[0:02] All right, I would like to call to order the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners

[0:07] for Broward, Tennessee. I would like to roll call, note that all commissioners are present

[0:13] tonight. We'll have an indication by Commissioner Garras and Pledge of Allegiance by our visiting

[0:20] scouts who you will see on the south side of the room. I think the entire south side

[0:26] of the room. So, Phil, please stand.

[0:35] Before our prayer, we'd like to have a moment of silence for all the families affected by

[0:39] the explosion and devastation in Humphrey County.

[0:50] Dear Holy Father, we come to thee and give thanks for this beautiful weather we've been able to enjoy.

[0:55] We're thankful for this country that we live in and our freedoms.

[0:59] We're especially grateful for this community and the people who live and work here to make this place so amazing.

[1:06] And at this time, Lord, we ask you to bless our amazing first responders to protect them

[1:12] and their families, keep them safe, and bless their families as they are away protecting

[1:16] and serving our residents.

[1:20] And at this time, dear Lord, we ask a special blessing on those families and friends in

[1:25] Humphrey County who were touched and affected by this tragedy this past week.

[1:30] Please bless them, give them strength to manage such heartache and comfort them,

[1:34] help them feel our prayers and help them find peace and the strength to put their lives and

[1:41] community back together and especially those that lost family members help them heal as a

[1:48] community. We ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. All right, if the Scout

[2:17] All right, so if y'all would like to lead us in the pledge, stand face to flag.

[2:25] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

[2:31] it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[2:38] Hey, thank you. And if y'all would like to, we have a microphone right here next to the podium.

[2:43] If y'all would like to introduce yourselves, you can go in whatever order you prefer,

[2:47] but we'd like to hear from all of you.

[2:50] I was going behind you.

[2:52] My name is Trey Glenn and I go to Brentwood High School.

[3:02] Trey, why don't you sit down and everybody just announce your name and then follow into the seats, okay?

[3:07] My name is Sam McMichael and I go to Brentwood Middle.

[3:11] That's him.

[3:12] I'm Coleman Ezel and I go to Brentwood High.

[3:16] My name is Arthur Yunt and I also go to Brentwood High School.

[3:20] I'm August Henderson and I go to Scales Elementary.

[3:23] Sam Street and I go to Brentwood High School.

[3:26] I'm Dallas French and I go to Lipscomb Academy.

[3:29] I'm Liam McMichael and I go to Brentwood High.

[3:32] I'm Andrew Wiggs and I attend Brentwood High School.

[3:36] I'm Andy Glasscock and I go to Brentwood High School.

[3:39] I'm James Huff and I go to Brentwood Middle School.

[3:43] I'm Ben Kaminish and I also go to Brentwood Middle School.

[3:47] I'm Robert Gregory and I go to Brentwood Middle School.

[3:51] I am Ethan Weaver and I also go to Brentwood Middle School.

[3:54] I'm Dalton Flippen and I also go to Brentwood Middle School.

[3:58] I'm Emmett Stevenson and I go to Scales Elementary.

[4:01] I'm Augie Wilhelm and I go to Brentwood High School.

[4:04] I'm Eric Matheny and I go to Brentwood High.

[4:06] I'm Charles Gugger and I go to Brentwood Middle School.

[4:09] I'm Jeremy Kalanowski and I go to Brentwood Middle School.

[4:12] I am Emerson Visser and I go to Brentwood Middle.

[4:16] Well gentlemen, thank you very much for being here tonight.

[4:19] Doing an excellent job and thank you for spending the time with the commission.

[4:22] I know a commissioner, Donahue, and I really enjoyed the visit prior to this meeting tonight.

[4:27] You asked excellent questions, and I'm very impressed by the quality of our young people

[4:32] in this scouting organization.

[4:34] I don't know if you have anything to add?

[4:35] Yes.

[4:36] Thank you very much for coming and for being interested in our city, and I'd like you

[4:40] all to just remember what I said about just going out there.

[4:42] And I know you have a good volunteer already in your group, but be inspired.

[4:47] Follow his leadership and get out, volunteer, and get involved in the community, whether

[4:51] whether it's your school, the library, or even larger groups.

[4:58] Well, it takes us on to our next section of the meeting.

[5:01] We have some proclamations tonight. And tonight is my honor to recognize

[5:05] one of our incredible institutions here in

[5:09] Brentwood, not just the Brentwood Library, but the Friends of Brentwood Library.

[5:13] So I think we have quite a few friends here, if you'd like to approach the podium, and

[5:17] I don't know if you have anything you'd like to share with us about that tonight.

[5:27] Hello, my name is Tricia Allison. I'm president of the Friends of the Brentwood Library, and I brought gifts for you all.

[5:32] Oh, wow.

[5:40] Hey, thank you very much.

[5:58] Thank you for having us here tonight. In your hands, you also have our one pager with a lot of our information on it.

