Grant-Valkaria Government Guide: Town Council, Town Hall and Elections

Grant-Valkaria is run by a seven member Town Council of one mayor and six councilmembers, all elected at large for four-year terms (Town of Grant-Valkaria).

On October 15, 2026 the town website lists Mayor Lisette Kolar, Vice Mayor Mike Bradvarevic in Seat 5, Tom Sammon in Seat 1, Rick Hood in Seat 2, Dan Faden in Seat 3, Brent Jackson in Seat 4 and Dan Robino in Seat 6 (Grant-Valkaria Town Council). Every member is reached through the Town Hall line, 321-951-1380, and the site gives each an email link rather than a separate office.

The 2006 Grant-Valkaria charter sets a council-administrator form of government: the council holds the town's powers, and by majority vote it appoints a town administrator for an indefinite term and sets that pay (HB 1297, 2006). The mayor presides at Town Council meetings, is a regular voting member and is recognized as head of town government for ceremonial purposes; the vice mayor is chosen from among the council for one year and stands in when the mayor is absent. Council members serve as town volunteers and are not paid (Grant-Valkaria elections page).

The town staff directory lists a Town Administrator, a Town Clerk who is also Finance Director, a Building Division Manager and assistant, a permit technician, an administrative assistant and a Code Compliance Officer whose line is 321-914-2133 (Grant-Valkaria staff directory). The Grant-Valkaria Town Council and Town Hall guide covers each office and what it handles.

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the Town of Grant-Valkaria and Brevard County Supervisor of Elections websites.

The Grant-Valkaria Town Council meets the second Wednesday of every month at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at 1449 Valkaria Road (Town Council page).

The town calendar on October 15, 2026 lists the next two meetings as Tuesday, November 10, 2026 and Wednesday, December 9, 2026, each from 6 to 8 p.m. (Grant-Valkaria council calendar). The November date falls on a Tuesday rather than the usual second Wednesday, November 11, 2026, so the calendar entry is the one to trust for that month in Grant-Valkaria. Agendas and minutes are posted from the same Town Council page.

The charter sets the voting rules that govern every Valkaria Road meeting. Four or more members are a majority and five or more a supermajority, and a majority of the Town Council is a quorum (Grant-Valkaria charter). A member forfeits the seat after missing three consecutive regular meetings, or four regular meetings within 12 months, without good cause. With seven seats, a quorum in Grant-Valkaria means at least four members in the chamber.

The main Grant-Valkaria number is 321-951-1380, and the Valkaria Road office keeps a four-day week, 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday (Town of Grant-Valkaria).

Town Hall is closed on Fridays. The fax line is 321-956-5660 and the mailing address is 1449 Valkaria Road, Grant Valkaria, FL 32950 (Grant-Valkaria contact information). The Grant-Valkaria staff directory lists a Building Division Manager and a permit technician among town staff, and a Code Compliance Officer at 321-914-2133 (staff directory).

The Town Clerk handles election paperwork: candidates requested qualifying packets by emailing [email protected], and qualifying papers are filed with the clerk at Town Hall (Grant-Valkaria elections page). The Grant-Valkaria Town Council and Town Hall guide lists the departments in more detail.

Grant-Valkaria voters elect a mayor and the council members for Seats 1, 2, 3 and 5 in the town general election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (Town of Grant-Valkaria elections page).

The Mayor and Seats 1, 3 and 5 carry four-year terms, while the Seat 2 term is two years. The candidates with the most votes win, and seat numbers go out lowest first, so the top vote-getter takes the lowest open seat. Qualifying ran from noon on Tuesday, August 4, 2026 to noon on Tuesday, August 11, 2026; the fee was $0, a petition signed by at least 1 percent of the electors at the last general election was required, and every candidate had to have lived in Grant-Valkaria for at least two years. The town page links to the Supervisor of Elections list of qualified candidates rather than printing names.

The other three seats were filled two years earlier. Seats 2, 4 and 6 were on the November 5, 2024 ballot, and Grant-Valkaria candidates ran at large in a nonpartisan election (Grant-Valkaria qualifying notice, 2024).

The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections posts the countywide dates. For the November 3, 2026 general election, early voting runs Monday, October 19 through Saturday, October 31, 2026, the last day to request a mail ballot to be sent is Thursday, October 22, 2026 by 5 p.m., and polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on election day at each voter's precinct polling place (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections). Registration books closed on Monday, October 5, 2026. The Grant-Valkaria elections guide explains seat rotation and qualifying step by step.

The Grant-Valkaria charter is HB 1297 of 2006, a special act that created the town, set its council-administrator government and required voters to approve it at a referendum (Florida Senate, HB 1297).

Voters approved it at the Grant-Valkaria Incorporation Special Election on July 25, 2006: 1,149 yes (66.03 percent) to 591 no (33.97 percent), with 1,741 of 2,436 registered voters casting ballots, a turnout of 71.47 percent (Brevard County Supervisor of Elections, 2006). The enrolled bill text itself names an August 1, 2006 special election in its transition section, so the Supervisor of Elections record is the date to cite for the Grant-Valkaria vote.

Three charter rules shape town business today. The council may not use eminent domain or condemnation to take property for private development, whatever public good it might serve. It may not issue revenue bonds or sign lease-purchase or other unfunded multiyear contracts unless Grant-Valkaria electors approve them at a referendum. And council members serve without pay (Grant-Valkaria charter text). The charter preamble states the aim to preserve the town's history, maintain a rural quality of life and foster community-controlled growth, the same rural theme the Town Council vision statement repeats, alongside a mission to promote ecotourism on the Indian River Lagoon and passive recreation on publicly owned land (Grant-Valkaria vision statement).

The transition section shows how the town started. The Grant-Valkaria Preservation Committee-Steering Committee was named as the body to select an interim council, and the money the interim council could spend on town business, including the first council election, was to accrue from a municipal millage rate of 4.369 mills identified in the incorporation feasibility study (HB 1297 transition section). That 4.369 figure is a 2006 charter number.

Grant-Valkaria sits in Brevard County Commission District 3, whose commissioner on October 15, 2026 is Kim Adkinson, the board's Vice Chair, reachable at (321) 633-2075 (Brevard County District 3).

District 3 also contains Melbourne, Melbourne Beach, Palm Bay, Grant, Malabar, West Melbourne, Micco and Barefoot Bay, and the county lists Valkaria Airport, Christenson's Landing, Fisherman's Landing, John Jorgensen's Landing and the Grant Historical House (Bensen House) among the district's named places. The District 3 office is at 1311 E. New Haven Avenue in Melbourne, and the Board of County Commissioners lists its address as 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera (Brevard County Commission). Brevard County owns and operates Valkaria Airport (Brevard County Valkaria Airport).

The charter has poll workers and clerks for town elections, if required, appointed by the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections (HB 1297, elections section). The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections publishes the early voting and mail ballot dates (Supervisor of Elections calendar).

Two Grant-Valkaria government guides go deeper than this page: the Town Council and Town Hall guide and the elections guide.

Every fact in the table comes from the Town of Grant-Valkaria, the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections or the 2006 charter, each linked in the sections above.