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Brentwood aldermen approve multiple design and engineering contracts, perfect municipal court MOU; several zoning items given first reading
Summary
At its April 6 meeting, the Brentwood Board of Aldermen approved multiple design and transportation-professional contracts, perfected an intergovernmental MOU to provide temporary municipal court administration to Webster Groves (Ordinance #5223), and held first readings or public hearings on several zoning and code amendments, including marijuana and data-center rules.
The Brentwood Board of Aldermen on April 6 approved a series of professional-services contracts and advanced several ordinances after a meeting that included multiple city-initiated text amendments and three conditional-use public hearings that concluded with no public opposition.
Mayor David Dimmitt opened the meeting at 6:00 p.m. and read a proclamation recognizing National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. He also announced a community clean-up scheduled for April 17 and addressed recent reporting about local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, saying the Brentwood Police Department "has no plans to enter into a 287(G) agreement with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." He added that, as with mutual-aid requests, officers would respond to requests for assistance to ensure officer and public safety when appropriate.
On financial and capital items, the Board approved several resolutions: a $112,695 design contract with SWT to update the Hanley Park comfort station and parking expansion design (Resolution 1584), a $106,700 design contract with Planning Design Studio for new gateway monument signage (Resolution 1585), and a set of traffic- and transportation-related professional-services contracts with CBB, HR Green, Horner & Shifrin, and TWM to provide traffic-impact-study and general transportation engineering services (Resolutions 1586–1588, 1590). The Board also approved an on-call crisis communications consultant agreement with Robyn Frankel (Resolution 1589).
Staff noted the SWT design requires redesign to meet updated FEMA base flood elevations and the 2024 International Code Council building code adoption; staff reported $50,000 previously allocated to the project and said the municipal park grant running through June 30, 2027 should still allow project completion under the revised schedule.
The Board handled the consent agenda and separately considered the Warrant List (Operating Budget expenditures totaling $444,292.88). The warrant list was removed from the consent agenda for separate motion; the Board later approved it by roll call with one abstention (Alderwoman Michele Goad disclosed a conflict).
The meeting included several public hearings and first readings: a comprehensive sign plan for the Veterinarian Emergency Group ER for Pets (Bill 6598), a conditional-use permit for Encore Nails & Foot Facials at 8044 Manchester Road (Bill 6599), a conditional-use permit for 2 Dog Fitness LLC d.b.a. Gateway Fitness at 824 Hanley Industrial Court (Bill 6600), a city-initiated text amendment regulating marijuana cultivation and infused-products manufacturing facilities in specified zoning districts (Bill 6601), and a text amendment to regulate data centers in the Light Industrial District (Bill 6602). Planning and Zoning Commission had recommended approval of the hearing items on March 11; no members of the public spoke in opposition during these hearings.
The Board perfected Bill No. 6603—a memorandum of understanding to provide temporary municipal court administration services to the City of Webster Groves—into ordinance form and approved it as Ordinance #5223. The measure authorizes the City to provide a Brentwood court administrator and/or clerk on a month-to-month basis (not to exceed three months) beginning March 25, 2026, or until Webster Groves appoints a permanent administrator.
The meeting concluded with a roll-call vote to enter closed session at 6:52 p.m. to discuss legal, real estate and contractual matters under RSMo 610.021 (1, 2, 12); the closed meeting adjourned at 7:59 p.m.
Votes at a glance: Resolution 1584 (SWT design contract) — approved by roll call (ayes: Tice, Goad, Sims, Gould, Harter, Erger; absent: Plufka, Lochmoeller); Resolution 1585 (gateway signage) — approved by roll call (same pattern); Resolutions 1586–1588, 1590 (traffic/transportation contracts) — each approved by roll call; Resolution 1589 (on-call crisis communications consultant) — approved by roll call; Warrant List ($444,292.88) — approved by roll call with one abstention (Goad); Bill 6603 (MOU with Webster Groves) — perfected and approved as Ordinance #5223 by roll call.
