Vero Beach City Council Meetings — Vero Beach, Florida

The Vero Beach City Council meets on Tuesday mornings in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 1053 20th Place. The city's calendar lists the next two sessions as City Council meetings on October 13, 2026 and October 27, 2026, each at 9:30 a.m. in Council Chambers. The council is the legislative branch of the city government; according to the City Council page, it approves ordinances and resolutions, sets the policies carried out by city management and can establish citizen advisory boards. Its five members are Mayor John E. Cotugno, Vice Mayor Taylor Dingle and Councilmembers Linda Moore, John Carroll and Aaron Vos, supported at meetings by City Clerk Sherri Philo. Last verified: October 8, 2026, on the City of Vero Beach website, using its City Council, Calendar and City Clerk pages.

The 2026 schedule in the city's Agenda Center shows a regular rhythm. Regular meetings were posted for January 13 and 27, February 10 and 24, March 10 and 24, April 14 and 28, May 12 and 26, June 9 and 23, July 14, August 11 and 25, September 8 and 22, and October 13. Every one of those dates is a Tuesday, and in most months they fall on the second and fourth Tuesdays; July 2026 had a single regular meeting.

Special call meetings fill the gaps. The Vero Beach Agenda Center lists special call meetings on February 3, February 17, June 23, September 10 and September 22, 2026, a budget workshop on July 22, 2026 and a special call workshop on August 18, 2026. The same Vero Beach calendar shows the Council Chambers in use by advisory boards between council sessions, including an Airport Commission meeting on October 23, 2026 at 9:30 a.m.

Agendas go online before each meeting and minutes follow once approved. The City of Vero Beach states that agendas are available prior to meetings and minutes are available upon approval, and the Agenda Center posts each item as a downloadable agenda with earlier versions kept on file. The Agenda Center also offers Notify Me alerts and an RSS feed, and a search tool by date range or keyword.

The same Vero Beach Agenda Center carries agendas for the city's boards and committees, including the Airport Commission, Code Enforcement Board, Finance Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Humiston Boardwalk Citizens Committee, Marine Commission, Planning and Zoning Board, Three Corners Steering Committee, Utilities Commission and Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary Advisory Committee.

Older records take more effort. The City Council page says that agendas, minutes and video from before 2010 must be requested from the City Clerk's Office, and that City Council minutes from 1993 through 2014 are posted on MuniCode. The City Clerk, Sherri Philo, MMC, records and maintains the records of all City Council meetings and discussions and acts as the repository for official municipal documents at Vero Beach City Hall.

Council meetings are televised and streamed. According to the city's CTYVB 13 page, CTYVB 13 is the municipal government access channel of the City of Vero Beach, operated by the office of the City Clerk with programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week. City Council meetings are aired live and rebroadcast, and board and commission meetings are also aired live.

In Vero Beach, CTYVB 13 appears on Comcast and Xfinity Channel 13 and on AT&T U-verse Channel 99, with a live streaming channel, a high definition stream, video on demand and a meetings playlist. The city provides closed captioning on City Council, board and commission meetings, and asks viewers who need a meeting not available with captions to contact the City Clerk's Office at City Hall. Replays of meetings that aired before July 1, 2016 are on the city's YouTube channel.

Florida law guarantees a chance to be heard, and the Vero Beach council sets the ground rules. Under section 286.0114 of the Florida Statutes, members of the public must be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard on a proposition before a board or commission, such as the Vero Beach City Council. The opportunity does not have to come at the same meeting as the vote, so long as it happens during the decision-making process and reasonably close in time before the council acts.

The statute also limits what rules a body such as the Vero Beach council may adopt. Permitted rules may set the amount of time each speaker has, allow a representative to speak for a large group, prescribe a form for a speaker to signal a wish to be heard and a position for or against, and designate a specified period of time for public comment. The right to be heard does not apply to emergency actions, to ministerial acts such as approving minutes and ceremonial proclamations, or to quasi-judicial proceedings, where other rights to be heard apply.

The meetings themselves must be open. Section 286.011 declares meetings of municipal boards at which official acts are taken to be public meetings open to the public at all times, requires reasonable notice of those meetings and requires that minutes be promptly recorded and open to public inspection. Because the City Clerk keeps those minutes for the Vero Beach City Council, the clerk's office is also the point of contact for the record of what was said during public comment.

Letters and emails to council members are generally public. The City of Vero Beach Sunshine Law page notes that Florida has a very broad Public Records Law, that most written communications to or from state and local officials about public business are public records available on request, and that email communications, including the sender's email address, may be subject to public disclosure. The council can be reached through a shared City Council email or the City Clerk at 772-978-4700.

Records requests go to the City Clerk, who serves as custodian of records for the City of Vero Beach; the city has posted a public records policy dated April 2025 and Resolution No. 2025-23. Because the clerk also keeps all council minutes, the same office at 1053 20th Place handles both meeting records and other Vero Beach public records.

Appointed boards give residents a second route into city decisions. The city's Boards and Commissions page lists advisory commissions such as the Airport, Architectural Review, Finance, Marine, Recreation, Tree and Beautification and Utilities commissions and the Three Corners Steering Committee; regulatory boards such as the Board of Building Appeals, the Historic Preservation Commission and the Planning and Zoning Board; and statutory boards including the Code Enforcement Board and the Local Planning Agency. Applications for appointment use a single Vero Beach form.

Seats open regularly. As of October 8, 2026, the city's Commission and Board Openings page listed two full member and two alternate positions on the Board of Building Appeals, two full member positions on the Tree and Beautification Commission, one full member position on the Historic Downtown Economic Development Zone Advisory Committee and alternate openings on the Finance Commission, Historic Preservation Commission, Planning and Zoning Board and Utilities Commission. In the words of the Vero Beach City Council page, such citizen advisory boards and committees exist to assist the council in its duties.