Board of Aldermen - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to the March 16th, 2026 regular board of alderman meeting. Would everybody please join with me in saying the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Aman Pfka, here. Awoman Ty, here. Awoman Gold, here. Woman Sims, here. Lock Miller, here. Aman G here. Awoman Harter here. Alderman er here we have a qu for quum.

Thank you. Next on the agenda is approval of or amendment of the agenda. Do we have any changes to the uh to the agenda? Any objection to approving the same by acclamation? Seeing none, it will be so approved. Thank you. Let's move down to item four, announcements, appointments, of which we have none. Next up, a public hearing, which we have none. And let's get down to citizen comments. Now is the time for anybody in the public that would like to address the board. All we ask is that you come to the the podium there, state your name and your address, and you will be given up to three minutes per person. Hello board. So this is I'm Coach Metro. I'm the esports coach over at Brentwood and a resident of Brentwood. These are esports players, our captains and assistant captains for the team. And some other players have come up to uh support the idea of of utilizing any space, not necessarily a space downstairs, but if there's any space like at a teenage or middle uh center over at the new library um to build a uh basically a esports board gaming and maker space for the teenagers, middle schoolers, and high schoolers in the Brentwood area. So, I'm going to click on these as we go. and uh I'm a history teacher during school year. So creating a Brentwood community gaming technology with learning center. This would build a partnership between the Brentwood school district and the public library. And our goals would be to increase student engagement, expand esteem learning, so scientific learning and computer science program and providing structured afterchool programs, strengthening social and community connections. students would have the opportunity to collaborate, use critical thinking, digital literacy, leadership, adaptability, which is a big part of gaming and esports and this gamification of is a way of thinking about real world

problems. Uh the maker space would allow us to do everything from making um uh everything from like they actually made the hoodies at the maker space at the the St. county headquarters using um uh circuit cutters and like designing and they could do three 3D printing for example. Um what does esports look like? It's not just playing video games. It kind of cuts kids out of that isolated world where you sit at home and play video games. These guys have to work as a team and they can get uh scholarships. So I've had players that uh have gotten scholarships to programs like University of Missouri um University of Missouri St. Louis has an esports program. St. Louis University won nationals last year. Lindenwood University, Mville is is a dominant team. Uh and they offer they all offer millions of well not millions but uh they offer many scholarships for our students in the community and Southern Illinois Edwardsville. So you can see esports programs have been offering and there's some pictures from UMSL and Slooh that have offered everything from millions and millions of dollars uh in the United States. Essports is is very quickly growing. This is some of our players doing tournaments with the parents. So it it also goes through uh strategic thinking, team collaboration, leadership, problem solving, digital citizenship, and again adapting over under pressure. We have to learn very quickly and rapidly. Uh there's it's an all year sports program. So unlike football where maybe limited to football season, we have fall, winter, and spring through MOSFET, the Missouri Sports Alliance. And includes we have uh Super Smash captains, Overwatch, Pokemonite, Mario Kart to name a few. And this is them actually at the Fusion 314 center in Florescent which is actually a public space that they utilize in Florisonent. Uh and have had a lot of success and the great leadership. I've actually worked with them um to help build that program and that was built by my former esports team uh McClure North High School. So we've been going up there and using that speed that space for the kids and the parents. Um as a shared community we can include esports competition space. So we

can bring other communities in. Board gaming community like the Fusion 314 has a board gaming area. So families can come in, teenagers, middle schoolers, kids can come and play. A maker space technology would bringing in the other labor or library aspect where the kids could actually have a project or an idea and and complete it. So in in terms of like board gaming for example, they could picture a Dungeons and Dragons, but not only could they create a campaign which includes writing, reading, curriculum, but also they can image create their own characters, build them with like a 3D printer, paint it and interact and then uh we were look talking about possibly a student tutoring center so you can incentivize tutoring and supports through the district to use it. All right. And also a couple things people didn't know is s senior citizens for example about 44 to 50% of American senior citizens actually play esports. They play video gaming. So it shows you that it it goes across all age groups. It's not just for uh middle school or high school.

You just uh hi I'm Tobias Tobias Ruple. I'm the captain of the Super Smash Brothers team. And what we're thinking is if we got the space in the library, as previously mentioned, we could have maker space and also esports. And that would bring in kids who are just at home alone tucked away out to play as a community. And it would bring people from all around Brentwood and even from other places to come and have fun. And also it would give some revenue eventually.

