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Before the meeting — what's on the agenda, in plain language. After it — a recap of what the body actually did, with the recorded votes.
Each Eatonville Town Council and CRA meeting gets an agenda breakdown before it happens and a recap once it's over. Past agendas stay available in the archive.
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1 meetingOctober 15, 2026 CRA Board Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
The amended bylaws return on the consent agenda with a sentence no earlier posted draft had: firing the CRA's Executive Director would take "five or more votes" of the seven-member Board. On September 17, a motion to fire him failed 3–4. The packet credits the changes to the CRA's lawyer and the Board, but the public record does not show who proposed this sentence or when it was written. Requests directors made on the record in August and September are not in the text.
Past
most recent firstOctober 6, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
The fee waiver for the CRA's four homes never came up for a vote. It was removed from the agenda at the start of the meeting, and the Town's new counsel later said she is setting up a meeting with the CRA's attorney about it. The Council unanimously ordered staff and counsel to report within 14 business days on how water and sewer bills have been calculated, after the sponsor declined to extend the deadline. Farmers markets in the C-3 commercial district passed their first reading, also unanimously. The second reading is October 20, which the Deputy Town Clerk said will be held at the Denton Johnson Center.
September 21, 2026 Town Council Second Budget Hearing — Agenda Breakdown
Tonight the Council makes next year's budget and tax rate final. The rate stays at 7.2938 mills, the same as every year since at least 2013. The budget worksheets and salary schedule are the same pages the Council saw at the first hearing on September 9; only the page numbers changed. What is new is a 52-page budget book. It is the first document in this year's hearing packets to show the CRA's budget, and that CRA page is the version from before the CRA board's September 17 vote: it still counts the $892,083 the board took out of its own budget. The Town's side of the same money has not changed: the Town still budgets $232,136 for its CRA payment.
September 17, 2026 CRA Board Meeting — Recap
A walk-on resolution to fire Executive Director Michael Johnson without cause failed 3–4 on a roll call. It was not in the posted packet, and citizen participation had already closed. The Board adopted its budget 6–1 after removing the $892,083.46 the budget listed as owed by the Town. Its General Counsel had told directors that adopting the budget with that line in it would acknowledge the debt. The bylaws and the policy manual were both tabled.
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 14, 2026 CRA Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
Two documents, no votes. The first is a new 28-page rulebook, with 21 blank forms, that would let the Executive Director approve purchases up to $25,000 alone. Today's bylaws require a Board vote above $7,500, and the bylaws rewrite the Board is still discussing would require the Chair's signature too. The second is the agency's proposed budget for the year starting October 1: $3,000,583, nearly double this year's. Of that, $892,083 is money the CRA says the Town still owes it from 1997–2006, and $1,700,000 is a bank loan.
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.