[6:04] It's kind of like our annual report to you guys to say, you know what we've done for the year

[6:08] And we also provided a document that has all the monies

[6:13] We have donated to the library from 2020 to 2025 kind of broken out

[6:20] It is such an honor to be here tonight to represent the friends the Brentwood Library

[6:25] Tomorrow the friends celebrate our 49th year of service to the John P. Holt Brentwood Library

[6:30] library. Over the years, we have contributed approximately $1.8 million to the library.

[6:38] In May this year, Friends contributed the single largest donation in our history, a gift

[6:43] of $200,000 to the library. Along with the funding from the 2017 John P.

[6:53] Holt Bequest,

[6:54] the Friends donation has helped with the Friends gathering room refresh and the renovations

[6:59] that will occur in the teen space.

[7:02] This year, Friends has volunteered over 6,000 hours.

[7:07] Based on a minimum pay rate of library employees

[7:10] of $17.32, we have saved the city of Brentwood

[7:14] over $100,000.

[7:16] Friends is a really fun organization to volunteer with.

[7:20] Oh, that's cups that's on here.

[7:21] It's a really fun organization to volunteer with

[7:24] if you need service hours.

[7:28] If you're looking for a group who loves libraries and loves books, please check out our website

[7:33] at fobaltn.org.

[7:35] We have many dedicated volunteers that come in weekly and many that come in quarterly

[7:40] to help us with our book sales.

[7:43] So far in 2025, our book sales have raised over $58,000.

[7:49] At our July book sale alone, we raise a record-breaking $24,780.

[7:56] We continue to appreciate the generous donations of books, puzzles, and game from our community.

[8:02] With those donations, we are able to raise funds for the exceptional programs for our

[8:07] community and the community benefits with access to high-quality books at a low cost.

[8:12] We are open to the public for this October's book sale, starting this Friday the 17th through the 19th.

[8:20] We have an amazing selection of books where you'll be sure to find your next read or a holiday gift for someone on your list.

[8:27] Our eBay and Amazon stores continue to thrive.

[8:30] The Friends online bookstore is on pace to earn $70,000 this year with over 2,700 items shipped.

[8:38] And I wanted to mention a few more good things to look forward to.

[8:43] Booktacular is our fun family friendly event put on by the friends.

[8:49] It is held October 25th from three to five.

[8:52] Last year we had over 900 participants.

[8:55] At this event children get to trick or treat at 15 different stations throughout the library

[9:00] and every child will go home with a bag of goodies and a book.

[9:04] Friends, winter wonderland holiday trees will be on display starting November 19th.

[9:09] This is a wonderful addition to the library library that has been so well received,

[9:13] we decided to add another 12-foot tree to the display.

[9:18] The friends will once again be providing hot cocoa for the annual tree lighting ceremony on December 1st.

[9:25] We know that the library is the heart of our community.

[9:28] We also want to recognize how hard our librarians work each day

[9:32] to put on programs for our community to keep up the collection of books and to assist patrons.

[9:37] The library is so much more than just a building.

[9:39] Libraries grow communities.

[9:42] We cannot do what we do without the support of each of our city commissioners and the

[9:48] generous backing of our community.

[9:50] Thank you for your recognition and stay tuned for 2026 as we continue to support

[9:54] the library and its mission.

[9:56] Well, thank you.

[9:58] Thank you.

[10:03] and tell you just just the volunteers right here I mean if y'all realize I

[10:08] know a lot of y'all have been involved for a lot over the past well five or six

[10:13] years and by the numbers you just shared of the 1.8 million that you've

[10:20] raised over 49 years about 30% of that is in the last five years and that

[10:26] is amazing and you've really raised the bar so thank you so much for your

[10:31] work. So as you know, it is my honor to read a couple of proclamations. So we'll start

[10:40] out with proclamation number one, whereas Friends of the Broward Library celebrates its 49th

[10:48] anniversary and has raised over a million dollars, pretty close to two million dollars,

[10:54] for the John P. Holt Broward Library to move from good to great, providing the resources

[11:00] courses for additional programming, much-needed equipment, funding for the children's summer

[11:05] reading, artistic exhibits, exterior sculpture, and special events throughout the year.

[11:14] Whereas the work of the Friends of the Bromwood Library highlights, on an ongoing basis, that

[11:19] our library is the cornerstone of the community, providing opportunities for all to engage

[11:24] in the joy of life-long learning and connect with the thoughts and ideas of others

[11:30] from ages past to the present, whereas Friends of the Library understand the critical importance

[11:37] of well-funded libraries and advocate to ensure that our library receives the resources it

[11:44] needs to provide a wide variety of services to all ages, including access to print and

[11:50] electronic materials along with expert assistance in research, readers' advisory, and children's

[11:56] services.

[11:56] and whereas the friends gift of their time and commitment the John P. Holt

[12:02] Brentwood Library sets an example for all and how volunteerism leads to positive

[12:08] civic engagement and the betterment of our community. Now therefore be it

[12:14] resolved that I Nelson Andrews, Mayor of the City of Brentwood, proclaim October

[12:19] 14th 2025 as friends of the Brentwood Library Day in Brentwood, Tennessee and

[12:25] I urge everyone to join the Friends of the Library in its 49th anniversary celebration

[12:31] and thank them for all you do to enhance our library and community.

