Lobbying

City of Costa Mesa's latest lobbying report covers Q2 2026, at $20K. The four quarters Q4 2025–Q3 2026 total $60K. Its first report covers Q4 2022; the issues it reports most are Budget/Appropriations and Transportation.

City of Costa Mesa

Latest quarter
No record
Q3 2026 · 0 reports
Last 12 months
$60K
Last 4 quarters
vs last quarter
−100.0%
Q3 2026 against the quarter before
First report
Q4 2022
The first quarter a report named it

Lobbying by quarter

City of Costa Mesa lobbying by quarter
City of Costa Mesa lobbying by quarter
QuarterAmountReports
Q4 2022$19.5K1
Q1 2023$19.5K1
Q2 2023$19.5K1
Q3 2023$19.5K1
Q4 2023$19.5K1
Q1 2024$19.5K1
Q2 2024$19.5K1
Q3 2024$19.5K1
Q4 2024$19.5K1
Q1 2025$19.5K1
Q2 2025$20K1
Q3 2025$20K1
Q4 2025$20K1
Q1 2026$20K1
Q2 2026$20K1
Q3 2026$00

By issue

  • Budget and appropriations$174.8K · 11 reports
  • Transportation$94.3K · 8 reports
  • Homeland security$19.5K · 2 reports
  • Housing$6,500 · 1 reports

An issue's amount splits each report's amount equally over the issues the report lists.

Who was lobbied

  • HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES13 reports
  • SENATE12 reports
  • Transportation, Dept of (DOT)3 reports
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)2 reports

Firms it paid

Firm
Townsend Public Affairs$295K15 quarters

Former officials lobbying for it

No lobbyist with a covered position.

Lobbying reports

Filed by
07/20for Q2Townsend Public Affairs$20K
04/19for Q1Townsend Public Affairs$20K
01/20for Q4 2025Townsend Public Affairs$20K
25/10/20for Q3 2025Townsend Public Affairs$20K
25/07/21for Q2 2025Townsend Public Affairs$20K
25/04/18for Q1 2025Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
25/01/17for Q4 2024Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
24/10/21for Q3 2024Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
24/07/22for Q2 2024Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
24/04/22for Q1 2024Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
24/01/19for Q4 2023Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
23/10/19for Q3 2023Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
23/07/17for Q2 2023Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
23/04/20for Q1 2023Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K
23/01/20for Q4 2022Townsend Public Affairs$19.5K