Sebastian City Hall — Sebastian, Florida

Sebastian City Hall is at 1225 Main Street, Sebastian, FL 32958, and is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., closed daily for lunch from noon to 1:00 p.m.

The weekday hours and the lunch closure are printed in the contact block of the City of Sebastian website. The lunch hour matters in practice: the Building Department lists the same 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. day with a noon to 1 p.m. closure (Building / Business Tax), and Community Development posts an identical schedule (Community Development). There are no posted Saturday hours at 1225 Main Street.

City offices close for eleven holidays listed in the Human Resources FAQ: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, the day after Thanksgiving, the day before Christmas and Christmas Day (City of Sebastian FAQs). The two extra days around Thanksgiving and Christmas mean Sebastian City Hall is dark for a four day weekend in late November.

The building is on Main Street west of U.S. 1, but it was not always there. Sebastian Daily, drawing on the Sebastian Area Historical Society newsletter, reported that in 1957 there used to be Ponders Drug Store and City Hall in the vicinity of where the Sebastian River Area Chamber of Commerce is today, east of the railroad crossing (Sebastian Daily). Last verified: October 10, 2026, on the City of Sebastian website.

Sebastian City Hall houses the City Manager, City Clerk, City Attorney, Administrative Services, Human Resources, the Building Department, Community Development, the Procurement Division and Parks and Recreation, all listed at 1225 Main Street.

The City Manager is appointed by the City Council and serves as the chief operating officer of the city; Brian Benton holds the post and his office is reached at 772-388-8203 (City Manager). The City Clerk, Jane Garcia, MMC, is a Charter Officer who acts as Clerk to the Council and is the city's Elections Official and Records Management Liaison Officer (City Clerk). City Attorney James Stokes is listed at 1225 Main Street, extension 8201, and the office states it does not give legal advice to the public (City Attorney).

Human Resources lists its office at 1225 Main Street with phone 772-388-8222 (Human Resources), and the Procurement Division gives the same street address with hours of 8 am to 4:30 pm (Procurement Division). Parks and Recreation also gives 1225 Main St. as its physical address, with rentals handled at 772-228-7054 (Parks and Recreation), even though the parks themselves, from Riverview Park to the Barber Street Sports Complex, are spread across the city.

The Council Chambers at Sebastian City Hall host regular City Council meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month and serve as an Indian River County early voting site.

Regular City Council meetings are broadcast live on Comcast Channel 25, AT&T U-verse Channel 99 and online, and replay over the weekend that follows (City Council). The city calendar lists the Regular City Council Meeting of Wednesday, October 14, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 1225 Main Street, with a Zoom webinar link posted on the same event page (City of Sebastian calendar).

The chambers became a polling place in 2012. Vero News reported on October 27, 2012 that Supervisor of Elections Leslie Swan had opened a new early voting location in the north county at Sebastian City Hall, 1225 Main Street, in the council chambers (Vero News). That arrangement continues. For the November 3, 2026 General Election, the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections lists Sebastian City Hall Council Chambers as an early voting location, open October 19th through October 31st from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with extended hours to 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays (Indian River County Supervisor of Elections). Every other site on that list is in Vero Beach, so the chambers are the only early voting stop in the Sebastian area.

During early voting the room also takes vote by mail ballots: the Supervisor of Elections states that returned mail ballots may go into a secure ballot intake station at each early voting location during early voting hours. Council business and voting do not overlap in the 2026 calendar, since the last regular council meeting before the election falls on October 14 and early voting opens October 19.

At Sebastian City Hall residents can pay for a Local Business Tax Receipt, pick up permit and board paperwork, file as a city council candidate, buy a municipal cemetery lot and see posted job openings.

Application packets for Local Business Tax Receipts for commercial locations can be obtained at Sebastian City Hall in the Building Department, and payment can be made there in cash, check, money order or credit card or mailed to 1225 Main Street (Local Business Tax Receipt Information). Building permits themselves have moved online: the Building Department runs its permitting through the MyGovernmentOnline MGO Connect customer portal, so most contractors no longer stand at the counter to submit plans.

The Office of the City Clerk handles the annual municipal election, the board appointment process and the sale of municipal cemetery lots. Candidates for the Sebastian City Council must submit qualifying papers to the City Clerk's Office at City Hall, and the qualifying period generally occurs 96 days before the election (Election Information). Voter registration, precincts and polling places are handled instead by the county Supervisor of Elections at 772-226-4700.

Job seekers will find openings posted on the City of Sebastian's bulletin board located in the lobby at 1225 Main Street, alongside the website and the city's Government Channel, according to the Human Resources FAQ. Residency in Sebastian is not required to apply for a city position.

The Sebastian Police Department, including Code Enforcement, works from 1201 Main Street next door, and Public Works and the Stormwater Department operate from a complex at Sebastian Municipal Airport.

The Police Department lists its address as 1201 Main Street with a non-emergency number of 772-589-5233 (Sebastian Police Department). Code Enforcement is part of the police department, so a code complaint is a police matter rather than a counter visit at City Hall, and police records requests go to the department's own records section.

Road, drainage and swale crews are based near the airport. Sebastian Daily reported that on February 24, 2021 the Sebastian City Council approved a $9.1 million Public Works Complex at the Sebastian Municipal Airport, located between Roseland Road and the airport, after a design build contract was awarded to Wright Construction Group in 2019; the move freed the old Public Works site on CR 512 (Sebastian Daily). Applications for stormwater fee credits are submitted to the Stormwater Department, Public Works Facility, 505 Airport Drive West, not to City Hall (Stormwater Utility Fee Credit).

Election administration is also off site. Outside the early voting weeks, voter registration, precinct changes and vote by mail requests are handled by the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections at 4375 43rd Avenue in Vero Beach, phone 772-226-4700, while only city candidate qualifying stays with the Sebastian City Clerk on Main Street.