[12:38] Thank you.

[12:41] Proclamation number two, whereas Friends of the Library raise money that enables our

[12:48] library to move from good to great, providing the resources for additional programming

[12:53] funding for the children's summer reading, technology upgrades, staff development, hot

[12:57] spots, telescopes, and much more, and whereas the work of the friends highlight on an ongoing

[13:04] basis their library is the cornerstone of the community providing opportunities for

[13:10] all to engage in the joy of lifelong learning and connect with the thoughts and ideas

[13:16] of others from ages past to the present, and whereas the friends understand the critical

[13:23] importance of well-funded libraries and advocate to ensure their library receives the resources

[13:29] it needs to provide a wide variety of services to all ages, including access to print and

[13:36] electronic materials, expert assistance in research, Reader's Advisory in Children's

[13:43] Services, and whereas the friend's gift of their time and commitment to the library

[13:48] library sets an example for all and how volunteerism leads to positive civic engagement and the

[13:54] betterment of our community.

[13:56] Now therefore, as Mayor of the City of Brentwood, I do join with the Board of Commissioners

[14:02] in proclaiming October 19th through the 25th, 2025, as Friends of the Libraries Week in

[14:10] the City of Brentwood, and urge all citizens to join the Friends of the Library and thank

[14:15] them for all they do to enhance our library and community.

[15:34] The

[15:40] Friends of the Library epitomized the great volunteer spirit through the decades and

[15:48] even centuries since people have lived here in Brentwood, and so I appreciate it. Literacy

[15:54] is one of the greatest walls against tyranny and one of the greatest guardrails for our

[16:00] liberties and freedom and so I really appreciate the fact that our library holds and in the

[16:07] general spirit of Brentwood, those who love certain things, you know, put their money

[16:13] where their mouth is I guess you might say and so appreciate that and kind of to paraphrase

[16:19] and spirit what former president said is that's not what our city can do for me

[16:27] asking instead what can I do for my city so thank you I appreciate all your hard

[16:33] work so thank you and I think my vinyl albums that I brought up there maybe

[16:37] earned a little bit of this man and what you all do is truly important in

[16:46] in so many ways, and thank you for all the time,

[16:48] effort and love that you put into it.

[16:51] All right, it is our pleasure to move now

[16:53] to the oath of office for Firefighter Devin Tucker, Chief.

[17:06] Mayor, Vice Mayor, commissioners,

[17:07] it's my pleasure to introduce you to firefighter Devin Tucker.

[17:11] Hey, how are you?

[17:12] Devin is a native of Cocoa Beach, Florida,

[17:15] where he got exposed to the fire service at a young age.

[17:17] His mom used to volunteer with Brevard County

[17:20] fire in Florida.

[17:22] He relocated into the Chattanooga area where he explored mechanics and engineering before taking advantage of an opportunity to go to work for Bradley County Fire Department.

[17:33] He was there for three years before he decided to come to us. He has his Firefighter II certification and his EMT basic certification.

[17:43] Devin, can you introduce your guest?

[17:45] Yeah.

[17:45] This is my wife, Safi, and my daughter, Vita.

[17:50] I'm sure you heard me.

[17:53] Fantastic.

[18:04] I've got a whole lot of personality right there.

[18:06] That's excellent.

[18:08] All right.

[18:09] Ready?

[18:10] Aye.

[18:11] Devin Tucker.

[18:12] Aye.

[18:12] Devin Tucker.

[18:13] Do solemnly swear.

[18:14] Do solemnly swear.

[18:16] That I possess all the qualifications.

[18:18] That I possess all the qualifications.

[18:20] For the duties of firefighter.

[18:22] For the duties of firefighter.

[18:23] As prescribed.

[18:24] as prescribed by the city of Brentwood and I will support the Constitution and will obey

[18:31] the laws of the United States and the State of Tennessee and I will in all respects observe

[18:41] the provisions of the Charter and ordinances of the city of Brentwood and faithfully discharge

[18:52] And I will faithfully discharge the duty is a firefighter the duty is a firefighter. Thank you very much. Well, sir. Thank you

[19:55] So you get away

[20:32] Well and not to be outdone we also have the oath of office for police officer Lauren Royce

[20:46] Good evening, commissioners. This is Lauren Rice. She recently joined us in April. She

[20:52] graduated from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy in September. She's originally

[20:58] from Fort Worth, Dallas and later moved to upstate New York where she graduated from

[21:03] high school. She then attended Texas Christian University and received a bachelor's degree

[21:10] and finance and a minor in psychology.

[21:14] She is recently married. This is her husband, Nate,

[21:18] and we are very pleased to have her join our team.

[21:22] Welcome.

[21:38] Yes, sir.

[21:39] All right. I, Lauren Royce.

[21:41] I, Lauren Royce.

