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Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026-2027

This annual tax on your property helps fund city employee retirement benefits through CalPERS — without it, the City's General Fund would have to cover the cost, potentially cutting services you rely on like road maintenance and fire response.

Jul 14, 2026

Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026-2027

This ordinance sets the tax rate Compton property owners will pay in the coming fiscal year, directly affecting your property tax bill.

Jul 14, 2026

Municipal Tax Rate Levy Presentation

Jul 22, 2025

PowerPoint Presentation: Municipal Tax Rate Levying

Jul 22, 2025

Ordinance: Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2025-2026

This sets your city's tax rate, which affects how much you pay in local taxes and what services and infrastructure improvements your tax dollars support.

Jul 22, 2025

Municipal Tax Rate Ordinance FY 2025-2026

This sets your property tax rate for the coming year — it directly affects how much you pay in local taxes on your property.

Jul 22, 2025

Municipal Tax Rate Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2025-2026

Your city taxes for the next fiscal year will be determined by this ordinance, affecting your household budget and city services.

Jul 15, 2025

Ordinance Setting Municipal Tax Rate for FY 2025-26

This tax on your property helps fund retirement benefits for city employees and generates approximately $35 million annually — it stays at the same rate as last year.

Jul 15, 2025

Purchase Order for Municipal Tax and Audit Consulting Services

These audit services recovered approximately $192,000 in unpaid taxes owed to your city, bringing in revenue that supports city services without raising your taxes.

Jan 14, 2025

Authorize Purchase Order to HDL for Professional Municipal Tax and Audit Consulting Services

Jan 14, 2025

Municipal Tax and Audit Consultant Services Contract

Nov 6, 2024

HDL Companies Municipal Tax Services Contract

This contract ensures the city properly collects taxes on utilities, sales, and businesses to fund essential services like police, fire, and street maintenance.

Nov 6, 2024

Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

This tax on your property generates approximately $35.2 million annually to pay for city employee retirement costs — without it, these costs would come from the general fund, reducing money available for other city services.

Jul 23, 2024

Ordinance: Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2024-2025

This ordinance sets the tax rate for the city, which directly affects how much you pay in municipal taxes and fees.

Jul 23, 2024

Purchase Order HDL Past Due Invoices Professional Municipal Services

Nov 21, 2023

Purchase Order for HDL Professional Tax and Audit Consulting Services

Nov 21, 2023

Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2023-2024

Your property tax will include a parcel tax of 0.451632 percent that funds retirement benefits for city employees; this rate stays the same as last year.

Jun 27, 2023

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

Municipal Tax Rate Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2023-2024

Your property taxes and municipal tax obligations for the next fiscal year will be determined by this ordinance.

Jun 20, 2023

Municipal Tax Rate Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 First Reading

This parcel tax directly funds your city employees' retirement plan. Without this tax, the city's general fund would have to cover these costs, reducing money available for other city programs and services that affect your daily life like trash collection, street maintenance, and public safety.

Jun 20, 2023

Municipal tax and audit consulting services that resulted in revenue recoveries

Professional municipal tax and audit consulting services

First year services cost for HDL Companies municipal tax services

Three-year professional services contract for municipal tax and audit services

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).

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.