City council members — Palm Bay, Florida

As of October 12, 2026, the Palm Bay City Council is Mayor Rob Medina, Deputy Mayor Mike Jaffe, and Councilmen Mike Hammer, Chandler Langevin and Kenny Johnson, the five members listed by the City of Palm Bay (Mayor / City Council).

The City of Palm Bay page states that the City Council is comprised of five members and gives each a seat email and a term. Hammer holds Seat 2, Langevin Seat 3, Johnson Seat 4 and Jaffe Seat 5, and the mayor is elected to his own office rather than to a numbered council seat (Mayor / City Council).

The same five names answered the roll at the March 19, 2026 regular meeting in the Palm Bay City Hall Council Chambers, where the minutes list Rob Medina as Mayor, Mike Jaffe as Deputy Mayor and Kenny Johnson, Mike Hammer and Chandler Langevin as Councilmembers (March 19, 2026 minutes).

The council sits beside three appointed charter officers. At that Palm Bay meeting the roll also listed City Manager Matthew Morton, City Attorney Patricia Smith and City Clerk Terese Jones (March 19, 2026 minutes).

Rob Medina is the mayor of Palm Bay, serving a term that began in November 2024 and runs to November 2028, which the city describes as his second consecutive term (Mayor / City Council).

The City of Palm Bay biography says Mayor Medina has lived in Palm Bay for more than 38 years and settled there after serving in the United States Marine Corps (Mayor / City Council). It credits him with 20 years of federal service, the last 16 serving constituents of Florida's 8th and 15th Congressional Districts, and says he was an aide to former Brevard County Commissioner Jackie Colon from 2000 until 2008.

Medina kept the Palm Bay mayor's office without a runoff. The City of Palm Bay announced that he was re-elected in the primary election held on August 20, 2024 with 55% of the total votes (City of Palm Bay news), and the city's election rules declare a candidate elected when that candidate receives more than fifty percent of the vote in a primary (City of Palm Bay elections).

Mail to the mayor goes to 120 Malabar Road, Palm Bay, FL 32907, and the city lists the phone (321) 952-3414 and the email MayorRobMedina@palmbayfl.gov (Mayor / City Council).

Mike Jaffe, who holds Palm Bay Council Seat 5, is the deputy mayor; the city lists him as Deputy Mayor Jaffe under the email seat5@palmbayfl.gov (Mayor / City Council), and the March 19, 2026 roll call records him as Deputy Mayor (March 19, 2026 minutes).

Jaffe took office with the current council. The City of Palm Bay announced a swearing-in ceremony at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, in the Palm Bay Council Chambers at 120 Malabar Road SE, for incumbent Mayor Rob Medina, Councilman-elect Richard "Mike" Hammer, Councilman-elect Chandler Langevin and Councilman-elect Mike Jaffe (City of Palm Bay news).

Jaffe first reached the Palm Bay council in a special election. The city clerk's notice set a special election for Seat 5 on November 5, 2024, held with the general election, to fill a term from November 2024 to November 2026 (City of Palm Bay special election notice), and the city still lists that term under seat5@palmbayfl.gov (Mayor / City Council).

The deputy mayor carries routine business in the Palm Bay chamber. At the March 19, 2026 meeting, Deputy Mayor Jaffe read the announcements of expiring terms on the Sustainability Advisory Board and asked for applications (March 19, 2026 minutes), and he made the motion to approve that night's consent agenda (March 19, 2026 minutes).

Palm Bay Council Seats 4 and 5 were on the 2026 ballot, both for four-year terms running from November 2026 to November 2030 (City of Palm Bay notice).

The Palm Bay City Clerk's elections page set the qualifying period from noon on June 8, 2026 to noon on June 12, 2026 and the primary for August 18, 2026, and it names Kenny Johnson as the Seat 4 holder and Mike Jaffe as the Seat 5 holder going in (City of Palm Bay elections). The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists three qualified candidates for each seat (Supervisor of Elections). Under the Palm Bay rule on that page, a candidate who receives more than fifty percent of the primary vote is declared elected and no names appear on the general election ballot.

