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City highlights Brentwood Bound achievements and uses sales-tax fund balance to buy parts garage

City of Brentwood Ways and Means meeting · October 22, 2024
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City presenters credited the half-cent economic development sales tax with financing flood mitigation, Manchester Road improvements and new parks, reported a healthy fund balance, and said the Board approved using fund reserves to purchase a new Public Works parts garage; staff also allocated $1,000,000 to service 2018 certificates of participation.

Speaker 1 presented the Economic Development Sales Tax (Brentwood Bound) report, telling the committee the voter-approved half-cent tax has funded three major initiatives — Deer Creek flood mitigation, Manchester Road improvements and the Deer Creek Greenway connector — and has helped the city complete a 32-acre Brentwood Park and a destination playground that opened this year.

Speaker 1 said the sales-tax fund has performed…

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