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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
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
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
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 Levy Presentation
Jul 22, 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
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 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
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
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
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 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 FY 2022-2023
Your municipal parcel tax of about 0.45 percent stays the same this year, generating roughly $30 million annually to pay for city employee pensions—without this, the city would have to cut other essential services like streets, water, and safety.
Jun 14, 2022
Municipal Tax Rate Ordinance for Fiscal Year 2022-2023
This ordinance directly determines your local tax rate and how much you'll contribute to city services, schools, and infrastructure.
Jun 14, 2022
Adopt ordinance levying municipal tax rate for fiscal year 2021-2022
Your property tax dollars support the city's commitment to CalPERS retirement benefits for municipal employees — this stable tax rate ensures pension obligations are funded and prevents the General Fund from being drained, protecting funds for services like street repairs, parks, and public safety.
Sep 7, 2021
Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2021-2022
The city is setting its municipal tax rate for the next fiscal year, which will affect the taxes you pay to the city.
Sep 7, 2021
Ordinance Levying Municipal Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2021-2022
This ordinance sets the City's property tax rate for the coming year, which affects the tax bills you and other property owners in Compton pay to fund city services.
Sep 7, 2021
Municipal Tax Rate Levy for Fiscal Year 2020-2021
Your parcel tax will remain stable at the same rate, ensuring your city's retirement fund obligations are met without burdening other city services that affect your streets, parks, and emergency response.
Aug 3, 2020
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).