Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A vote in last night's meeting made it possible to put the discussion on the agenda of a future meeting. Seemayer's pension, when he reaches 60, is what's at stake.
Close to a hundred Brentwood residents were ready for something to go their way at the board of aldermen meeting last night. They got it at the very end, when alderwoman Maureen Saunders made a motion in an almost “oh by the way” fashion, in the meeting at the Brentwood Recreation Center. “And another thing,” she said, after agreeing to a time change for a joint ward meeting, “In listening to the residents, I am going to go ahead and make a motion that this board pursue civil action against Chris Seemayer.” When Seemayer was found guilty last year of embezzling $30,000 from the city of Brentwood to pay gambling debts, he was allowed to resign instead of being fired, making it possible for him to get sick and vacation pay, and receive an …
Friday, September 7, 2012
The Hancock amendment had reduced the library tax over the years, which complicated the increase approved by voters in August.
Brentwood residents will pay the tax they were told they would pay when they passed Brentwood’s Proposition L on August 7. That may seem obvious, and right, but getting there wasn't easy. The decision was the result of heated discussions at the Ways and Means Committee meeting Tuesday and a quickly-called library board meeting Wednesday. At issue, was the definition of the rate residents are currently paying. They are paying approximately 15 cents per $100 of valuation, but it could have been more. That’s because the same year Brentwood voters last approved a library tax levy, 1984, the Hancock Amendment went into effect, which rolled back taxes. So while voters approved a 25-cent rate, they never actually paid it. So in August, voters …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Public Works chairman Keith Robertson suggested combining all the city functions at what is now the rec center in a discussion on the future of the Brentwood Recreation Complex.
The Aug. 20 Brentwood Board of Aldermen meeting started an hour early to devote time to hopefully come closer to a decision on the Brentwood Recreation Center. The recreation center is decades old and in need of repair. The city is attempting to decide what to do with the building. The process has taken years. The Brentwood Public Works Committee: chairman Keith Robertson, Andy Leahy, Cindy Manestar and Maureen Saunders talked through the subject with Mayor Pat Kelly and other aldermen, and in the end, the entire board passed a motion similar to the agreement made at the Public Works Committee meeting on Aug. 8. Public Works Committee chairman Keith Robertson began by saying the committee discussed the possibility of combining the …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Some new ideas came up, including moving city hall functions and the library to the rec center, and moving the police department back to the old City Hall.
If you’re a Brentwood resident, hopefully sooner rather than later, expect a concise survey on your opinions for a new recreation center. That was the result of the Brentwood public works committee’s discussion on Aug. 8. Committee chair Keith Robertson laid out the known facts, then added the possibility of including city hall functions into the new rec center, including the library. “Accounting sense, it doesn’t make sense to have city hall any longer, where it is and the way it functions now,” he said. Maureen Saunders said she’d like to go back to the residents with a survey. She said the gym and the pool would be cost-prohibitive. She said she’d like to see a rec center for teens. “Alderman Kramer has been championing a gym. What sort…
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The city currently has no regulations, and the public works committee agreed to have regulations drawn up by city staff, to go to planning and zoning.
A food truck debate has raged for months in Maplewood, but on Wednesday, with little fanfare, Brentwood took the first step to allowing them on a regular basis. Public Works Committee members Andy Leahy, Cindy Manestar, Keith Robertson and Maureen Saunders approved a motion Wednesday to send a proposal to planning and zoning to allow food trucks, with regulations. City planner Ellen Rottjakob said the city has had requests for food trucks, and so far they’ve been handled with a special use permit. "The increased demand for food trucks in communites is something that's been in the news," she said. "Communities that surround us have taken action and our current ordinance does not really provide much guidance." She said the planning and …
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Brentwood residents came one after the other to express their dismay over the salaries and health benefits of their elected officials.
