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Kevin Hsu, an account executive with Sports Facilities Companies, and Ryan Ferguson, the project manager on the advisory team, led a remote briefing and sought details the consultants said they need to build a detailed financial pro forma. \"We're going to be very specific...to the dollar the expectations and projections of revenue streams, expenses, operational expenses,\" Hsu said, describing the team's approach to market analysis, utilization projections and revenue modeling.

City staff said their expectation is clear: the facility should be fully utilized and \"more than breaks even,\" with enough ongoing revenue to fund routine replacements and renewal without an ongoing tax subsidy. \"Maximizing revenue is not necessarily the goal,\" a city staff member, Jay, told the advisers, \"but providing a quality facility that the community enjoys and uses to its fullest, while fully paying for itself and its future replacement would be our vision of success.\" The commission reiterated that priority access should favor Brentwood residents, though staff and commissioners said they are open to allowing county users when resident demand is met.

Consultants and commissioners discussed key operational assumptions the pro forma will test: resident priority booking and resident pricing; a focus on youth programming during after‑school hours; keeping alcohol off site; light concessions and \"grab‑and‑go\" food that supports user experience without running a full restaurant; and limited hosting of tournaments. Multiple commissioners said residents have voiced opposition to large, recurring out‑of‑town tournaments that would generate heavy traffic near nearby schools and churches, so the facility should be designed for occasional regional play but not as a national tournament venue.

On concessions and on‑site food and beverage, Hsu said industry practice for social sports such as pickleball is to provide seating and modest food and drink options to extend user experience and capture revenue. \"We want concessions...and cafe seating areas, places to sit and socialize and hang out after the game,\" he said, adding that the city could choose to limit alcohol and avoid competing with private restaurants. The commission agreed that modest concessions to serve parents and participants would be appropriate; the city attorney indicated alcohol would not be allowed at a city park facility.

The consultants also asked to include sponsorship revenue as a line item in the pro forma. Staff confirmed the city has an existing sponsorship policy and that naming rights and sponsorship approval levels would require additional city commission review.

Finance staff briefed commissioners on how the facility could be funded and accounted for. Karen, a finance staff member, outlined the tradeoffs of an enterprise fund versus accounting for the facility in the general fund. She told the commission that Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) guidance and city policy can require an enterprise fund if the city adopts a user‑fee model intended to fully recover operating and capital costs (including debt whose repayment is pledged to facility revenues). \"If you want this facility's user fees and charges to cover the cost, GASB requires that it be an enterprise fund,\" she said, adding that enterprise accounting increases transparency but also adds administrative complexity and market risk if revenues do not meet projections.

Commissioners asked consultants to model multiple scenarios — resident‑only priority use, mixed resident/county use, and limited tournament hosting — and to include sponsorship options and concession assumptions. The city asked the consultants to incorporate technology and residency verification options (for example ZIP code checks and address confirmations) to support resident priority in the booking system.

Next steps: Sports Facilities Companies will proceed with the detailed market and financial analysis and return a pro forma and utilization estimates to staff. The commission asked staff and consultants to return with a clearer estimate of one‑time capital costs, operating revenue projections, and options for enterprise fund accounting and debt treatment before the council makes a final decision on the facility model or funding plan.

","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Brentwood - City Commission Briefing - Mar 20, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Brentwood City Commission members and staff told Sports Facilities Companies advisers on Tuesday that any indoor “racket” facility should be resident‑focused, support year‑round youth programs and lessons, and be structured to at least break even operationally.","taxTitle","Brentwood, Williamson County, Tennessee","taxId",62216,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6628627,"Brentwood weighing hazardous‑duty pension supplement for police and firefighters; actuarial report shows roughly $3 million one‑time cost",2783,3509000,6292000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2716017-516a1b2357fb7979573622be8112c37f&start=3509&end=6292","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2716017-516a1b2357fb7979573622be8112c37f/thumbnail_3509000.jpg","/articles/6628627/Brentwood/Williamson-County/Tennessee/Brentwood-weighing-hazardousduty-pension-supplement-for-police-and-firefighters-actuarial-report-shows-roughly-3-million-onetime-cost","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6628627-147ca5c8f4a9e5a20dec80409d6858f7/orig.mp4?Expires=1771206197&Signature=Vl4YOeLXserrprb6Zt~4JAxZPryb4GBwLkCn2UXExvhm~FhPYIvCLh6Qf5FA--3NJFjucOw4V-FH5CFGUX0YPYTYXB~IAuB7Ln9nsItQ86bjN4~284CzTCKiChF0yb57FmZSxs1QJlvvDCrYMQhKwG95cbaIDtwwUuWbtrjKn3hi1wOvGJfHA1WYJTwR7UFzoAY-Rn7XyPbV9jLVugSz0cIYrlWPrVBesWtQIfJdlUb7XGVLs~xLqzYrcFiQN2ITUPOmASQ-gaVszV5b-oPz9nKzqCiZNbkSfV5gdX4f03iERP5ukRRLLVEM-ky1qkz4LUUwZNw2GEJ16FE68NRMqQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Brentwood finance staff and members of the City Commission discussed whether to adopt a supplemental hazardous‑duty pension benefit for sworn police and fire employees during a lengthy briefing Tuesday. Staff presented actuarial findings from the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System (TCRS) that showed the proposed supplement would create immediate unfunded liabilities and materially increase the city's pension funding requirement.

