Eatonville Town Council
The Town Council is the elected governing body of the Town of Eatonville, Florida — five members who adopt the budget, pass the resolutions and ordinances that govern the town, and meet in public at Town Hall, 307 E Kennedy Blvd. The same five members also sit on the board of the town's Community Redevelopment Agency.
Every Council meeting covered here gets an agenda breakdown before it happens and a recap with the recorded votes after. The Town's governing documents — including the Town Charter — are reproduced in the Library.
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2 meetingsAugust 18, 2026 Town Council Budget Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
The second budget workshop pairs a slide deck — four departments presenting their FY2027 plans — with the budget workbook from the first workshop. Where the slides give totals, they don't match the workbook's; and the workbook's margins are worth reading on their own: the CRA's rows are marked "not presenting," and the forecast lands the General Fund on a to-the-dollar balanced budget the packet never explains.
August 18, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
No resolutions and no award votes this time. The evening is presentations and one discussion item: Councilwoman Randolph wants the Council to review the amendment chain that moved HostDime's deadline from 2019 to 2025, and to consider a third amendment — with daily penalties of up to $500, double the current rate. The packet's own timeline of those amendments does not match the agreements attached to it.
Council meeting coverage
most recent firstAugust 11, 2026 Town Council Budget Workshop — Agenda Breakdown
This is the first of the Town's budget workshops for the fiscal year starting October 1. The packet includes five years of budget-versus-actual numbers, and several accounts are already running far above or far below what was budgeted.
August 4, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
The Council tabled Resolution 2026-41 (Hungerford/SPLC lawsuit support) a second time — the fourth sitting for a version of this resolution in seven weeks — voted to engage TG Law as Town Attorney, and appointed Attorney Greg Jackson as Special Magistrate. HostDime did not appear for its scheduled presentation, prompting a dais exchange over the Town's utility-reimbursement commitment to the company.
August 4, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
Two hires, one bidder each. The Council discusses both legal-services proposals at a 6:30 workshop and votes on both at 7:30 the same night, along with the tabled Hungerford transparency resolution, back for a vote, and a new Heritage Tourism District.
July 21, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Recap
A full-quorum Council heard a walk-on update from Dr. Phillips Charities, passed a title change for the Records Coordinator 3-2, let a related salary resolution die for lack of a second, and tabled a third resolution supporting the Hungerford Sunshine Law lawsuit — the first two versions failed on recorded votes.
July 21, 2026 Town Council Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
A workshop on property-tax ballot messaging and frozen HUD grants leads into a regular meeting where a third Hungerford transparency resolution comes back for a vote.
July 7, 2026 Regular Council Meeting — Recap
Four members at the dais, one on Zoom without a vote. A corrective ordinance passed, the consent agenda got tabled, and two of the night's most contested items — the Development Review Committee and support for the Hungerford lawsuit — both failed 2-2.
July 7, 2026 Regular Council Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
Two meetings back to back — a 6:30 workshop and the 7:30 Council meeting. Here's a plain-language walk through what's in the packet, and what's worth a question before anyone votes.
June 16, 2026 Regular Council Meeting — Recap
What the Council did on each agenda item, with the recorded votes.
June 16, 2026 Regular Council Meeting — Agenda Breakdown
What's on the agenda for the June 16 Regular Town Council meeting — each item in plain language, and what's worth watching.