Music to our ears. I'm kidding.

So, uh we could have like a board gaming community space and then like the board gaming uh could help kids and really all people learn like social interaction and interacting with other people. and then um help them think and like uh promote strategic thinking and stuff like that. And then uh promote like family engaging and really like bringing together the community and then some possible events. Uh so we could do uh community board game nights and then like Dungeons and Dragons and strategy tournaments. Uh and it's not really limited to that and stuff. Yeah. So for a maker space technology lab, some potential tools we could use there were some like 3D printers, uh circuit uh circuit design machines, uh digital art ts and then um media and streaming equipment and then like the students and people can uh design, build and create individual uh or group projects. Oh okay. So some academic supports that people would have are like so we believe in learn first and play second and then so students could earn gaming access by completing tutoring sessions uh maintaining academic standards and mentoring like younger students. Uh students may students may also run A+ tutoring hours.

All right. So my name is Quinn. I'm assistant captain for the Smash Bros team, captain for the Pokemonite team. Some benefits for the Brentwood schools in uh include increased student engagement, structured afterchool programs, expanded steam opportunities, leadership development, and collaboration skills. And benefits for the community include family programming, technology education, positive youth engagement, and a safe community gathering space. So, here are the prices for the estimated startup equipment. Like for the gaming equipment, uh 12 gaming PCs would be approximately 7 uh $17,000. Monitors and peripherals $4,000. And Nintendo Switch stations to $150,000. And then for the maker space, we have board games and 3D printers for both $1,000. And then a circuit machine for $400. And then here are the funding opportunities like educational technology grants, library innovation grants, local business sponsorships like microenter and best buy, community found uh foundation funding and more. So here are our expected outcomes in year one goals. We we would like to have or we expect seven uh 75 student participants, 20 plus tutoring sessions, 12 tournaments, six family game nights, and four maker space workshops. And for our long-term vision, we have future opportunities like regional esports tournaments, expanded makerpace programs, cross district competitions, and weekly community gaming events. Uh and for our implementation timeline, we have phase one which is planning and partnerships. Phase two, which is equipment installation, phase three, which is the pilot program launch, and phase four is community programming expansion.

For our next steps after that is explore a partnership with Brentwood Public Library and Fusion 314. Identify uh number two, identify space. Number three, confirm uh confirm equipment and funding. And number four, launch a pilot program in summer steam esports. So I am not a captain like him or these, but I am a player for the esports team. So um

we can what what has been your experience like? Oh, my experience from coming in later is that they welcomed me and that it was a very fun experience and that they really helped me boost my self-esteem with my gaming skills and I've gotten better at games with them and I've like growing with them like in our esports community. So, um, with all of us here, I think that we all would like to grow this community and show the people that we're not just gamers.

Wonderful. So, we want to thank you for your time. I know we went over, but the possibilities are just they really are endless because it could have everything from you could have a tournament for the families or the schools like a high school tournament night, middle school or a Mark Twain or McGrath night. You could have everything from learning digital uh learning with the um uh with everybody from Cit senior citizens the early men early elementary kids could learn things like programming. There's simple programs they could learn and so we wanted to thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Oh, thank thank you. And I I will tell you, normally during public comment, it's not a a question answer session, but I'm going to break that rule just real quickly, just ask a couple of questions. So, you'd be the person to talk to. Oh, well,

Nicholas. Yeah, Nick Metropolis. And I could I could help out in any way. Uh, and secondly, how much square footage space do you think you're talking about? Well, that's a good question. I mean, it's contingent on what what is available from you guys, but yeah, I mean I mean, believe it or not, we could use the the space. I mean, you could break it up. You could have part of the esports center here.

You could put the maker space in the actual library if they needed for equipment m or watching equipment. You could utilize the whole area because this is kind of in the middle of Brentwood. So, everybody kind of moves to the nucleus. And then the idea is to have access for the kids so they can just come to a safe place. Uh like we have the park which is absolutely gorgeous. But you know one of the reasons I think Brentwood has been rated like top 15 places to live in the United States according to Nich Magazine was the fact that everybody knows each other and if you could have this component where the school the community could bridge and then it could be utilized in so many ways from every age group in many different ways it would be like something's never been seen. like Fusion's phenomenal with the board games and the esports

uh in their rec center at the Egan Center, but this could take it to the next level where it's just people would be banging down the doors to come to Brentwood because it's just such a magical place, which it is. I want to thank all the students for taking time out of your schedule to be here tonight. We really do appreciate that. Uh I think it's a very intriguing uh proposal and I'd like to follow up with you um sometime soon to talk more about it. I don't know if anybody on the board has any specific questions about this. Yeah, Alderman Pluff. I just had a comment. What about the former library space that's beneath us? Yeah, that's what they were talking about. Oh, okay. Yep. Yeah. Or we'll go anywhere within the neighborhood. I thought you meant the space across the street.

