On June 12, 2025, the Brentwood Public Works Committee voted to reallocate $103,765 from a budgeted Brentwood Park parking project to an erosion-control contract with Castle Construction to stabilize an embankment of Deer Creek near the railroad trestle.

City Administrator Bola, relaying a parks division report prepared by Eric, told the committee that Jacobs Engineering had assessed the site and that Castle Construction provided a stabilization proposal totaling $103,765. Bola said the city has an on-call emergency general contractor agreement with Castle Construction and that, “if the Public Works Committee were to recommend and the Board were to approve it, we could get that work started this summer.”

The proposal would use funds originally budgeted for a parking project in the Brentwood Park green space in the 2025 budget; Bola said staff identified roughly $104,100 in that line item as a potential source for the work. A committee member moved to reallocate $103,765 from the parking allocation to the erosion-control contract; another member seconded, and the committee approved the motion by voice vote.

Staff said the erosion has worsened this spring because of more frequent and intense weather events. Committee discussion noted the problem is concentrated near a storm pipe and the train trestle and that the area is not a long stretch of channel but has recurring scour that undermines the rip-rap and adjacent surface. Jacobs Engineering conducted the assessment and Castle Construction supplied the contractor estimate, Bola said.

Committee members asked where the work would appear next in the approval process; staff reiterated that the committee’s approval is a recommendation and that the Board of Aldermen would need to authorize the reallocation and contract award before crews could begin.

The committee’s action was limited to approving the funding reallocation and recommending the contract; staff did not provide a detailed construction schedule at the meeting beyond the assertion that work could begin this summer if the Board approves.