City of Melbourne Departments Guide — Melbourne, Florida

The City of Melbourne's online Departments directory lists 12 units: the City Attorney's Office, City Clerk's Office, City Manager's Office, Code Compliance Division, Community Development, Engineering, Financial Services, Fire Department, Human Resources, Parks, Recreation and Golf, the Police Department, and Public Works and Utilities. According to the city's Human Resources page, those departments together employ more than 900 people serving a city that reports 88,499 residents (Bureau of Economic and Business Research, 2025) over 51.59 square miles as of March 2026, per the About the City page.

Most Melbourne departments share one building, City Hall at 900 East Strawbridge Avenue, with a main switchboard at 321-608-7000. The floor plan is a quick guide to the organization: the City Manager, City Clerk and City Attorney work on the fifth floor; Community Development and Engineering share the third floor; Code Compliance and Human Resources are on the second floor. The Police Department is the main exception, headquartered at the Joseph Pellicano Law Enforcement Center on West NASA Boulevard.

Last verified: October 8, 2026, on the City of Melbourne website.

The Melbourne City Council hires two officers directly, a city manager and a city attorney, according to the About the City page. As of October 8, 2026, the City Manager's Office names Jenni Lamb as City Manager. The office describes the job as carrying out Council policy and decisions, preparing the budget for Council consideration, serving as the Council's chief adviser and being responsible for all City personnel; its line is 321-608-7200. In practice that places every department in this directory, from Fire to Parks, under the manager's administrative chain.

The City Clerk's Office is led by City Clerk Kevin McKeown, named on the office page as of October 8, 2026. In Melbourne the clerk is a charter officer appointed by and working under the administrative direction of the City Manager. The office keeps all City records, supports the Mayor and City Council, superintends city elections as qualifying officer, issues special activity permits for parades, festivals and street closures, issues animal permits for animals other than dogs and cats kept outside a residence, and recruits volunteers for city boards. It also trains city employees on the Sunshine Law and the Public Records Law. Its number is 321-608-7220.

The City Attorney's Office advises the Melbourne City Council, every city department, its boards and committees, and the three community redevelopment agencies. The office states that it does not give legal advice to residents, since its only client is the City of Melbourne, and it points callers to The Florida Bar's Lawyer Referral Service at 850-561-5600. The office line is 321-608-7240.

Three Melbourne departments split the work of growth and construction. Community Development administers land use policy under the Comprehensive Plan along with zoning and land development regulations, and it houses Planning and Zoning, the Community Redevelopment Areas, Economic Development, Housing and Urban Improvement, Historic Preservation and affordable housing development. The department reports 16 full-time city employees. Its planning line is 321-608-7500, and Housing and Urban Improvement answers at 321-608-7530.

Engineering reviews construction plans, runs the Melbourne Stormwater Utility and illicit discharge program, tracks the Indian River Lagoon Basin Management Action Plan, manages capital improvement projects and construction bidding, and handles traffic engineering, signals, signage and pavement markings. It also assigns street addresses, issues right-of-way use permits, calculates water, sewer and transportation impact fees, and lists an Alternative Corridor Evaluation Study for a Southwest Trails Norfolk Parkway Extension. Stormwater questions go to 321-608-7341 and signals to 321-608-7370.

The Code Compliance Division completes the trio in Melbourne. It holds the Building Section, which permits and inspects construction, and Code Enforcement, which handles property upkeep and nuisance complaints, both reachable at 321-608-7900. The same second floor office keeps Flood Zone Maps, Elevation Certificates and Letters of Map Revision for Melbourne properties.

Financial Services is the Melbourne department for money. The city says it oversees the budget, purchasing, utility billing, accounting and payroll divisions, and it is also home to Business Tax Receipts, the Procurement Division and pension information. The department's main number is 321-608-7010. Water and sewer bills for Melbourne customers are therefore a Financial Services matter, while the pipes and plants behind those bills belong to Public Works and Utilities.

Human Resources handles personnel and labor relations for more than 900 Melbourne employees and posts job openings and job descriptions. It works from the second floor of City Hall and answers at 321-608-7800.

The Public Works and Utilities Department describes Melbourne as a regional provider of drinking water and lists its other duties as wastewater collection and treatment, reclaimed water, streets and stormwater management, plus the city's trash and recycling contract. Its office line is 321-608-5000, open 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Water line breaks, reclaimed water leaks and sewer backups go to 321-608-5130 during working hours and to 321-255-4622 after hours.

Parks, Recreation and Golf runs Melbourne's golf courses, athletic fields, playgrounds, fishing piers, boat ramps, cemeteries, tennis and pickleball courts and swimming pools. Its building list includes the Melbourne Auditorium, the Front Street Civic Center, the Eau Gallie Civic Center, and the Wickham Park, Joseph N. Davis, Crane and Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. community centers. The department line is 321-608-7400, and it also stages the MelBOOM Fourth of July fireworks. Its two municipal courses, listed on the city golf page, are Crane Creek Reserve Golf Course on West New Haven Avenue and Harbor City Golf Course on Lake Washington Road, which the city notes was formerly Mallards Landing Golf Course.

The Melbourne Fire Department became an ISO Class 1 department effective November 1, 2022, and the city says it was the first fire department in Brevard County to earn that rating. Every station is licensed in advanced life support and staffed by paramedics, and the department takes part in the Brevard County Mutual Aid program and the Statewide Emergency Response agreement. Emergencies go to 9-1-1; the non-emergency line is 321-608-6731, option 1, and administration is 321-608-6000.

The Melbourne Police Department works from the Joseph Pellicano Law Enforcement Center at 250 W. NASA Boulevard, shares the 321-608-6731 non-emergency number, and runs programs such as a vacation house check for residents who are away. Policy for all of these departments is set by the Melbourne City Council, led as of October 8, 2026 by Mayor Paul Alfrey.