Uh whatever space is available, I'm sure we'd be happy to to work with. Yeah. Anybody else? Any other questions? Pick 75 out of Bwood School District.

Yeah, I think I think you could definitely across with all the schools involved. Yeah, that would be what it's about 10% of the school district involved. And then also I think what's going to happen and I've seen it working with Fusion because I watched the kids do it at Fusion in Fuller is you're going to have kids and people come from all across St. Louis and that could also increase business uh and people in the area you know traffic and it also it's going to increase the value of homes cuz really when it comes down to the competition aspect of on the pragmatic level if it's I'm going to buy a house in Rockwood but it's a little bit more in Brentwood I'm going Brentwood cuz I mean I can walk and there's just so much stuff for the kids to do and the thing is we want to open this up to all economic you know uh that's one thing that the kids have really talked about we talked about is like economic opportunity so it's not just limited to people could pay. But like to give you an idea, Fusion is I think I pay $60 a month for 50 hours of gameplay for a resident. They give me the residential rate, so it's like a dollar an hour. It's just and it's self-sufficient. You can use the space for renting it out to families outside of the district for birthdays and other thing to help supplement the the pay so we can actually uh support it. But thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. Thanks again. Well, very impressive. Thank you everybody. All right. Anybody else in the in the public care to address the board? Seeing none, we will move on to the I'm sorry. Waiting to make sure we didn't have anyone else in attendance. Okay. I do have uh one online. Okay. Uh Karen Smith. Sure.

Karen, the floor is yours. You're unmuted, but we're not hearing anything yet. Still not hearing anything, Karen.

Nope. Okay, sorry Karen, we we just couldn't hear you. So obviously, you know, there'll be another opportunity later on the meeting meeting if you want to try and uh uh comment at that point in time. So the next up is the mayor and alderman reports. First up is the mayor. I have no report. Alderman Pluff uh just that public safety will meet uh 5:30 in this chamber March 25th. Thank you. Alderwoman Parker Ty. Uh Ways and Means will meet on Thursday, April 2nd at 6 PM in this chamber. Alderwoman go. No report. Uh, Alderman Gould. Yes. Uh, communications committee meeting is tomorrow night at 6 PM right here. Uh, please come by and and jumping all over. Sorry. Alderwoman Sims, no report.

Alderman Lock Mueller. Yeah. Our W three meeting will be held Tuesday, March 31st at 6:30 over in the rec center. Thank you. Alderwoman Harter, no report. And Alderman Urgger, no report. Okay. Thank you. Uh, next up is city administrator report. We have one item.

I have three. Thank you, Mayor Dimmit. Um, I want to share some good news. This is the third year in a row and a lot of the thanks goes to Michelle Dew. We have the auditors Clifton Larson Allen in city hall starting this week and we are on schedule to complete the audit by the required June deadline. The expectation is that the draft will go to Ways and Means in May and then the final report will go to the board for adoption. so we can then transmit that to the state um by the end of June. So just

also we have the general municipal election coming up on April 6th and we have um that side of the day um up for reelection and then we have um Alderman Sully Eager will be stepping off and um we have Mike Meyers also filed um for W four. So, I just wanted election. And then finally, at the public safety comm uh committee, they took on House Bill 1041 that was recently signed by Governor Kho. And what this does, it it temporarily allows establishments that are licensed to sell intoxicating liquor by the drink for on premises consumption to operate extended hours during the 2026 up from June 11th through July 19th. During that period, qualifying businesses may sell, serve, and allow consumption of alcohol beverages from 6:00 to 5 a.m. till the following day unless a municip municipality adopts an ordinance to opt out or modify those hours locally. This was taken up by public safety and the recommendation is no action which would allow those who want to continue to sell alcohol during that time to do so. So, we are presenting this to the board to um allow you to convey to us whether you wish to take this up um or allow no action as has been.