[21:43] Do solemnly swear.

[21:44] Do solemnly swear.

[21:45] That I possess all the qualifications.

[21:47] That I possess all the qualifications.

[21:49] For the duties of police officer.

[21:50] For the duties of police officer.

[21:52] As prescribed by the city of Brentwood.

[21:54] As prescribed by the city of Brentwood.

[21:55] the city of Brentwood, and that I will support the Constitution, and that I will obey the

[22:00] laws of the United States, and the State of Tennessee, and that I will, in all respects,

[22:10] observe the provisions of the Charter,

[22:14] and ordinances of the city of Brentwood, and that

[22:18] I will faithfully discharge the duties of police officer, and that I will faithfully

[22:22] discharge the duties of police officer hey welcome all

[22:53] right

[23:08] next on our agenda is

[23:09] the approval or correction of the minutes has ever had a chance to read those

[23:13] and have a motion motion to approve ever very brief okay a motion approved by a

[23:19] commissioner done most are seconded by commissioner Pippin all in favor say aye

[23:25] Opposed? All right. So now for a second time tonight, we'll move on to comments from citizens.

[23:33] I'm guessing we don't have anyone signed up. The Chief ran off with our new officers.

[23:39] But individuals may comment on any item included on the consent or regular agenda or any other matter regarding the City of Brentwood.

[23:48] All comments should be directed to the Board of Commissioners.

[23:51] Citizens who wish to request an item be moved from the consent agenda to the regular agenda

[23:56] for discussion should make that known to the board at this time.

[24:00] While we didn't have anyone sign up, anyone wishing to speak may approach the podium is

[24:07] not required to sign in.

[24:08] So is anyone here to speak tonight?

[24:12] All right, Jared, Steve, I see you back there, all right, he's thinking about it.

[24:17] All right, so with that, if no one is, we're going to close the Citizens' Comments

[24:21] and move on to report from our city manager or in this case our emergency

[24:26] backup city manager thank you mayor I do have a few brief announcements for you

[24:31] this being October we do have our fall cleanup happening so if residents have

[24:36] had larger items that they can't get rid of with their normal household waste

[24:41] then they can take them to one of two locations on the first weekend this

[24:46] Saturday. We will be at Granny White Park on the 18th. We will be at Tower Park on the

[24:53] 25th and again back at Granny White Park on November 1st. Between the hours of 8 a.m.

[24:58] and 4 p.m. residents can bring appliances, furniture, some computer waste. We recommend

[25:05] that people go and look on our website. We've got a full list of things that you

[25:09] can and cannot bring there. Household Hazardous Waste is one of the things that we can't

[25:13] But there's a complete list available on the website and we encourage our residents to come by and take advantage of this free program.

[25:20] Very good.

[25:20] Do also have a Veterans Day ceremony.

[25:23] I want to announce that to the public so that everybody knows that on November 11th at 11 a.m. over at the police department headquarters,

[25:31] which is located at 910 Heritage Way.

[25:34] We will have a ceremony over there in celebration of Veterans Day.

[25:37] The reason we have chosen that location is because that will be where our Veterans Monument

[25:42] is going to be located, and so it's very fitting to have this next celebration of our Veterans

[25:48] at that location.

[25:50] Also, this is not a city of Brentwood Project, but it does affect our residents.

[25:55] McEwen Drive is going to be closed on October 17th from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. to City of

[26:02] Franklin Project, but many of our residents drive that route, so we'd recommend

[26:06] and they make other plans on October 17th

[26:09] between 7p and 6a for McEwen Drive.

[26:14] And then lastly, because our scouts are here

[26:16] and I spoke to our scout master briefly,

[26:19] I just wanna talk about a neat project

[26:21] that the Environmental Advisory Board has going

[26:23] and we just met tonight, we're talking about it.

[26:25] It's our Drainstor River curb marker project.

[26:29] And so we have cast aluminum medallions,

[26:32] they're small round medallions that go at the curb

[26:35] an inlet where storm water would run off into the inlet that's a location that

[26:40] we don't want anybody to put anything down there that shouldn't be down there

[26:43] only rainwater should be down there but occasionally somebody might get the

[26:47] idea to empty something out it's a convenient spot for them well we don't

[26:51] want to do that because it drains to our creeks and rivers and so there's

[26:55] an opportunity to place these curb markers out in our neighborhoods the

[26:59] first ones that were targeting the neighborhoods closest to the river but

[27:02] Honestly, all of Brentwood needs these markers

[27:04] at every curb inlet.

[27:06] And so on our website, under boards and commissions,

[27:10] Environmental Advisory Board,

[27:11] we have a section for the curb marker project.

[27:14] There's a link to where you can purchase the medallions.

[27:18] The idea is that the community would fund

[27:20] raise their own small project by the medallions.

[27:23] We've got the instructions on how they can

[27:25] have them installed.

[27:26] If they have any questions,

[27:27] my contact information is available on the website.

