Town Council and Town Hall — Grant-Valkaria, Florida

Grant-Valkaria runs on a town council-administrator form of government, in which an elected seven-member Town Council sets policy and an appointed town administrator runs daily operations from Town Hall on Valkaria Road.

The structure comes from the town charter, which the Florida Legislature passed in 2006 as a local bill. The enrolled text of CS/HB 1297 creates the Town of Grant-Valkaria, provides its charter and provides for a town council-administrator form of government (Florida Senate, enrolled CS/HB 1297). The act also draws the town limits: the area lying mostly north of Senne Road, east of Babcock Road, south of the city limits of Malabar and west of the centerline of the Indian River channel.

Residents of Grant and Valkaria then ratified it at the polls on July 25, 2006. Election records show 1,149 ballots for incorporation and 591 against, a 66.03 percent approval, and 1,741 ballots cast out of 2,436 registered voters, a turnout of 71.47 percent (Supervisor of Elections results). The Supervisor of Elections office that ran that vote lists one of its offices at 450 Cogan Drive SE in Palm Bay.

The charter writes the town's rural purpose into its government. The oath of office has each elected official swear to work to preserve and promote the history, environment and rural character of Grant-Valkaria, and section 9 of the charter tells future development to keep private wells and septic systems in use and to protect the scenic highway status of U.S. 1 (charter, sections 6 and 9). The Grant-Valkaria Town Council page repeats the idea in its mission statements: in all actions, the rural character of the town is of primary importance (Town of Grant-Valkaria).

As of October 2026, the Grant-Valkaria Town Council is Mayor Lisette Kolar, Vice Mayor Mike Bradvarevic in Seat 5, and council members Tom Sammon, Rick Hood, Dan Faden, Brent Jackson and Dan Robino in Seats 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6.

The names and seat numbers come from the Grant-Valkaria staff directory, which lists every council member at the Town Hall number, 321-951-1380. The charter fixes the size of the body: the town council shall consist of six council members and one mayor, for a total of seven members, all elected at large, with council members holding seats numbered 1 through 6 (charter, section 2). Nobody represents a district; every Grant-Valkaria voter votes for every seat.

Grant-Valkaria pays its council nothing. Under the charter the seven members are volunteers without compensation, and the qualifying fee posted for the 2026 town race is $0 (elections page). Travel and other costs the council approves can be repaid.

Five of the seven Grant-Valkaria seats go before voters on the town ballot on November 3, 2026, and the elections page gives Seat 2 a two-year term and the other four a full four years. The Supervisor of Elections lists the Town of Grant-Valkaria mayor race and a council race with four seats available on its 2026 candidates page. Candidate filing and qualifying are a separate subject from how the council works. Last verified: October 13, 2026, on the Town of Grant-Valkaria website (staff directory and Town Council page).

The Grant-Valkaria Town Council meets on the second Wednesday of every month at 6pm in the Council Chambers at Town Hall, 1449 Valkaria Road, Grant-Valkaria, FL 32950 (Town Council page).

The Town Council calendar on the town site lists the next regular meetings for Wednesday, October 14, 2026, Wednesday, November 11, 2026 and Wednesday, December 9, 2026, each from 6 to 8pm. The town also lists Town Hall as closed on November 11, 2026 for Veterans Day, so the November date is one to confirm with the Town Clerk at 321-951-1380 (Town of Grant-Valkaria calendar notice). The Town Council page links to a Town Council Agendas/Minutes page.

The 2006 charter sets the voting math for the seven-member Grant-Valkaria council. Four members form both a majority and a quorum, and five votes make the supermajority some decisions require (charter, section 2). A smaller group may adjourn a meeting and compel absent members to attend under rules the council adopts.

Attendance is a charter duty, not a courtesy. Under the 2006 charter, a Grant-Valkaria council member who misses three regular meetings in a row, or four in any 12 months, without good cause can lose the seat, and the council itself rules on whether the cause was good. A vacancy is filled by majority vote of the remaining members, unless fewer than 6 months remain before the next regular election, in which case the council may leave the seat open.

Ordinances follow a public process set in the charter. Any member may introduce an ordinance at a regular or special meeting; the town clerk then distributes copies to each council member and the town administrator, files copies in the office of the town clerk at Town Hall, and publishes the ordinance with notice of the time and place of a public hearing.

In Grant-Valkaria the mayor chairs and votes on the Town Council, the vice mayor stands in when the mayor is absent, and the town administrator, appointed by the council, manages town departments and staff at Town Hall.

The charter gives the Grant-Valkaria mayor a chair, not a separate executive office. The mayor shall preside at meetings of the town council and is a regular voting member, recognized as head of town government for ceremonial purposes, for military law and for service of process, and speaks for Grant-Valkaria with other governments (charter, section 2). Lisette Kolar holds the office as of October 2026 (staff directory).

Each year the Grant-Valkaria council picks one of its own members as vice mayor, and nobody may hold the post two years running unless no colleague will take it. Mike Bradvarevic, who holds Seat 5, is listed as Vice Mayor in the October 2026 staff directory.

The working head of Grant-Valkaria town government is the town administrator. The council, by majority vote, shall appoint a town administrator for an indefinite term and set the administrator's pay, and the administrator also prescribes the town's accounting procedures under the finance section (charter, sections 3 and 5). Jason Mahaney is listed as Town Administrator, and Jessica Keenan as Town Clerk/Finance Director, on the Town of Grant-Valkaria staff directory. The clerk keeps the official record of ordinances and resolutions and handles election qualifying for town offices.

Other Grant-Valkaria staff in the same directory include a Building Division Manager, an Assistant Building Division Manager, a Permit Tech/Administrative Assistant, an Administrative Assistant and a Code Compliance Officer, which shows how small the full-time staff at Town Hall is.

Grant-Valkaria Town Hall at 1449 Valkaria Road is open 7:30am to 5:30pm Monday through Thursday and closed on Fridays, and the town lists building permitting, finance, code compliance and road services among its departments (Town Council page; town sitemap).

The town site gives Town Hall a main phone line, 321-951-1380, and a fax line, 321-956-5660. Its sitemap lists the town's departments and services: Building Department and Permitting, Finance, Code Compliance and Enforcement, Road Repair / Grading / Signage and Right-of-Way Mowing, along with forms and applications, ordinances and resolutions, public notices, bids and job openings.

Grant-Valkaria also has several boards and committees. The sitemap lists agendas and minutes for the Planning and Zoning Board, the Zoning Board of Appeals, the Code Enforcement Board, the Trails and Greenways Committee and a Charter Review Committee. Charter amendments still go to Grant-Valkaria voters: the charter lets electors propose an amendment by a petition signed by 20 percent of registered electors (charter, section 8).

Some services residents see every week come through town contracts or county agencies rather than town staff. Waste Pro collects Grant-Valkaria regular trash on Tuesday and Friday, household recycling on Thursday and yard waste on Monday (Trash and Recycling Services). For law enforcement, the town lists the Brevard County Sheriff's Office South Precinct, with a non-emergency number of 321-952-6371 and an office listed at 1515 Sarno Rd in Melbourne (Brevard County Sheriff page on the town site). Fire rescue and mosquito control are also Brevard County services listed on the town site, and its community pages cover Valkaria Airport, the libraries and the Indian River Lagoon.