Both Palm Bay incumbents cleared that bar. The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists Kenny Johnson for City of Palm Bay City Council Seat 4 and Mike Jaffe for Seat 5 with the status Elected in Primary (Supervisor of Elections).

The same county list marks the other two qualified candidates in each Palm Bay race as Defeated in Primary (Supervisor of Elections). With both seats settled in August, Palm Bay has no council race on the November 3, 2026 ballot.

Three of the five Palm Bay seats were filled in the November 5, 2024 election: Seats 2 and 3 for terms from November 2024 to November 2028 and Seat 5 by special election for a term to November 2026 (City of Palm Bay election notice).

The City of Palm Bay lists Mike Hammer in Seat 2 and Chandler Langevin in Seat 3, both with terms from November 2024 to November 2028 (Mayor / City Council). The December 2024 Mayor's Message welcomed Councilman Richard "Mike" Hammer, Councilman Chandler Langevin and Councilman Mike Jaffe as newly elected councilmembers.

Seat 4 sits on a different cycle. The City of Palm Bay lists Kenny Johnson's term as beginning in November 2022 and calls it his second consecutive term, which is why Seat 4 shared the 2026 Palm Bay ballot with the shortened Seat 5 term (Mayor / City Council). The Palm Bay site describes Johnson as a lifelong Brevard County resident.

The November 20, 2024 Palm Bay ceremony also served as a farewell to outgoing officials Deputy Mayor Donny Felix and Councilman Philip Weinberg (City of Palm Bay news), and the mayor's December 2024 message thanked them and Councilman Randy Foster for their service (December 2024 Mayor's Message).

The City of Palm Bay publishes priority statements in its biographies for Mayor Rob Medina and Councilman Kenny Johnson, while the city entries for Deputy Mayor Jaffe, Councilman Hammer and Councilman Langevin list contact details and terms only (Mayor / City Council).

The City of Palm Bay biography for Councilman Johnson says he is committed to promoting public safety, economic opportunity, educational advancement, attainable housing solutions, youth development, and responsible stewardship of taxpayer resources (Mayor / City Council). It also describes more than a decade of work alongside youth, families, churches, schools and community organizations in Palm Bay.

Mayor Medina's city biography says he is committed to building public trust by leading an open and accessible government in service to the citizens of Palm Bay (Mayor / City Council). It credits his federal office work with helping obtain the Congressional Gold Medal for the U.S. Army's 65th Infantry Regiment and with helping local veterans receive overdue honors, and notes that in 2019 he received his second Congressional Medal of Recognition for service to the veteran community.

Council votes show how those priorities turn into action. At the March 19, 2026 Palm Bay meeting the consent agenda passed with Mayor Medina, Deputy Mayor Jaffe, Councilman Johnson, Councilman Hammer and Councilman Langevin all voting Yea (March 19, 2026 minutes).

Every Palm Bay council member is reached through City Hall at 120 Malabar Road, Palm Bay, FL 32907, at the shared phone (321) 952-3414, or by the seat email the city publishes (Mayor / City Council).

Council emails are tied to seat numbers rather than names, running from seat2@palmbayfl.gov for Palm Bay Seat 2 through seat5@palmbayfl.gov, while the mayor uses MayorRobMedina@palmbayfl.gov (Mayor / City Council). The Palm Bay page also carries an Email City Council link.

Regular meetings put all five members in one room. The March 19, 2026 meeting was held in the City Hall Council Chambers at 120 Malabar Road SE and called to order at 6:00 P.M. (March 19, 2026 minutes). The minutes of each Palm Bay meeting are kept on file in the Office of the City Clerk at City Hall.

Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the City of Palm Bay Mayor and City Council page and the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections candidate list.