 N. Alameda passed 4-0 (Darden absent) following a presentation by Director Ward citing scope additions — drainage retention basins, ADA sidewalks, and interior cameras — not anticipated when the project was authorized in June 2023; Ward stated the project is approximately 80% complete. A $28,799 General Fund purchase order to HDL for municipal tax and audit consulting passed 4-0 (Darden absent); both HDL and Price Paige & Company LLP are General Fund consulting vendors approved at the same meeting, and HDL's amount falls just under $30,000. No new spending was approved for the Olympics/Tourism Committee ordinance (first reading only, no vote taken) or the exclusive negotiation agreement with the Wind Project for 21 affordable units at 1716 E. Rosecrans (4-0, Darden absent), though the Wind Project ENA drew multiple public objections in the concurrent successor agency session.

Dec 10, 2024

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The council's largest spending decision was a $2,914,000 contract with R2Build (dba R2B Engineering) for tank farm reservoir upgrades, funded from ARPA dollars the city manager stated must be obligated by December 31, 2026; the vote was 5-0. The council also approved a $215,438 purchase order to Yunex Traffic for outstanding invoices covering traffic signal and street lighting maintenance performed after that vendor's contract expired and before a replacement contract was in place — a pattern one public speaker questioned directly — on a 4-0 vote with Councilman Bowers not appearing in the recorded roll call. Acceptance of the Citywide Road Repair Services VII project, releasing $102,828 in contractor retention to Hardy & Harper, Inc., passed 5-0, and a $14,347 Human Resources budget amendment adding two new positions while eliminating two vacant ones passed 5-0. A first reading of an ordinance creating a new Compton Arts Commission passed 4-1 with Councilman Bowers dissenting; one speaker objected that existing commissions are not fully operational. Twelve members of the public addressed the council, with speakers raising questions about late vendor payments, the scope of the tank farm contract, and the city manager's prior use of a personal credit card to pay a tax lien on city-owned property ahead of a council-approved purchasing card.

Nov 26, 2024

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The council's largest spending approval was a $2,389,600 contract with R2Build (dba R2B Engineering) for a chlorination system upgrade at the Municipal Water Department, passed 4-0 with Spicer absent after water department staff described the existing system as over 20 years old. The council approved a $76,832 final ARPA-funded payment to 72 Hour, LLC DBA National Auto Fleet Group — the same vendor held a prior $221,707 contract for the same fire command vehicle, totaling $298,539 across two line items — because the original purchase order was closed at fiscal year-end without the remaining balance paid, passed 4-0 with Spicer absent. Elevate Public Affairs received a $103,800 contract extension for public relations services (3-1, Bowers dissenting, Spicer absent), with Councilwoman Darden citing uncompleted deliverables including the city newsletter and digital billboard management; the city manager's representative stated the city currently owes Elevate for outstanding invoices and that the contract's 30-day termination clause will be used once a public information officer — currently being recruited — is in place. Geary Floors, Inc. was approved for $36,000 in gymnasium floor repair at Lueders Park split across three line items — a $30,000 contract and a $6,000 budget allocation, both from Measure P Capital Outlay — as part of the consent package passed 4-0 with Spicer absent. A proposed city purchasing card program ($25,000 budget allocation) was pulled from the agenda and will return at a future meeting after at least three of six public speakers specifically criticized it; the FY 2021-2022 audited financial statements were received and filed 4-0 as an informational item — no new spending was approved through that action.

Sep 24, 2024

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The council's largest expenditure approvals were a recurring $5 million payment to the Water Replenishment District of Southern California for groundwater assessment fees (5-0) and a $1.96 million road repair contract to Hardy & Harper, Inc. from Measure P funds (5-0), followed by a recurring $800,000 purchase order to the Metropolitan Water District for imported water (5-0). A $203,944 youth counseling services contract was approved 4-1 with Bowers dissenting — but only after the city manager disclosed on the floor that intended vendor VCH Prosperity Consulting DBA Compton Wellness ($92,600, just below the $100,000 approval threshold) had active state licensing board issues; the council substituted St. John's at the same amount while retaining Nimble Thoughts Counseling at $111,344, with Bowers noting that vendors were not adequately vetted before appearing on the agenda. The council also approved $62,436 split between Safe Life Defense ($24,487, just below the $25,000 approval threshold) and Axon Enterprise ($37,949) for code enforcement vests and tasers (5-0), and $139,980 to Villarruel Architects for Jackie Robinson Stadium renovation using CDBG funds (5-0). Four public speakers asked that Restoration Diversion Services — a human trafficking services nonprofit occupying city-owned space at 206 North Long Beach Boulevard — keep its lease at $1 per year; the council approved a one-year renewal at that rate (5-0), while a second lease item for the same organization and the Sylvia Nunn Angels lease item were both pulled by staff without a vote. The citywide salary schedule amendment was withdrawn before a vote after Councilmember Darden identified errors and a missing prior resolution, and will return at a future meeting.

Sep 3, 2024

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The council's largest approved expenditure was $150,000 split among three recurring fire apparatus vendors — Bit Pros Fire Services, William Kalvikov DBA Fire Apparatus Solutions, and Performance Truck Repair Inc. — passed 4-0 on a consent block (Spicer absent throughout the meeting) that also included a $70,000 recurring purchase order to Waxie Sanitary Supply; a standalone $125,000 recurring purchase order to Life Assist Medical Supplies was approved separately 4-0. A $120,000 fuel purchase order split among Jankovich, SC Fuels, and Wood Oil (item 18, also recurring) was pulled by the city manager before the vote with no reason stated on the record. The council held a public hearing on reallocating $743,175.67 in unspent CDBG funds dating back to 2017 — the city manager stated HUD had physically visited city hall and warned of penalties if the funds were not expended — drawing approximately five public speakers who raised questions about vagueness in the proposed program categories; the hearing closed 4-0, but no separate approval vote on the reallocation itself is documented in the transcript. Two identically-described resolutions — items 16 and 17 — ratifying what is listed as the same AFSCME Local 3947 Article 19 side letter were each approved 4-0 with no council discussion of the duplication.