[27:29] but we wanted our residents really to have skin in the game and for those who

[27:33] go out in the community and put those markers down they think about and can

[27:37] talk about the importance of keeping those inlets clean so that's that's what

[27:42] we were going to talk about but I figured since we have the the television

[27:45] and the in the website right now let's let's talk about it so it's all good

[27:49] there outstanding thank you very much that's our report from our city

[27:54] attorney thank you so much Mary Andrews I have nothing to report

[27:58] tonight. Very good. Well, no news is good news. All right, so we'll move on to reports and comments

[28:03] from the commissioners and mayor. So tonight we'll start with Janet. Alison, we have the slides

[28:09] please. So a joint city library parks and rotary project was in the year 2000 when a time capsule

[28:19] was buried at the library. There was a marker placed there. There was also a tree planted

[28:25] planted at the same time. And that was unearthed on October 5th in the afternoon. And as you'll

[28:33] see from the pictures, Mayor Andrews was involved there, as was former city manager

[28:40] Kirk Bednar, who was involved with the rotary in implanting it. Charles Booth, our city

[28:48] communications, PR, man of all trades was involved and our work was overseen by

[28:55] Reynolds Booth, Charles Sun, who made sure everybody was on task, and the

[29:03] gentleman at the special shout-out to the gentleman in the yellow shirt, his

[29:06] name is Josh, who I think works for public works or parks, parkly works, and

[29:11] I'll tell you what I mean. So as we go to the next slide you can see that

[29:14] that they successfully dug up as Commissioner Dunn and Gillian.

[29:19] Is that right?

[29:20] Jilla.

[29:20] Jilla, they're assisted by Planning Commissioner Preston Bain, where Commissioner Bain was involved

[29:26] from the beginning on this project.

[29:29] He was involved with Rotary when they placed it.

[29:32] He's a lifelong resident of Brentwood and not only contributed to that project but

[29:36] was able to give us some more history at Brentwood at that time.

[29:38] And then the box was dug up.

[29:41] And remember, Scouts, I was talking about how would you save these kind of things?

[29:46] Well, they placed it in a steel box, but everybody thought that inside was another container,

[29:50] and it turned out it wasn't.

[29:52] It also turned out that we couldn't open the box because the screws had rusted shut.

[29:56] So, Josh actually had a power tool and a...

[30:00] That's exactly what he did with it, but it seemed like he was grinding down the bolts

[30:05] and then was able to pry it open. And so, next slide, please. Then everything was taken out.

[30:12] Unfortunately, a lot of the paper products were a little bit musty. All but a few of

[30:18] the photographs were no longer recognizable. The inks had gotten wet and melted down, dissolved

[30:26] down the pictures. There were some other though things that were preserved and some things were in

[30:31] a those white poly envelopes which helped a little bit. Most of the elementary schools participated

[30:37] and had things in there from photos to essays and things along that nature. Kenrose was a brand

[30:44] new school at the time. They donated their cardinal there that made it believe it or not.

[30:50] Reuben Wood did not exist at that time so there was nothing from Ravenwood High not intentionally.

[30:57] And it was a great experience.

[31:00] We learned a lot about the city.

[31:01] In the top right picture, you'll see the,

[31:05] on the far right is Rob Arnheimer.

[31:06] He's currently president of the Rotary Club.

[31:09] Larry Boyd was president at the time it was placed.

[31:12] And Theresa Beard is both involved then and now

[31:16] in unearthing it, but it was a really good moment

[31:18] and it makes you think about what you should,

[31:20] what's worth saving, what's not.

[31:22] And also how do you communicate that?

[31:24] Because at that time, there were no thumb drives

[31:26] drives, or hard drives, or anything for your computer, there was something called floppy

[31:29] disks. And if people had placed them on floppy disks, the disk probably would be fine, but

[31:33] nobody's computer could read them. So that's something for you guys to think about, but

[31:39] the written word is probably the best. And if we go to the next slide, we will see that

[31:44] the problems that cities have now are the same problems that cities had 20 years

[31:49] ago. Where the Walgreens is on the corner of Franklin and Maryland Farmsway, there

[31:56] There is, the mayor at the time was actually Mayor Smithson, Commissioner Gowers' mother.

[32:01] Commissioner Dunn I think was involved at that time too and initially was talking about

[32:05] water conservation and we should start now and not wait until we run out of water in

[32:08] the summer.

[32:09] And then also issues concerning streets and traffic and police officers, including our

[32:15] first canine.

[32:16] So it was a great event.

[32:18] Commissioner Dunn.

[32:19] And I just wanted to point out that journals had an article, and this would be of interest

[32:23] to you library folks. The hiring of Chuck Sherrill took place that month. He was the

[32:30] new library director who went on to be the Tennessee State Librarian and is the

[32:35] questioner for our history bowl every month, every year, excuse me, not every

[32:40] month, but I'd forgotten that that was when we hired him. I mean it seems like

[32:46] yesterday, you know, that he was there but I told him he hadn't changed much in

[32:51] the picture, so it was a place to hear that.

