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JAG Grant Fund Budget Amendment

These mobile security cameras will be placed around your neighborhood to deter illegal dumping, street takeovers, and other crimes that affect your safety.

Jan 21, 2025

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

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

Approve First Quarter Budget Amendment FY 2021-2022 - Fund Transfers and Corrections

These budget adjustments ensure proper accounting of city finances, fund additional street racing enforcement and prevention efforts to protect your neighborhood safety, and complete critical road repairs on Hardy and Harper roads that affect daily travel in Compton.

May 10, 2022

Ordinance Prohibiting Spectators at Illegal Speed Contests and Street Takeovers

This ordinance protects your streets and neighborhoods from dangerous illegal racing and street takeover events.

Apr 26, 2022

Ordinance Prohibiting Spectators at Illegal Street Racing and Stunting

This ordinance directly affects your safety by deterring dangerous street racing and illegal stunts that have caused deaths, injuries, and blocked roadways in Compton—by discouraging spectators, the law makes these criminal activities less attractive and helps protect you and your family.

Apr 26, 2022

First Quarter Budget Amendment for Fiscal Year 2021-2022

These budget adjustments help maintain efficient city services, particularly adding resources to combat dangerous street racing that affects your neighborhood safety, while keeping the overall budget balanced.

Apr 26, 2022

Ordinance Amending Municipal Code on Street Takeovers and Illegal Spectators

This ordinance targets street takeovers and sideshows that block your streets, endanger pedestrians, and create noise and disruption in your neighborhood—it makes being a spectator at these events a crime to discourage the activity altogether.

Apr 19, 2022

Ordinance Prohibiting Spectators at Illegal Speed Contests

This ordinance will help reduce dangerous street racing and stunting activities in your neighborhoods, making your streets safer.

Apr 19, 2022

Ordinance Prohibiting Spectators at Illegal Speed Contests and Street Takeovers

This ordinance protects your family's safety by cracking down on dangerous illegal street takeovers and sideshows that have blocked roads, caused accidents, and created noise and chaos in Compton neighborhoods—it holds spectators accountable and aims to prevent deaths and injuries on your streets.

Apr 12, 2022

Amend Municipal Code to Prohibit Spectators at Illegal Speed Events

Your streets will be safer as the city cracks down on illegal speed contests and street takeovers that endanger residents and disrupt neighborhoods.

Apr 12, 2022

PowerPoint Presentation on Street Takeovers and Marijuana Dispensaries

This presentation addresses public safety concerns about illegal street racing and drug operations that affect neighborhood safety and quality of life.

Mar 8, 2022

PowerPoint Presentation on Dispensaries and Street Takeovers

This presentation will inform you about public safety issues including illegal dispensaries and street takeovers affecting your neighborhood.

Oct 26, 2021

Power Point Presentation - Dispensaries and Street Takeovers

Oct 26, 2021

Street Takeover Task Force funding for Sheriff's Department

Street Takeover Task Force funding reallocation from Measure P to Sheriff's Department permanent salaries

Sheriff's Department - Street Takeover Task Force operations

Reallocation for Sheriff's Street Takeover Task Force operations

Feb 20, 2024

city council

The council's largest spending approval of the night was an $834,365 recurring contract with Sweeping Corp of America for citywide street sweeping (5-0), the sole respondent to the city's RFP; the city manager stated the city cannot retain equipment operators as the reason for continued outsourcing, and two public speakers questioned why the work is not brought in-house. The council also approved $116,201 to PlanetBids Inc. split into two sub-$100,000 line items — a $72,519 recurring contract and a $43,682 purchase order from the General Fund (5-0) — a flagged split-payment pattern; and $20,610 to IGM Technology Corp (Gravity) under one agenda item, similarly divided into a $14,610 recurring contract and a $6,000 purchase order (5-0), repeating the same split-payment pattern seen with PlanetBids. Additionally, $149,718 from the Insurance Recovery Fund was approved for Priority Heating and Air Conditioning Inc. for HVAC unit replacement at a city facility (5-0), and $75,000 combined was authorized for Tandym Group LLC and Robert Half International Inc. for accounting temporary staffing in the controller's office, with a council member noting the monthly cost approximates what a permanent employee would cost (5-0). A first reading of an ordinance establishing forfeiture of nuisance vehicles used in street takeovers passed 5-0 after council debate on whether the fines were large enough and whether the city has the enforcement capacity to collect them; Item 4 (Security Services Supervisor salary range) was pulled by staff without a vote, and board removal and appointment votes each passed 4-0-1 with Bowers abstaining. Fourteen members of the public addressed the council, with comments concentrated on street sweeping service quality, pothole conditions across multiple districts, and the street takeover ordinance.

Jan 2, 2024

city council

The council's two approved expenditures at the January 2, 2024 regular meeting were $28,700 to Major League Infields, Inc. for Dodgers Dreamfields maintenance at Gonzalez Park — staff described the amount as covering five months of past-due invoices plus two additional months at the vendor's $4,100/month rate — approved 4-0 with Darden absent, and $20,085 to the State Water Resources Control Board for a state-mandated recurring annual waste discharge permit, also approved 4-0 with Darden absent. Item 5, which would have directed $432,689 in ARPA funds to The Garland Company, Inc. for fire station roofing materials structured across three separate line items ($216,344, $188,126, and $28,219 to the same vendor), was pulled by staff before any vote and tabled to a future meeting. Thirteen residents spoke during public comment, the majority addressing street takeovers and the looting of Ruben's Bakery; the city attorney stated a draft street-takeover ordinance is in process but provided no date for when it would return to the council for a vote. On board matters, Louisa McCrary was removed from the Federal Grants Advisory Board (4-0, Darden absent) and Barbara Baker was appointed to that board (4-0, Darden absent); Councilman Bowers's motion to expand the Public Safety Commission by one seat to add a candidate he described as having over 30 years of public safety experience failed for lack of a second, and the related PSC appointment item also failed for lack of a second.