(Ch)eatonville Independent
Civic Review

    The reading room

    The Town's own governing documents, made readable.

    The records our findings cite — the Charter, the CRA bylaws, policies, and agreements — reproduced as clean, readable pages instead of buried PDFs. Each is a faithful copy of a public record, marked as such, and links to the official version where one is hosted.

    Where a document was obtained through a public records request, that's noted in place of an online source. Florida statutes aren't reproduced here — findings quote the operative provision and link out to live state text.

    New to how this works? Start with the glossary

    Consent agenda, TIF, quorum, tabled, RFP — the terms that come up at Eatonville meetings, defined in plain language and linked to the governing document behind each one.

    Open the glossary →

    Town governing

    1 document
    Town Charter Charter
    Official source ↗

    CRA governing

    4 documents
    CRA Bylaws Bylaws
    Official source ↗
    2025 CRA Plan Update Plan
    Official source ↗
    Interlocal Agreement Agreement
    Official source ↗
    1997 Redevelopment Plan Plan
    Official source ↗

    Policies

    1 document
    Purchasing Policy Policy
    Obtained by records request

    Reproduced resolutions

    3 years

    Full text of the TOECRA board's adopted resolutions, transcribed and verified against the original page images, with genuine drafting errors preserved and marked [sic].

    2025 CRA Resolutions Verified transcription
    2024 CRA Resolutions Verified transcription
    2023 CRA Resolutions Verified transcription

    Financial records

    4 files

    The CRA's and Town's published budgets and annual report. These are the original files as hosted by the agencies — they open on the official sites in a new tab.

    Florida Statutes — reference

    The state laws that govern Town and CRA business. Unlike the documents above, these aren't reproduced here — they're indexed and annotated, and link to the official text on Online Sunshine.

    Browse the statutes index →