[32:57] My other comments, it was a great event, and one hopefully will be replicated in the future.

[33:03] To go on to the library, I don't have as much to report because the friends and Trisha

[33:08] were able to announce most of that, I do want to encourage everybody to stop by the library

[33:12] book sale this week, set up as Wednesday, Thursday, sale starts to the public Friday,

[33:17] Saturday, and Sunday, and I know that you all want to show up on Sunday at 5.30

[33:21] right scouts to help take down the book sale there and get your volunteer hours.

[33:26] There is a young man that apparently how many times have you volunteered?

[33:29] At least ten.

[33:30] At least ten times already, with

[33:35] taking down, with taking down.

[33:39] Other important things at the library, Oakland Scott gave us some information about the

[33:45] genealogy.

[33:46] So right along with the time capsule, genealogy is important.

[33:50] There are many resources available at our library and free to the patrons.

[33:55] They are doing some preliminary work on homebound delivery of books and materials for people.

[34:01] Circulation keeps increasing.

[34:04] They had over 3,500 people participate in either child, teen or adult programs in the

[34:10] month of September alone.

[34:11] So pretty amazing statistics, 709 volunteer hours in September of everything from friends

[34:16] of the Brentwood Library to casual people, to teens, and actually there are some special

[34:20] students from Brentwood High that come and volunteer on a scheduled basis. And that was

[34:25] about $12,000 worth of labor if we paid for that. And over 20,000 people a month are

[34:30] using the library. And that's all I have.

[34:34] Very good. Commissioner Travis.

[34:38] Thank you, Mayor. Congratulations to Fire and Police, more great people. From this

[34:45] This vantage point up here to see all the first responders lined up in the back is

[34:50] quite impressive.

[34:51] We've got a great group of people.

[34:52] Thank you guys so much for what you're doing.

[34:54] Greatly appreciated.

[34:56] Again from this vantage point, seeing these smiling faces of the Scouts is really incredible.

[35:02] And you know what?

[35:02] They're paying attention.

[35:04] They're out there.

[35:04] They're looking.

[35:06] They're, you should be pleased with this.

[35:08] Not all troops do that.

[35:09] You guys are being very, very well behaved.

[35:12] And I just think it says so much for our community.

[35:14] And it also says so much for our leaders. It takes a lot of time, I'm sure for you guys.

[35:19] Thank you very much. Every minute you invest is paid back 10-fold. So thank you so much.

[35:26] And Library? Wow. Wow. What more to say. It's just tremendous. Thank you so much. Love

[35:33] it, love it, love it. From the Planning Commission side, just a little something here.

[35:39] We had come up last week that Brentwood Academy wanted to put lights on the baseball field

[35:45] and build a dugout and there was quite a bit of participation at the meeting by some neighbors

[35:52] who were concerned with what was going on.

[35:57] I made a recommendation that they defer the lights just so they could have another

[36:03] meeting with the neighbors.

[36:04] My suggestion was just be neighborly.

[36:06] Just be neighborly and meet with them.

[36:08] Let's see what it all is because it seems like we had two sides there and they weren't getting together.

[36:14] I'm happy to report I got a note today that says Brentwood Academy has been in touch with River Oaks HOA

[36:22] and they've agreed to include Brentwood Academy on an agenda for their upcoming meeting schedule on October 23rd.

[36:29] The goal is to have an open and construction discussion

[36:33] So we can better understand neighborhood perspectives,

[36:36] share updates, and work collaboratively to address any concerns.

[36:41] That's what we ask them to do, just be neighborly.

[36:44] And Brentwood Academy is right in the middle of those neighborhoods,

[36:47] and if they can work with those, it's a lot easier

[36:50] and a lot better for that to be worked out that way

[36:52] than an edict having to come from the bench up here.

[36:55] So I'm very happy and hopeful for that.

[36:58] And that's all I have, Mayor.

[37:00] here. Very good. Thank you. Commissioner Pippin. Yeah, the tree board nothing to report from

[37:06] here because we'll have a meeting pending on the 21st. So I have nothing new to add

[37:12] since the Arboretum tagging project that we did, which was a lot of fun actually.

[37:18] But next meeting, thank you. Very good. Commissioner Dunn. Thank you, Mayor. The historic board

[37:25] Pardon me, we'll meet this coming Friday at 9.30 here in this building.

[37:32] October 25th is the date for our kickoff celebration.

[37:41] We are celebrating, but it will be sort of solemn because we're honoring Revolutionary

[37:47] War soldiers who are from Williams and from Brentwood specifically.

[37:54] During the 250th year, and we've identified quite a few already, and the first one will

[38:02] be recognized with the marker at his grave site, and it's on the property of the library

[38:08] at 1 p.m. that day, and our event should not last 45 minutes or so, so we'll be having

[38:17] our historic event and then at 3 o'clock you can come to the kids can all come to the fun

[38:23] library event so the library is going to be a big busy place that day.

[38:29] I just want to talk about the friends for a second.