The Brentwood Board of Aldermen met Monday night in a multipurpose room at the Brentwood Rec Center, and it was just big enough for the almost 60 residents that came to find out about a benefit their mayor and some of the aldermen had: city-paid health insurance. When Brentwood’s three newest aldermen came into office in April, they did so without city-paid insurance, a benefit that Brentwood aldermen have had access to since the early 1990s. Mayor Pat Kelly said in the board of aldermen meeting Monday night that the health insurance for elected officials is being phased out, simply by not offering it to incoming officials. In the public comment portions of the board of aldermen meeting Monday night, Brentwood residents came to the podium …
The first hour of Monday's board of aldermen meeting was devoted to the recreation complex. In the end they voted unanimously to let the Public Works Committee work on it one more time, before the full board takes it up again at the July meeting.
Two issues brought 50 to 60 Brentwood residents to a multi-purpose room at the Brentwood Recreation Complex Monday night for the June Board of Alderman meeting. The meeting was a week early because mayor Pat Kelly and city administrator Bola Akande couldn’t make the scheduled June 18 meeting, and it was at the Recreation Center because the court had the room in City Hall Monday night. It was appropriate to meet in a room with windows overlooking the ice rink. It was the topic of discussion the first hour of the meeting. Mayor Pat Kelly had scheduled the discussion because he said he wants the alderman to get to a motion on the future of the recreation center. He said he’s concerned that they can’t seem to all get on the same page. “That’s…
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Board of Aldermen agrees to jump-start next meeting with discussion about what to do with the city’s aging rec complex, starting with its ice rink.
Meeting date and time changed to June 11 at 6 p.m. at Brentwood City Hall.
Brentwood Mayor Pat Kelly just wanted an idea of where the board of aldermen stood with regard to the Brentwood ice rink at Monday night’s meeting. And he wanted to limit their talk on the topic to 20 minutes at the public meeting. What occurred, however, was a spirited, almost contentious discussion that took almost twice that amount of time — with no decision rendered, and not even a straw vote taken. “We done surveys, plural,” Kelly said. “We’ve done committees. I think what it comes down to is that the board (of aldermen) really needs to make some decisions in order to give staff direction as to where we want to go.” Specifically, the board needs to decide whether or not to keep the city’s venerated, but maintenance-heavy ice rink that…
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Three first-time aldermen and one incumbent were sworn in at Monday's meeting.
Following a sometimes-tumultuous aldermanic race in Brentwood's Ward 1, a close one in Ward 4, and two uncontested races, the four aldermen were sworn in. City administrator Bola Akande read the certified election results, then Maureen Saunders (Ward 1), Cindy Manestar (Ward 2), Andy Leahy (Ward 3) and Patrick Toohey (Ward 4) were sworn in, and walked behind the platform and took their seats. See more photos of the ceremony at Maplewood-Brentwood Patch Facebook, and Like it to keep up with all the news. Barbara Clements was recognized for her 19 years as alderman, and Mike Marshall for his 11 years of service. Lorraine Krewson couldn't make the meeting because of illness, so her daughters accepted the recognition for her. Krewson was city …
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Ward 3 incumbent Andy Leahy also won re-election in an uncontested race.
In the first election since the string of controversies that rocked Brentwood in 2011, three newcomers are set to join the city's Board of Aldermen. Maureen Saunders (Ward 1), Cindy Manestar (Ward 2) and Patrick Toohey (Ward 4) all won seats on the board during Tuesday's municipal election. Andy Leahy, an incumbent in Ward 3, won an uncontested re-election bid. Each candidate was elected to a four-year term. (Get real-time updates about Brentwood City Hall and other news on our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/MaplewoodBrentwoodPatch) Saunders, who won with 66 percent of the votes cast in her ward, entered the public eye following two stories of financial mismanagement at city hall: former city administrator Chris Seemayer's theft of city …
Geoff Peterson
7:15 pm on Sunday, September 16, 2012
Well, it looks like the Library's website posted the most recent meeting minutes (http://brentwood.lib.mo.us/node/1725). Not sure how to frame those minutes in context of the contradicting allegations in this thread, the Library tax article thread and the Board of Alderman and Ways and Means minutes. Anyone care to take a stab at it? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? more ›