21 JAN 2025 Board of Supervisors (BOS) Meeting
- BVMB Board
- Jan 26
- 3 min read
Time stamp comments during the BOS meeting and subsequent remarks:
VFW Commander Travis Martin's Comments at time 5:03:00
Supervisor Anderson's question to Chief McAlister at time 5:7:57 & 5:11:00
Chief McAlister's response 5:11:15
Subsequent remarks after VFW Commander Martin's comments:
Supervisor Anderson
"OK, But and do you have anything about the building with regard to where we're building? Sort of that relationship, you wanna just give us a 30 second summary in case someone's tuning in and it's not familiar with."
Chief McAlister
"What we're doing there, certainly just a little bit of history to remind the board and the public. This location in Brentwood has been a fire station for many, many years, decades, very long time. We've completed the demolition of the old fire station. The plans have been drawn for the new fire station. We went through a competitive process to award a contract to a design build entity. That contract has been awarded. They are on board. We are at the phase where we are taking the project to the Brentwood Planning Commission. On February 18th is when we expect to have our hearing in front of the Planning Commission, uh really, to talk about fit with the downtown environment, we have a very nice brick building that's gonna fit very well within downtown Brentwood. We worked with planning staff on architectural features, parking spaces, trees, bicycle parking out front, all of that, so it fits in that, downtown environment. There's a net add of parking spaces to downtown because this is going to be a 2 Bay fire station, whereas the old station was four or five bays wide. So we're giving back some parking to downtown. We would expect a positive reception from the Planning Commission when we get there next month and at that point, we intend to submit for building permit and begin construction later this year."
Supervisor Anderson
"And how do our plans affect the Veterans building?"
Chief McAlister
"The Veterans Building. There was a small piece of unused property that did not contain any building, no structure. It was gravel about 10 feet wide that was deeded from the county to the fire district. That was included as part of our project."
Supervisor Anderson
"And that's what this gentleman was speaking of, of taking away that veteran's property. Which are veterans buildings are owned by the county and we have a whole process of ensuring that we maintain our veterans buildings and many times enhance them and it's always balancing public safety. In this case being able to build a new fire station while taking a little bit of that gravel area to really make. Police station. So just wanted that clarification, Diane." He did.
Supervisor Burgess
"Please. I just, uh, Monica, I don't know if you have it at your fingertips, but we last year invested a lot more money into our veterans halls, including the Brentwood."
Monica
"We did and I wanna say it was either 3 or $2,000,000 is what was allocated into our veterans facilities."
Supervisor Burgess
"The Brentwood Veterans Hall is completely safe we're not, nothing's going away. We're just using a parking lot and we've offered to help them with storage and more parking lot, so we appreciate our veterans."
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