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Water well and booster pump technical and maintenance services, including outstanding invoices, subsequent invoices, additional scope of work, and unforeseen charges

Water Well and Booster Pump Technical and Maintenance Services including outstanding invoices, subsequent invoices, scope of work changes and unexpected fees

FY24/25 out of scope carryover work

Out-of-scope audit fee for FY 2023

Additional purchase order for Eadie and Payne LLP for out-of-scope audit services

Heavy equipment acquisition for Street Maintenance Department

New Holland Scott Equipment light tower and tractor/loader

Construction agreement for Heritage House Project additional scope of work

Additional scope of work for Heritage House Project including sink hole repair, parking lot overlay, gate painting, entrance keypad relocation and lighting upgrades

Play equipment cost with Sourcewell discount applied

20' Steelworx Hexagon Shelter with discount applied

Invoice for out of scope audit services

Subcontractor COSCO Fire Protection portion

Underwriter's discount for Grigsby & Associates, Inc.

Original issue discount on Series 2009 Bonds

Expansion of scope and additional compensation for NPDES program compliance services

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.

Mar 11, 2025

city council

The council declared its intent to establish an underground utility district with a $5.67M budget allocation to Southern California Edison, approved 5-0 with no discussion, and ratified a contract amendment with MIG Inc. for $462,208 for the General Plan 2045 update — one of five line items paid to MIG Inc. within this single agenda item, cumulatively totaling approximately $2.18M — also approved 5-0 with no discussion. The council authorized a $684,705 contract with Innovative Playgrounds Co., Inc. for Tucker Park playground work, funded through CDBG, CDBG-CV, and Measure A, approved 5-0 with no discussion; Innovative Playgrounds appears in three line items across two related agenda items with a combined line-item total of approximately $1.93M. Notices of completion released $244,441 to Beador Construction Company for the Artesia Boulevard Bridge and $88,971 to Horizons Construction Company International for fire station driveways, both approved 5-0 after Councilmember Darden raised questions about document corrections and unfinished scope items on the bridge project. A public hearing on safe-and-sane fireworks drew approximately twenty-two speakers — the mayor tallied eleven opposed and nine in favor — and closed 5-0 with no spending approved; a separate public hearing on reallocation of approximately $2.7M in unspent CDBG funds from 2018–2022 also closed 5-0, with the city manager stating those funds must be encumbered before a May 2 HUD compliance deadline to avoid loss of the city's annual federal allocation.

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.

Feb 4, 2025

city council

The council's largest approved expenditure was a $945,688 contract with NV5 Inc. for engineering design on the Center Avenue green street and storm drain project, funded by state grants and passed without discussion with Duhart, Spicer, Bowers, and Sharif voting yes and Darton's vote not captured in the transcript. A $225,000 three-year contract with JL Group LLC for fraud investigation services (General Fund) and $170,950 to Envisio Solutions Inc. for performance management software — structured as four sub-$100,000 payments, a flagged possible split-payment pattern — both passed with Duhart, Spicer, Bowers, and Sharif voting yes and Darton not recorded. The item generating the most debate was $149,863 to Eadie and Payne LLC for audit services billed outside the original contract scope, structured as three sub-$100,000 invoices including one ($24,246) just below the $25,000 approval threshold; three public speakers questioned who authorized the additional work, the city controller stated the auditor was conditioning progress on the FY2023 audit report on receipt of payment, and the item passed with Duhart and Sharif voting yes and Spicer abstaining, with Bowers and Darton's votes not recorded. The council also approved $200,000 to recurring vendors including Jankovich for fleet gasoline, with Duhart, Bowers, and Sharif voting yes and Spicer and Darton not recorded, and $30,960 to New West Landscaping for golf course maintenance, with Duhart, Spicer, Bowers, and Sharif voting yes and Darton not recorded.

Jan 14, 2025

city council

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 17, 2024

city council

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.

Dec 10, 2024

city council

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.

Sep 17, 2024

city council

No new spending was approved at this September 17, 2024 meeting. The sole action item was the appointment of Charles Scott as Interim Senior Building Inspector under California Government Code Section 21221(h) — a CalPERS provision governing retired-annuitant rehires — with no compensation figure disclosed in the agenda or transcript; one council member's remarks suggested Scott was already working and that the vote may have been a retroactive correction to bring the arrangement into PERS compliance, citing the 960-hour annual cap as the governing constraint. The appointment passed with Duhart, Spicer, Darden, and Mayor Sharif recorded as yes votes; Bowers' response was not clearly captured in the transcript. The consent agenda — two sets of November 28, 2023 meeting minutes — passed 5-0 with no discussion. Ten members of the public addressed the council on non-agenda matters, raising concerns about illegal dumping across multiple districts, a street-lighting and sanitation contractor's performance, $18,000 a speaker said was previously set aside for holiday decorations and never spent, alleged charter violations tied to a council member's appointment, and deteriorating road conditions.

Sep 10, 2024

city council

The council approved two contracts: $123,597 to St. Nick's Christmas Lighting and Decor for holiday decoration installation and removal (5-0), and $102,932 to BluLynx Solutions LLC for grant administrative services (four council members recorded yes; Bowers's vote is not captured in the transcript). A third item — the appointment of Charles Scott as Interim Senior Building Inspector, structured retroactively to October 2023 — was pulled without a vote after Councilwoman Darden cited a typographic error in the resolution, a missing government code attachment, and insufficient clarification on the retroactive arrangement; Councilman Spicer withdrew his motion before any second was recorded, and the item is scheduled to return the following week. During Item 6 discussion, Councilwoman Darden noted that the three competing bids were approximately double the St. Nick's figure; no members of the public addressed either spending item. The council also voted 5-0 to reschedule the Republic Services performance review hearing to October 10, 2024, and approved three sets of prior meeting minutes on consent (5-0); five members of the public addressed the council during open comment, raising concerns that included a charter-compliance dispute over the District 1 council appointment that the city attorney had found to be in violation, a week-long street lighting outage, and road conditions on Wilmington Avenue.