(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.

Town governing

1 document
Town Charter Charter
Official source ↗

CRA governing

3 documents
CRA Bylaws Bylaws
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 →