County Commission Districts — Brevard County, Florida

Palm Bay is split between County Commission District 3 and District 5, while Malabar and Grant-Valkaria sit wholly in District 3 and Melbourne spreads across Districts 3, 4 and 5.

Brevard County Commission seats are tied to voting precincts. The District Maps page of the Supervisor of Elections lists every precinct in each district: District 3 holds 27 precincts in the 300 series, from 300 to 329, District 4 the 400 series and District 5 the 500 series. The City and Town Maps page lists the precincts inside each city and town. Matching the two lists gives the commission district for every South Brevard municipality.

Palm Bay has 16 precincts on the city list: seven fall in District 3 and nine in District 5. The Palm Bay precincts in the 300 series sit in District 3, and the 500 series precincts, among them 510, 527 and 534, sit in District 5. Melbourne, with 21 precincts, is the only South Brevard city touching three commission districts: six precincts in District 3, seven in District 4 and eight in District 5. Grant-Valkaria is a single precinct, 302, in District 3, alongside all five Malabar precincts.

Unincorporated Micco and Barefoot Bay do not appear on the City and Town Maps page, because that page lists only municipalities. For an address in Micco, Barefoot Bay or another unincorporated part of South Brevard, the precinct printed on the voter information card, or the Voter Information Lookup offered by the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections, identifies the commission district through the same precinct lists.

In October 2026 the Brevard County Commission is Rita Pritchett (District 1), Tom Goodson (District 2), Kim Adkinson (District 3), Rob Feltner (District 4) and Thad Altman (District 5), according to the Supervisor of Elections.

The roster above comes from the County Government Officials page of the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections, which also lists County Manager Jim Liesenfelt as the appointed head of county administration. Each commissioner is listed as Republican, and the salary shown for every seat is $60,272.98 as of 01/01/2025.

For Palm Bay residents the two district offices that matter are in Melbourne and Indialantic. Kim Adkinson's District 3 office is at 1311 East New Haven Avenue in Melbourne, and Thad Altman's District 5 office is at 150 5th Avenue in Indialantic. Rob Feltner, whose District 4 takes in the 400 series precincts in Melbourne, Satellite Beach and Indian Harbour Beach, keeps his office at 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way, Building C, Suite 214.

Each Brevard County commissioner is elected only by the voters of the district, so a Palm Bay voter in precinct 527 helps choose the District 5 commissioner and no other.

The Brevard County Charter sets this rule in Section 2.1: the Board of County Commissioners has five members, there are five County Commission electoral districts, and each district elects one commissioner. The Supervisor of Elections roster marks every seat as elected from its own district. Section 2.3 adds that commissioners must live in the district they represent; a commissioner who moves out forfeits the seat, unless redistricting moved the line.

Terms are four years and are staggered. Under Section 100.041, Florida Statutes, odd-numbered districts are elected in each year that is a multiple of 4 and even-numbered districts in even years that are not, with each term beginning on the second Tuesday after the general election. Charter Section 2.4 limits a Brevard County commissioner to two consecutive terms. On that calendar, Districts 3 and 5, the two Palm Bay seats, are next on the ballot on November 7, 2028, the date the Supervisor of Elections lists for both.

The 2026 cycle covers Districts 1, 2 and 4. The 2026 Candidates page shows Tyler Sirois qualified unopposed for District 2 and Rob Feltner elected in the primary in District 4, which included Melbourne precincts in the 400 series; the District 1 race in north Brevard goes to the November 3, 2026 general election. Early voting for that election runs Monday, October 19 to Saturday, October 31, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekdays and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekends, and Brevard voters may use any early voting site regardless of address. The Supervisor of Elections lists South Brevard offices at 450 Cogan Drive SE in Palm Bay and 1515 Sarno Road in Melbourne.

The Brevard County Charter requires the commission to hold its regular and special meetings at the Viera Government Center, with any meeting elsewhere in the county announced in a daily newspaper at least one week ahead.

For a resident of Palm Bay or Malabar, the Viera Government Center is the place set by charter for regular and special meetings of the full commission. Charter Section 2.8.3 lets the board meet specially at another place in the county, but only after notice of the time and place, with an agenda of all matters to be acted upon, runs in a daily newspaper of general circulation at least one week ahead.

The organizational meeting sets the year's leadership. Charter Section 2.8.1 places it on the third Tuesday after the first Monday in November; in 2026 the first Monday is November 2, so the third Tuesday after it is November 17, 2026, the same day the Supervisor of Elections lists as the end of the current District 1, 2 and 4 terms. At that meeting the board elects a Chair and Vice-Chair. The charter bars a Chair from consecutive re-election and bars the next Chair from coming from the same district, so the gavel moves between districts, including the Palm Bay seats in Districts 3 and 5.

Votes follow fixed arithmetic. With five seats on the Brevard County Commission, a quorum and the majority needed to adopt, amend or repeal an ordinance are both three commissioners, because Section 2.10.1 counts the total number of commissioners rather than those present. Resolutions and motions need only a majority of those present.

Brevard County redraws its commission districts in the first odd-numbered year after each census, through a committee whose plan the Brevard County Commission must approve or reject without amendment.

Charter Section 2.2 asks that committee to keep districts contiguous and as nearly equal in population as practicable, and to preserve municipalities such as Palm Bay, Melbourne and Malabar from fragmentation where practicable. Redistricting more often than once a decade is allowed only when a district's population has changed by more than 25 percent since the last map. State law adds a timing limit: Section 124.01, Florida Statutes bars changes to commission district boundaries in the 270 days before a regular general election, and bars lines drawn to favor or disfavor a candidate based on residential address.

Palm Bay shows the practical limit of the municipality rule. The city's 16 precincts on the City and Town Maps page straddle two districts, while the smaller Town of Malabar, with its five single-member town council precincts, stays inside District 3. The Brevard Public Schools board uses the same five precinct groups: the District Maps page lists identical precinct numbers for School Board Districts 1 to 5 and County Commission Districts 1 to 5.

A Brevard County commissioner votes on countywide policy at the Viera Government Center and staffs a district office, while the County Manager runs county departments.

The Brevard County Charter draws that line in Section 1.5: the Board of County Commissioners adopts policy and the County Manager executes it. The commission appoints the County Manager and the County Attorney under Section 2.9.1 and, under Section 2.9.3, makes the final budgetary determinations and appropriations for county operations. Section 2.9.10 also gives residents a formal route to the board: an individual or group may submit a written recommendation each year, and the County Commission must vote on it within 120 days of receipt.

For South Brevard addresses, constituent contact runs through the District 3 office on East New Haven Avenue in Melbourne and the District 5 office on 5th Avenue in Indialantic, plus the District 4 office in Viera for Melbourne's 400 series precincts. City services in Palm Bay, Melbourne, West Melbourne and Malabar remain with each city government, and Charter Section 1.7 makes a municipal ordinance prevail over a county ordinance to the extent of any conflict.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections website and in the Brevard County Charter on Municode.