Alderman Pluff, you care to speak to that or not? Uh we did we did talk about it in our committee. Um we heard from our police department that um they were not concerned. Uh first of all, the timing of the games is not going to be all that dramatically different. We're not in wildly different time zones. Time zones are pretty close. Ours are. Um and so we didn't think there would be much um interest uh there that there won't be games going on at 3:00 in the morning. So there won't be much interest in staying open till 3:00 in the morning. So we decided not to um take any action and allow our restaurants as they see fit to

Okay. And I and in your materials you see uh I think our city administrator put together the some responses from some of the cities what they're doing on this. So you can see how how some of them are planning on handling it. But again the the point is if we don't take any action um then they will be permitted to to operate. If if an establishment decides to stay open at 3 or 4 in the minute morning then I guess they can they can do so. But if you want to prohibit that, then we need some action from this this board to opt out of that. I see no action being taken. So, we will move on. Um, great. This brings us down to uh the consent agenda. Do we have any questions about any items on the consent agenda or any requests for move any of the items? If not, the chair would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda.

So moved. Second. Uh, any discussion? Roll call, please. Alman Puffka, Ty, yes. Awoman Gold, yes. Autooman Sims, yes. Alman Lockmiller, yes. Alman G, yes. Awoman Harter, yes. Urgger, yes. Motion pass. Thank you. That drops us down to old business. We have one item and that is bill number 6591. Uh, can we get a second read by title only, please?

Yes. Amended bill 6591, an ordinance amending sections 400.2900,400.2910 and 4003020 of division 8 of chapter 400 of title 4 of the code of ordinances of the city of Brentwood regulating flood hazard controls. Okay. Chairman mo entertain a motion to perfect bill number 6591 into ordinance form. I'll move. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Puffer, yes. Awoman Ty, yes. Aldwoman Gold, yes. Autowoman Sims, yes. Alman Lock Miller, yes. Alman G,

yes. Autooman Harter, yes. Alman Urgger, yes. Motion passes. Bill number 6591 as amended now becomes ordinance number 5219. Thank you. Brings us down to new business. First up is resolution 1580. And who's chief? Yes, sir.

Good evening. Uh we have two items for this evening, but this one is kind of a hold over holdover from last November when Chief Copter was still in place. Background information. So, we do uh third-party non-resident ambulance billing and we also do resident ambulance billing through the uh Missouri GMT program uh mostly dedicated to um those that we transport that are either underinsured or no insurance at all. We contract through EMSC and they charge a percentage off of the top uh depending on the type of insurance that you have. The old program gave us a 15% flat because Medicare now has broken their uh transport types down into two which are um if you have like Blue Cross Blue Shield. So those that have really good insurance and then those that are under a managed care program, managed care organization which would be Medicaid. Um they're now um proposing with the uh draft at your position reducing the initial rate down to 12% for um Blue Cross Blue Shield type insurance and then 9% for the managed care organization. After a brief analysis of about 30 days uh late last year, we believe it's going to be a wash. So they're charging us less for the insured patients, but now they're charging us a little bit more for what they didn't charge previously. So uh although we're still going to be taking in for both, we think it's going to pretty much be an equal wash. So uh the ask is that uh we continue the agreement with the MSMC with the percentages that are noted in the resolution and there's no out-ofpocket cost to the city of Brentwood to participate in this.

Okay. Need a motion to approve resolution 1580. I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? Any questions for the chief? Uh, is voice vote good or do we need roll call? Voice fine. Okay. All those in favor of approving resolution 1580, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed?

Motion carries. Thank you. Thanks, Chief. Next up is resolution 1581. Okay. So, this one is a little bit different. Uh because the Ways and Means Committee meeting was uh cancelled for March. This was going to be presented uh has been initially presented at public safety and they approved it with the making sure that we got the blessing from Ways and Means. Uh essentially, um the biomedical equipment within the city of Brentwood is maintained by the fire department under two contracts. one for the AEDs that are located over at the rec center and then what we have for um power lift CS lifep 35s all of our stuff striker has proposed since our lifep 35s that we purchased two years ago are getting ready to come out of warranty we need a maintenance contract to keep those up and those are the two main um defibrillator EKG 12 and 15 leads that we use on all of our cardiac patients uh essentially what we're asking here is that we bring all of the biomedical equipment owned in the city under one single umbrella contract. Um we have budgeted funds in the fire department for this. Bringing the extra equipment over from uh parks, it'll be about $500 more per year uh for us to do this. Uh the contract that Striker provided is at your position and it's a very detailed offer. the amount of years the cost for each bit of equipment that's there. Um and they are prorating the contract because we have already paid one year under the old system. So essentially the ask for us for this session is under this resolution is to enter the agreement with striker with the updated cost and the addition of the parks equipment under one umbrella contract.

