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Ordinance Establishing Expedited Permitting for EV Charging Stations — Second Reading

This ordinance makes it faster and easier for homeowners and businesses in Compton to install EV charging stations, which could lower your transportation costs if you drive or plan to drive an electric vehicle.

Jun 23, 2026

Ordinance Establishing Expedited Permitting for EV Charging Stations — Second Reading

This ordinance makes it faster and easier to install EV charging stations at homes and businesses in Compton — if you own or are considering an electric vehicle, this could reduce the time and cost to get a charger installed on your property.

Jun 23, 2026

Construction Labor Disclosure Ordinance - Second Reading

This ordinance helps protect construction workers in your neighborhood and ensures contractors with poor labor records face oversight on major projects.

Jun 3, 2025

Ordinance Amending Construction Codes - Labor Violations Disclosure

This ordinance helps ensure that large construction projects in your city follow fair labor practices and that you have information about contractor compliance with labor laws.

Jun 3, 2025

Olympics/Tourism Committee Ordinance - Second Reading

This committee could bring tourism and Olympic-related events to your city, potentially creating jobs and business opportunities in your community.

Jan 21, 2025

Create Olympics/Tourism Committee - second reading

This new committee will help bring tourism and economic opportunities to Compton, potentially creating jobs and attracting visitors and their spending to your city.

Jan 21, 2025

Compton Arts Commission Creation Ordinance Second Reading

Your city will establish an arts commission to support and promote cultural programs and artistic opportunities in Compton.

Dec 17, 2024

Compton Arts Commission Ordinance - Second Reading

This new Arts Commission will promote cultural events and public art projects throughout your community - bringing more arts programming to your neighborhoods.

Dec 17, 2024

Speed Limit Ordinance Amendment - Second Reading

These new speed limits will affect how fast you can drive on major streets like Alameda, Central Avenue, and Long Beach Boulevard — helping improve safety on your neighborhood roads.

Nov 19, 2024

Ordinance Amending Speed Limits in Compton Zones

This ordinance affects the speed limits on your streets, which impacts your safety and the safety of children and pedestrians in your neighborhood.

Nov 19, 2024

Ordinance: Agenda Preparation Procedure Amendment Second Reading

Jul 23, 2024

Vehicle Forfeiture Ordinance for Street Racing - Second Reading

This law allows the city to seize and sell vehicles used in illegal street racing to deter dangerous driving that damages your streets and threatens your safety.

Feb 27, 2024

Ordinance Amending CMC Section 7-27: Vehicle Forfeiture

This ordinance helps protect your safety by allowing the city to remove vehicles used for illegal street racing, takeovers, and reckless driving that endanger Compton residents and disrupt your neighborhoods.

Feb 27, 2024

Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for FY 2023-2024

This tax ordinance directly affects how much you pay in municipal taxes, so understanding the tax rate is important for your household budget planning.

Jun 27, 2023

Amend Master Fee Schedule with Cost-of-Living Adjustment

Your utility fees and city service costs may increase based on inflation adjustments to the city's fee schedule.

May 16, 2023

Ordinance Amending Master Fee Schedule with CPI Increase

If you use city services — park facilities, recreation programs, water service, permits for home repair or business — you will pay higher fees. The 21.30% increase reflects inflation since 2017 and covers the city's rising costs to maintain these services for you.

May 16, 2023

Development Agreement for 60-Unit Housing Project on West Compton Boulevard

This new housing project will create 60 new homes in central Compton near transit, potentially offering more affordable housing options and generating jobs during construction.

Dec 13, 2022

Development Agreement for 60-Unit Housing Project

New housing is being built in Compton, which can bring more homeownership opportunities and help address housing shortage in your community.

Dec 13, 2022

Compton Transit Oriented Development Specific Plan—Second Reading and Adoption

This transit-oriented development plan will revitalize downtown Compton around the Metro A Line, bringing 2,178 new homes (including 734 affordable units for low-income families), retail shops, restaurants, and jobs—making your downtown more walkable and reducing your reliance on cars.

Nov 15, 2022

Adopt Transit Oriented Development Specific Plan and Zone Amendment

This development plan could improve your neighborhood's access to transit, create more walkable areas, and bring new job and housing opportunities near public transportation.

Nov 15, 2022

Jun 3, 2025

city council

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.

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.