Eatonville's government, on the record.
The Town Council and the Community Redevelopment Agency of Eatonville, Florida, meet in public and spend public money — but most residents never see how the decisions get made. Cheatonville documents what happens in those meetings, so you don't have to sit through every hour or dig through every packet.
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September 15, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
Neither public hearing was opened. The rental-homes ordinance was tabled after the Town's attorney told the Council that a 2023 state law reserves the regulation of residential rentals to the state, and that the draft could not lawfully be enacted as written. The farmers-market ordinance was tabled too, because members wanted a printed zoning map first. The night's only two resolutions were walk-on items that never appeared in the posted packet: a request for a federal audit of the Town's post office, and an emergency resolution hiring a new law firm for six months at $10,000 a month.
September 15, 2026 Town Council Workshop and Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
One evening, one ordinance, twice. At the 6:30 workshop the Council discusses a proposal to make rental homes in town register every year, pass an inspection and get a license. At 7:30 the same 13-page draft comes back for its first reading. The draft is a marked-up copy of a 2023 ordinance, and its signature page still lists that year's Council. Also on the agenda: farmers markets in a second commercial zone, a HostDime update, and two sets of summer minutes.
September 17, 2026 CRA Board Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
The CRA Board is asked to adopt all three of its big September documents in one night: a budget, a policy manual and amended bylaws. The budget has grown from $3.0 million in the September 14 workshop packet to $5.6 million, and almost all of the increase is tax money the CRA expects to receive and return. The manual is not attached to the resolution that adopts it. The bylaws are on the consent agenda, and their Exhibit A is a heading with nothing after it.
September 8, 2026 CRA Bylaws Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
On August 20 the CRA Board set its amended bylaws aside before the adopting resolution was even read, for legal cleanup of the marked-up copy. On September 8 the same document is back for another workshop. Set the two packets side by side and the twelve marked-up pages — the "redline," with new words underlined in red and deleted words struck through — are the same twelve pages, mark for mark, down to a typo. Nothing from the August 20 discussion is written into it, and no memo explains what the cleanup was or whether it happened.
September 9, 2026 Town Council First Budget Hearing — Agenda Breakdown
After six workshops, the Council takes its first votes on next year's budget. Two things are decided: the property-tax rate, and the budget ordinance on first reading. The rate is the same 7.2938 mills the Town has charged for more than a decade, but because property values rose, Florida's rules count it as a 6.38% tax increase this year. The General Fund that was $187,929 short a week ago now balances, mainly by counting $384,972 of the Town's reserves as next year's income — and it adds a new $95,000 Project Manager job at the same time. The second and final hearing is set for September 21.