Same thing. We need a motion to approve resolution 1581. So moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Any questions? Hey, roll call, please. A voice votes. Is that good? Yep. Even though we're spending money. Okay. Resolutions can be approved by Okay. A voice. Okay. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Brings us down. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Next up is resolution 1582 presenting on that. Bill Boyer, right?

Public works.

Public works. Yeah. Should be Dan. Uh this item was discussed at public works committee. So Motive is a company similar to what we use now. Uh we have US fleet for both parks, public works and other vehicles. Uh but this in particular is through source well and motive actually provides more things than just GPS coordinates. So, it has vehicle telematics and things like that. Um, as well as other different things that we can use that the current system doesn't have. So, what we'd like to do is we have two trial units that we had tried out for sanitation trucks. We wanted to implement two more. So, a total of four and then we would just replace the four US fleet ones with these four motive. So, what that allows us to do, I know we've had a couple codes pop up with the motive system where it's either a coolant issue or voltage. The mechanic can then query it, use the tablet and see what's going on. Current system doesn't allow us to do that. This system also has all the same features that US fleet does. It does cost a little bit more. So, if you look at the finance, you know, currently the US fleet's about $30 a unit. These would be about 45 for the subscription. So, you're looking at a total per year of right around $2,900 for these four sanitation trucks. So if we want to do that, we can um certainly implement motive and then turn off the US fleet. If it works out well, we'd like to probably use it towards our plow trucks, but this was a first step.

Okay. And Alderman Lock Miller, this came through public works. Yes, it did. Um I just have a quick question with for Dan, though. I think one of the other added um of even though this was more expensive than the current system, you got a camera on the front of the truck, you got a camera on the back, and if there is per se an accident that might happen, I mean, you've got a recorded history of what's

Yes. And this is all recorded to the cloud. So, that's a good point. Uh the current system does not have a forward or rearward camera. It just it's GPS. So, if a turn is made, um every couple seconds it's dropping a breadcrumb on the map. This does all that. Plus, you've got the camera. So if somebody says that their vehicle was damaged, you can both query where that truck was and see if there was any damage with the cloud-based system. Excuse me. It also had, you know, the capability of looking inside the cab at the occupant and the public works committee decided that that was a little bit intrusive. So we decided that front and rear facing is all we really need to get done what we need. That

is correct. Uh we need a motion to approve resolution 1582. So moved. Second. Okay. Who made that? I have to hold mool. Okay. Uh any discussion? I All those in favor of approving resolution 1582, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Brings us down to resolution 1583. Now it's Michelle Boyer.

He just couldn't wait to hear from me. Um so since 2019 St. Louis STL TV um which is the part of the communications division from St. Louis city have been um doing the video production services for us for our meetings towards the end of fiscal year 25. They reached out to let us know that come July when their fiscal year rolls over they will be increasing their price. Um currently we're paying $250 per meeting. they'll be increasing their price to $300 per meeting. Um, this is just they state, you know, ongoing annual pay increases for their uh employees. Um, this is the first increase we've we've had from them since we entered into our initial agreement with them. Um, we've been pleased with their services. So, uh, we would like to continue on with that with working with them.

Need a motion to approve resolution 1583. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Any questions for Michelle K? Yes.

I don't have any uh questions. Although I I will just note um that we did talk about this in the communications committee quite a bit and the and the fact that you know if we went with another s first of all this service is incredibly valuable. I can I can attest that even other municipalities that don't offer this type of a service makes it really hard for citizens to actually stay informed. um because they can't attend the meeting. So they for with this service it's you know anybody can can see uh what we're what we're talking about uh because of the recordings. And then likewise if we decided to go out for an RFQ for for example um likely the the costs would be even higher. Um so I I think they they've done a good job and support this.

Yeah, I couldn't agree more with you, Alderman. I I um uh you know, we talk about transparency, but you all uh through your actions actually live up to that because makes it so easy, as you say, not just to watch it live, but to go back and watch an old meeting. It's easy to find as well. Um so, I think it's a great uh great use of taxpayer dollars. Um all right, any other discussion? Okay. All those in favor of approving resolution 1583, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, Michelle. Brings us down to bill number 6595. Can we get a first read by title only, please?