[38:33] They named me their new BFF this year, you know what they're meeting.

[38:39] I like them of course.

[38:40] But people who volunteer with Friends of the Library are people who love books.

[38:47] That's what it is.

[38:48] If you love books, you love a library.

[38:51] You love the knowledge.

[38:52] And it's a labor of love.

[38:54] And you are always so smiling and happy, and during your book sales, nobody looks worn

[39:00] out even though I know you are, but we thank you for that.

[39:04] And as a former English teacher, I really appreciate people who love the knowledge and the value

[39:11] of a library to the community, and you've done more than your part.

[39:16] And the youth scouts, I know every one of you in your mind has some idea of what you

[39:24] want to be when you're an adult.

[39:27] Some do not know exactly.

[39:28] Exactly, some have wild dreams, you know, you're going to change the face of movies

[39:35] or music or whatever, some of you want to be inventors, some of you want to be tech

[39:40] giants in the tech industry, whatever.

[39:44] In your mind, fast forward 15 years and you will be the generation leading us then.

[39:53] You'll be making decisions and shaping this country.

[39:56] you are our future and that's a big burden and you've started off well by

[40:04] being scouts and learning how to work as a team, learn skills, learn the love of

[40:12] your country and it just makes my heart feel so good to see all of you young

[40:18] men out there pursuing this and sticking with it because we all depend on

[40:24] you. I mean one day we're going to pass this mantle along to other people, the state leaders

[40:30] will, business leaders will, national leaders will, and you'll be ready to step in those

[40:37] roles and do right by your communities and your families. So thank you, thank you for

[40:43] all you do for going to those meetings and I know sometimes you've got homework and

[40:48] You're busy, but you go, and your leaders, they've got busy lives too, but they care

[40:54] about the things I was just talking about, and they're there for you.

[40:58] So boys, thank you so much.

[41:00] We admire you.

[41:01] You're doing a great job.

[41:02] Try to stick with it as long as you can, and that's all I want to say to you.

[41:07] I have two little grandsons that are in scouts, and I tell them that all the time, and

[41:12] I hope they'll listen and stick with it, you know?

[41:15] know, but if they don't, that's up to them, but I hope the leaders will be the kind of

[41:22] leaders that will inspire them to want to do it, so I appreciate what you all do.

[41:28] Very good. Thank you. Commissioner Garros?

[41:31] Thank you. I second what Anne said about the library and the Scouts, and I have a special

[41:36] place in my heart. I have an Eagle Scout and a Life Scout, and I know how much time

[41:40] time and effort and work and to balance your social life and school and scouting and sports

[41:46] and all the other stuff. I have great respect for what you guys do. So, and thank you for

[41:52] being here. So, and then as far as the parks go, we are excited because we have a date.

[42:01] We have the bathrooms are done for Wendy Hill Park. That's exciting. We have less

[42:08] than 20% of the concrete to be done so that's exciting because that's kind of

[42:13] towards the end. The playground is installed. Janet texted she said I saw

[42:17] the playground going in. I was like yay! And so first-hand reports from

[42:22] Commissioner Donahue. The gates and signage are done. The perimeter crush and

[42:27] run. It's gonna be awesome. It's 90% complete. And the target opening grand

[42:33] kickoff ribbon cutting is December 13th tentatively we're still waiting on some some things to

[42:41] confirm that but otherwise everything is in order for that so we're really appreciative

[42:46] for the parks department and their hard work in doing that getting that done and so and

[42:52] otherwise I think we're that's that's all we have for the parks department right now

[42:58] so thank you mayor.

[42:59] Very good. Thank you. Vice Mayor, a little.

[43:03] Yeah. Thank you, Scouts, and thank you for the dedication it takes to earn those merit badges and do the community service and just all the many things you learned.

[43:12] So I appreciate you being here this evening. You all probably did a much better job of the pledge than I would have tonight, so.

[43:21] EAB, Matt, is our Assistant City Manager, Jay Evans mentioned, and the train markers are

[43:29] something we'd like to see all over our community just so people know not to dump things in

[43:34] the drain that goes into the creeks and rivers. But we also, next Tuesday, and anybody

[43:44] He would be welcome to come, but we'll be planning more milkweed seed for our pollinator

[43:51] garden at Smith Park.

[43:54] Pollinators have kind of not done real well the last five or 10 years, and so this is

[44:00] a way to enhance.

[44:01] I know at our house we have a certain section of our landscaping that's basically a pollinator

[44:07] garden for the honey bees and the butterflies and without pollination we

[44:13] don't eat so it's a very important thing that'll be October 21st at 5 30 p.m.

[44:20] Smith Park if you park in the north parking lot if you look at the mansion

[44:24] to the right of the mansion you simply walk up the the large trail that may

[44:29] one day be a road to the back 80 right there on the side is where we'll be

[44:35] spread and seed and you're welcome to come. And also March 7th we are gonna

[44:41] have a weed wrangling in a Crockett Park and the city has purchased excagators

[44:51] extractigators what we're trying to do is take out non-native plants and

[44:58] invasive species that kind of

[45:00] Crowd out. You have to do it in such a way that the creek and river banks stay stable,

[45:06] but that will be March 7th, if any of you are interested in doing that.