Jay, a city staff member presenting the actuarial summary, explained that the city currently has a legacy plan and a hybrid plan for different employee cohorts and that the bridge benefit adopted in 2009 already provides elevated retirement multipliers designed to help public safety employees bridge to Social Security at early‑retirement age. The proposed hazardous‑duty supplement would add an additional 0.375 percentage point multiplier for ages 60 through 67, extending a benefit bridge to full Social Security age and increasing retirement benefit levels for 25‑ and 30‑year employees.

The actuarial numbers discussed included a rough estimate that fully prefunding the new supplemental benefit would be about $3,000,000 across general and public safety plans. Staff said amortizing that cost over 10 years would imply roughly $300,000 a year. Jay also noted newly released TCRS assumptions that will raise the city's base contribution rates (for example, the legacy plan employer rate referenced in the briefing rose to 9.68% in the actuarial update), which reduces the city's current overfunding cushion.

Staff recommended caution. \"The hazardous duty benefit creates pension liabilities that currently do not exist,\" Jay said, summarizing staff's concern that the new benefit would eliminate the city's overfunded position and expose the city to additional long‑term actuarial risk. He emphasized that adopting the supplement would create retrospective unfunded liabilities that persist and could grow if future actuarial assumptions or investment performance deteriorated.

Commissioners and public safety leaders split on the proposal. Several commissioners voiced support for adopting the supplement as a recruitment and retention tool and argued it would help compensate first responders for the stress and health impacts of the work. One commissioner said the annualized cost — in staff examples, about $300,000/year if amortized — was manageable for Brentwood and defended the supplemental benefit as a core public safety investment. \"A core responsibility of government is public safety,\" the commissioner said.

Police and fire leaders said the bridge benefit is an important recruitment and retention feature but acknowledged many recruits focus on near‑term take‑home pay. Chief representatives said the hazardous‑duty supplement could help retain personnel who might otherwise leave for agencies that offer better retirement additions. Staff and the chief also noted that any supplemental benefit accrued applies only for time served after adoption (employees do not retroactively accrue years in the supplement when they move between agencies), and that only Montgomery County in Tennessee had adopted the supplement to date; staff said 22 agencies had requested actuarial reports but that adoption elsewhere was limited.

The commission did not adopt the hazardous‑duty supplement at the briefing. Commissioners asked for more time and additional comparative information and directed staff to return with follow‑up analysis. One member of the commission asked for clearer cost options and other recruitment and retention alternatives (such as different pay scales, shift differentials and take‑home vehicle policies) to compare costs and benefits. Staff said the current city budget was being developed without the supplement and recommended any decision be timed to allow budget staff to incorporate the actuarial impact.

Next steps: Commissioners asked staff to provide additional details, including comparisons with other agencies, the likely annual budget impact under different amortization schedules, and recruitment/retention counterproposal cost estimates. The commission tentatively agreed to revisit the item within roughly two weeks to allow budget‑season constraints and additional information gathering.","Brentwood finance staff and commissioners discussed a proposed hazardous‑duty pension supplement for sworn public safety employees and received actuarial figures that showed a roughly $3 million one‑time funding equivalent or about $300,000 per year amortized over 10 years.","actionData","errors"]

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Brentwood narrows goals for indoor racket facility; consultants to model resident-first, self‑supporting plan

Brentwood weighing hazardous‑duty pension supplement for police and firefighters; actuarial report shows roughly $3 million one‑time cost