Bill number 6595, an ordinance approving a permanent easement agreement between the city of Brentwood, Missouri, and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the conveyance of an easement for the Brentwoodbound improvement project.

Thank you, Dan. Uh this item is a housekeeping for the uh what was the Brentwoodbound project right there at the uh pedestrian tunnel. So last year I looked up we passed ordinance number 5194 in August 18th 2025. That one included parcel 7071 72 73A and 81. This uh was overlooked but is part of that same group. So this is parcel 84 which is approximately 8627 Manchester Road. So it's on the um side of the tunnel, the west side of the tunnel on the north side of Manchester Road. So this agreement allows for the sidewalk/trail and and the uh drainage structures. So it's a permanent easement between MDOT and the city. Any questions? You are asking for a second read tonight, correct? Can we get a motion to that effect if you're still in close?

Some moved. Second. Uh, any discussion on the motion for a second read? All those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, can we get a second read of bill number 6595, please? Bill number 6595, an ordinance approving a permanent easement agreement between the city of Brentwood, Missouri, and the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission for the conveyance of an easement for the Brentwoodbound improvement project. Great. Thank you. Uh chair would entertain a motion to perfect bill number 6595 into ordinance form. So moved. Second. Uh any discussion? Roll call, please. Aman Pleska, yes. Autowoman Ty, yes. Autowoman Gold, yes. Awoman Sims, yes. Alman Lock Miller, yes. Alman G,

yes. Awoman Harter, yes. Alman Urgger, yes. Bill number 6595 is hereby passed and now becomes ordinance number 5220. Thank you. brings us down to bill number 6596. Can we get a first read by title only, please? Bill number 6596, an ordinance of the city of Brentwood, Missouri, approving an amendment to an agreement for housing of municipal inmates with St. Louis County, authorizing certain other actions in connection therewith, providing for the effective date of this ordinance, and containing a severability clause.

Thank you, Major. Are you presenting on this? Thank you. St. Louis County notified us earlier this year that they're raising their rates from $50 per DM. This is for housing a prisoner for 24 hours. We're going from $50 to $75. Uh just to give some context. Historically, this started in 1998. At that time, we were paying $30. So, it hasn't gone up excessively since 1998, but it is a 50% increase. Uh our estimate we estimate that we'll be able to absorb this cost under our current budget. Now, do we still house pres prisoners at Richmond Heights?

We do. Is there a cost associated with that? Uh yes, it's the fees are a little different. Uh it's cheaper than Richmond Heights or sorry, it's cheaper than St. Louis County because St. Louis County does give that flat fee. In Richmond Heights, we're paying for basically meals and blankets. Um that's about on average $2,800 a year. Okay. All right. Uh, any questions? And you are asking for a second read on this also tonight? Yes. Okay. Anybody care to make that motion? I'll moved. Second. Okay. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Mr. City attorney, can we get a second read of bill number 6596 by title only, please? Number 6596, an ordinance of the city of Brentwood, Missouri, approving an amendment to an agreement for housing of municipal inmates with St. Louis County, authorizing certain other actions in connection therewith, providing for the effective date of this ordinance and containing a Thank you. Chair would entertain a motion to perfect bill number 6596 in ordinance form. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Alman Lock Mill, I mean, I'm sorry. Alman Puffka, Ty, yes. Alderman Gold, yes.

Awoman Sims, yes. Alman Lockmiller, yes. Aman Gold, yes. Autooman Harter, yes. Alman Urgger, yes. Bill number 6596 is hereby passed and now becomes ordinance number 5221.

Thank you. Uh, that brings us down to the final item under new business and that is bill number 6597. Can we get a first read by title only, please? Bill number 6597, an ordinance authorizing the city of Brentwood, Missouri to issue its taxable industrial revenue bonds Quattro Brentwood Du project series 2026 in the principal amount not to exceed $7,600,000 for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, and improving an industrial development project in the city, approving a plan for the project, and approving the city to enter into certain agreements and take other certain other actions in connection therewith.

Thank you. And you're presenting on this. I see I am. All right. Floor is yours.

