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By David Walsh

By MATT MASTERS

The Brentwood City Commission met for their regularly scheduled meeting on Monday night where they approved an amendment to an ordinance to ban scooter rentals.

The item was first read during their Sept. 9 meeting, and will impact short term scooter rentals such as the popular Bird or Lime scooters that can be rented by a user and left in a drop-off location, or more commonly wherever the user wants to leave the vehicle.

Cities like Nashville have become congested with scooters over the past year, resulting in injuries and deaths.

City Attorney Kristen Corn said that the ban would also include bikes, scooters, electric bikes and other small vehicles that are offered by companies for short-term rentals and do not require a bicycle rack or docking station, but would not impact scooters that are privately owned and not intended as rentals.

The commission also unanimously passed two items as part of the consent agenda, Resolution 2019-08 authorizing an alteration to the OSRD development plan for the Traditions Subdivision as well as the approval to purchase two-way radios for the Parks Department.

Vice Mayor Ken Travis also read a proclamation recognizing Fire Prevention Week which was accepted by Brentwood Fire and Rescue Chief Brian Goss. 

The commission deferred the appointment of a new member to the Historic Commission after several votes that all resulted in a 3 to 3 split.

Finally, City Manager Kirk Bednar presented a report on recent debt funding obligations (State Form CT-0253) as required by state law.

The report outlined that the city recently completed a successful $14,445,000 G.O. Bond issuance. Eight bids were received for the bond issue which will provide funding for the Police Headquarters building project. The lowest and best bid was submitted by FTN Financial Capital Markets with a true interest cost of 2.3186078%.

Resolution 2019-79 and Resolution 2019-80, authorizing the issuance of not to exceed $15,000,000 in general obligation public improvement bonds, was previously approved by the City Commission on August 12.

The commission will meet again on Oct. 14. Mayor Rhea Little was the only person not present as he is out of town.

Before the City Commission meeting the Beer Board met and unanimously approved a request from Westshore Pizza Brentwood, Inc. for on premises beer sales. The business recently changed ownership.