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City sets capital project plan Staff Writer
BRENTWOOD City leaders have set the municipality’s five-year infrastructure and capital planning needs. The 105-project outline, which lays out roadway, parks and trails, water, wastewater and community facilities improvements, includes 56 city projects, 18 future improvement endeavors and 31 development enhancements, totaling $253.5 million in city projects. “The preparation of the (Capital Improvement Program) plan has been a collaborative effort between staff from all the various departments. It began many months ago, resulting in the document,” said Brentwood Business Services Manager Sonia Agostini. The plan, which the city uses to identify and align capital improvement needs, financing and timing, forecasts about
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The expansion of the city’s wastewater treatment plant is one of several priority projects included in the city’s recently adopted five-year capital project plan. $99.8 million in wastewater improvements, $73.6 million in roadway upgrades, $42.5 million
in community facility enhancements, $34.3 million in water advancements and $3 million in
parks and trail betterments over see Capital page 19A
Brentwood honors its fallen on Memorial Day by Jake Menez Correspondent
BRENTWOOD The atmosphere was reverent Monday afternoon, even as a nearby delivery truck stopped to observe the ceremony taking place at the Brentwood Veterans Memorial Building to commemorate Memorial Day. The event, one of two, drew a crowd of both veterans and citizens who wished to honor and show appreciation to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Brentwood’s veterans center serves as a post of the American
Legion, the largest association dedicated to supporting wartime veterans. The current post commander, Michael Clement, served as host of the Memorial Day event. Clement, an Army combat veteran who served in Desert Storm, reminisced about the history of the building, which has been around since before his own youth, which was quite a while ago he admitted with a chuckle. His passion for the Legion’s mission statement was evident as he addressed the gathered crowd and gave tribute to veterans he had known who were no longer with us. see Memorial Day page 19A
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Boy Scout Troop 2020 members raise the flag at Brentwood Veterans Memorial Center.
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BRENTWOOD The Brentwood City Council put the brakes on a planned Fourth of July parade during a special meeting on Tuesday, June 1, and asked city staff to come up with a new plan for the holiday. The city put out a press release last week stating the Parks and Recreation Department would host the fourth annual Brentwood Classic Fourth of July Parade next month, but city council members expressed concern and disapproval during the special meeting on Tuesday and voted to create a different, yet-tobe-defined event in its place. Councilmember Jovita Mendoza said at the beginning of the meeting that there was one COVID-19 related death in Brentwood in the last week and there is still an average of three cases a day locally. The city’s vaccination rate is currently 50.6 percent. “I don’t know why we can’t push this off a year,” said Councilmember Karen Rarey. “We have two parades coming this year where it’s colder and more people will be vaccinated. I think we are setting ourselves up to have a spike in our community and shutting businesses down and I would hate to see that, especially since we are getting to the point where we can open up.” City staff defended the idea, see Parade page 19A
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