Thank you. Um, as as stated in the title, um, the city and Quattro Brentwood D LLC entered into a development agreement, uh, dated September 15, 2025 for the construction of a 12,000 square foot building as a future use as a kinder care uh, learning center. Under the development agreement, the city agreed to issue taxable industrial revenue bonds under chapter 100 to facilitate sales and use tax exemption on the construction materials. It should be noted that there is no tax abatement of property taxes. So this does not impose a financial hardship for the school district or the other taxing authorities. The estimated value of the sales and use tax exemption is about $123,000. This issuance of the bond um will be funded solely by a u lease payments. What what will happen is the property will be leased by from the developer to the city. The city will then in turn have a leasehold interest and thus the property can uh have under the chapter 100 can have the uh the construction materials be exempt. We will lease the property back to the developer. The developer will build the project, run the project. The developer will be the owner of the bonds and the project um the sole source for the payment of the bonds are the lease payments. This is not a general obligation of the uh city on the the bond rating uh creditworthiness or anything of that nature. And lastly, the developer has

asked for a first and second reading and final approval of tonight's meeting. And this is all separate from the whole Kinderare uh the whole approval process on that. This is simply the the request for the exemption on the sales tax. Correct. The the the approval of the building itself will go through a different process and go through PMC. All right. Uh any questions first about that? And if not, you've heard the request for a second. Yep. Make a motion for a second read. Okay. Second. Any discussion? Yes. Alderman Lock Mueller. your microphone on. All right. Thank you. When does the lease terminate? When the bond's paid off or the

the lease terminates when the bonds are paid off. We would anticipate that uh because the developer will be the owner of the bond. Um it could it could occur very promptly after the construction of the project instead of really using as a financing vehicle. Thank you. And yeah, Alderman Alderwoman Ty. So, uh, I have a question about, uh, how we monitor this. Do does do they report to us? Does the city monitor it? Do we have staff that look into this? Does anyone in Michelle's department have any involvement in watching um, how these are paid off?

Is giving me a look like not from her side. Um so so um the the trustee is the one we have a trustee for the bond issuance and they're responsible for ensuring that they are um getting payments to pay off the bonds. But uh what can happen under the bond transaction documents is since the uh the owner of the property will be the tenant and paying the lease payments and will also be owning the bonds. Uh they can effectively pay themselves um and not have the money land here and then land there and then land there and then go back to them. Uh so there's that structure. want to add

I guess we'll wait and see how it's structured. But in working with the parties of Gilmore and Bell and the rest of them, they'll let us know if there's a schedule that's necessary or any of the oversight with it not being a CD or a TDD or a TIFF. Those are the normally ones that would run through my office. But if the certificates end up in the city's name, then there's maybe a debt schedule associated with it. But we'll monitor those. Thank you both. And we just got this motion hang out there. get a vote on the motion then if you've got a question. Well, I've got questions about the the Okay. the why why the second. Yes. So, that that was great. Thank you.

I was following the right procedure and why are they asking for a second reading because typically, you know, just from a procedural stand, we we don't do that all the time and but if there are hardship cases, they can get started because they're they're they're ready to they're ready to go. Okay. Yeah. All right. Hey, any other questions? So again, what's in front of you is the motion for a second read. If you approve of that, all those in favor of approving uh the motion for a second read, please indicate by saying I.

I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Mr. City attorney, can we get a second read of bill number 6597 by title only, please? Bill number 6597, an ordinance authorizing the city of Brentwood, Missouri to issue its taxable industrial revenue bonds Quattro Brentwood DU project series 2026 in a principal amount not to exceed $7,600,000 for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing, and improving an industrial development project in the city, approving a plan for the project, and authorizing the city to enter into certain agreements and take certain other actions in connection there.

Here would entertain a motion to perfect bill number 6597 into ordinance form. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Aman Plefka. Yes. Awoman Ty. Yes. Awoman Gold. Yes. Awoman Sims. Yes. Lock. Alderman Lock. Miller. Yes. Alderman Gold. Yes. Aldwoman Harter, yes. Alderman Er, yes. Bill number 6597 is hereby passed and now becomes ordinance number 52.

Great. Thank you everybody. Uh, that brings us down to citizen comments. Anybody in the public care to address the board. Now is the time to do so. All we ask is that you come to the podium, state your name. You'll be given up to three minutes. Have anybody online? No. Okay. All right. We do have a request to go into closed session following this. Um pursuant to RSO 610.021 021 subsection is it one and 1 2 and 12 and to can so can we get a motion for that and to adjurnn there from so moved second

all right any discussion roll call please woman Ty yes woman gold yes woman Sims yes locker yes gold yes womanarter Otamer er Yes.