[45:09] On October 4th, I went to Vet Fest, a very neat event right there at Granny White Park.

[45:15] They had live music on the stage and many, many veteran themed exhibits and intents and volunteers.

[45:25] years, and this great event had food and all. It went from like 10 in the morning to 4. My

[45:32] schedule didn't allow me to stay for a long, long time, but it's very neat and kind of neat

[45:38] leading up to our Veterans Day celebration, which I'm very excited about.

[45:43] And in case you noticed, the time he said 11 a.m., the reason it is at 11 a.m.

[45:54] is

[45:56] and that's what Veterans Day actually began as a celebration of that, and then a way to recognize veterans.

[46:04] And so that should be a great event, and it will be right there where Veterans Monument will be hopefully within the next year.

[46:12] So y'all are welcome to that. And as always at this time of the year, I just want y'all to enjoy the blessing of Tennessee in autumn.

[46:20] I always think it's our creator showing off the infinite array of colors that you see on

[46:27] the Tennessee hillside.

[46:29] And so enjoy that.

[46:30] Enjoy the cooler weather.

[46:32] That's all, Mayor.

[46:33] Very good.

[46:34] And I'd also like to thank Scout Troop 93 for being here tonight.

[46:38] You all did a fantastic job and really appreciate that and echo the sentiments of the other

[46:43] commissioners.

[46:44] You know, scouting is a worthwhile activity.

[46:47] It's not always easy, but it is always worth it.

[46:49] So I'm hanging in there and they get all you can out of that

[46:54] And I guess the advantage of going last is you all have checked off just about my entire list

[47:00] Very good looking forward to the December 13th opening of a windy hill. Thanks for the update on what's going on over there

[47:07] I mentioned before I've been trying to take occasionally

[47:11] Occasional unauthorized bike tours the facility while staying off the concrete

[47:14] But it's been really fun to see that come come together

[47:17] I do want to once again just recognize our first responders and all the stuff

[47:21] they do because it is an incredible responsibility to our community and

[47:26] thank you for that. Just to observe that Lieutenant Jason DePierce is over in

[47:32] Hamilton County right now. He is leading the communications effort for

[47:35] that as part of the TMEK. We brought him out there and just

[47:43] the role that we were lucky enough to be able to play, you know, where Brentwood has an

[47:50] outstanding fire and rescue department and an outstanding police department, as well as

[47:55] public works and, you know, over just my time in the commission, there have been a number

[47:59] of things that have happened, you know, I mean, but remembering like when they had

[48:03] the tornadoes in 2000, which we thought was going to be the big story of the year

[48:08] 2000 or 2020 rather and the tornado came through Mount Juliet and we sent

[48:13] public works up there to help them with the cleanup. We mentioned being able to

[48:17] help with stuff in Hamilton County. There have been a number of times that our

[48:22] teams have come out of Brentwood either help with personnel training and

[48:26] equipment or other support for other communities and we're looking up to

[48:29] have the resources here to be able to assist others in need. So thank you

[48:33] to all of y'all for being willing to do that and having an opportunity.

[48:39] So really, I think you all checked up everything I said to say.

[48:42] So with that, we'll move on.

[48:44] Anything else?

[48:45] Well, Commissioner Comments?

[48:47] All right.

[48:47] So we'll move on to the consent agenda.

[48:51] So all matters listed under the consent agenda are considered to be routine and will generally

[48:56] be enacted by one motion, except for any items that are removed from the consent

[49:00] agenda.

[49:00] there will be no separate discussion of them at this time. Are there anything we want to

[49:04] remove from the consent agenda?

[49:08] No? All right. So, Consent Agenda Item Number One, Resolution

[49:12] 2025-70, a resolution authorizing the creation of the Veterans Monument Trust Account within

[49:18] the donations held in the trust fund for adoption. Consent Agenda Item Number Two,

[49:25] 2. Resolution 2025-73, a resolution improving financial lease agreement of five body-worn

[49:32] cameras with Axion Enterprise Inc. for adoption. Do we have a motion?

[49:38] Motion to motion or not? Do we have a second?

[49:43] Commissioner Guerra's, and then you get the last second.

[49:46] All right. All in favor, say aye.

[49:50] Aye.

[49:51] Opposed?

[49:51] All right. Pass it unanimously. All right. Any old business? See none? Any new business?

[50:02] All right. Do we have any motion to adjourn?

[50:05] I move to adjourn.

[50:06] Motion to commission down here. Second, Commissioner Pippin.

[50:09] All in favor say aye.

[50:10] Aye.

[50:11] All in favor say aye.

[50:12] All in favor say aye.

[50:13] All in favor say aye.

[50:14] All in favor say aye.

Oct 13, 2025 City Commission Meeting

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