Jacksonville City Council Members

The Jacksonville City Council in October 2026 is 19 members led by President Nick Howland of At-Large Group 3 and Vice President Joe Carlucci of District 5 (City of Jacksonville).

Fourteen Jacksonville council members hold numbered district seats and five hold at-large seats numbered Group 1 through Group 5. The table lists every seat in the order the City of Jacksonville prints it, with the direct office line for each member (City Council Members). The office numbers run in sequence: District 1 is 255-5201, District 14 is 255-5214, and the at-large groups follow at 255-5215 through 255-5219.

Each Jacksonville member also has a coj.net email shown on the same list, for example [email protected] for the president and [email protected] for District 1. Terrance Freeman now appears on the City of Jacksonville page of Former Council Members for 2026, the newest entry in an archive of past councils that reaches back to 1967 to 1971 (Former Council Members 2026).

Last verified: October 15, 2026, on the City of Jacksonville website.

Each of the 14 Jacksonville council districts elects one member from an area of nearly equal population, while the five at-large members represent the entire community (City of Jacksonville).

That split means every Jacksonville household is represented by its own district member and by the five at-large members, who the city says represent all the residents of Jacksonville. The city describes the 19 members as elected to four-year terms and serving as part-time legislators with almost unlimited power to enact legislation, as the legislative body of the City of Jacksonville's consolidated government (City Council).

District boundaries matter most at the coast. The District 13 member page describes that seat as the Beaches communities of Atlantic Beach, Intercoastal West, Jacksonville Beach, Mayport and Neptune Beach, and says Rory Diamond was elected in 2019 (District 13 page). Residents who are unsure of their district can call the main City Council number at (904) 255-5200 and give a home address, or look the address up with the My Neighborhood feature on JaxGIS (City Council FAQ).

Council leadership turns over every year. In May the Jacksonville council elects a president and vice president who serve one-year terms beginning the first of July, and the president then assigns members to the standing and special committees (City Council).

A Jacksonville council member is reached fastest at the direct 255-52xx office line or coj.net email on the city member list, and legislative questions go to the Office of the City Council at (904) 255-5122 (City Council staff page).

The Office of the City Council is at 117 W. Duval Street, City Hall, Suite 425, Jacksonville, FL 32202, with a TTY line of (904) 255-5223 (City of Jacksonville). The staff page marks the 255-5122 line for legislative issues only and sends general matters to (904) 630-CITY. The City Council home page gives a different number for legislative questions, (904) 255-5200, so both official City Council pages are current and they do not agree on one line (City Council).

One practical point before writing: the City of Jacksonville warns that under Florida law, email addresses are public records, and anyone who does not want an address published should contact the council by phone or in writing instead (City Council). Several Jacksonville members also list Town Hall Meetings pages under their names in the City Council Members menu (City Council Members).

The council also has its own auditor. The Office of the Council Auditor was created under Section 5.10 of the City Charter in 1968 and sits at 117 West Duval St., Suite 200, phone (904) 255-5500 (Council Auditor).

The full Jacksonville City Council meets at 5:00 p.m. on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month in the Council Chamber of City Hall at St. James on Duval Street (City Council FAQ).

Meetings air live on Comcast Cable Channel 99 and Uverse Channel 99 and stream online while in session, with archived video posted afterward (City of Jacksonville). Agendas are available from the Legislative Services Division in Suite 430 of City Hall beginning the Friday before each meeting.

Legislation flows through council committees before it reaches the full council (City Council). The standing committees convene during the first and third weeks of every month, in the same ground floor Council Chamber at City Hall at St. James (Council Committees). The council lists five standing committees: Finance; Land Use and Zoning; Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety; Rules; and Transportation, Energy and Utilities. The 2026-2027 standing committee meeting dates posted by the council are dated July 1, 2026 (Council Committees).

Driving downtown for a Tuesday meeting is simpler with the city's own tip: parking is in the garage at the corner of Duval and Main streets, one block east of City Hall, and on council nights a parking voucher is available at the table outside the Council Chamber, in the Atrium at City Hall, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and after 6:00 p.m. from Council staff in the Council Chamber (City Council FAQ).

A resident speaks at a Jacksonville council meeting by filling out a speaker's request card before or during the meeting, and each speaker is limited to three minutes (City Council FAQ).

The card asks for name, date, address and the bill number or subject. General comments come in the comments from the public section near the end of the Jacksonville agenda, while comments on a specific bill are taken when the council opens the public hearing for that bill and must stay on its subject (City of Jacksonville). The order of business, set by the Rules of Council, puts scheduled public hearings after the consent agenda and before action on resolutions and ordinances on third reading.

For Jacksonville council meetings, accommodations for persons with disabilities are available on request through the city Disabled Services Division at 904-255-5466 or TTY 904-255-5476, with one to two business days of notice preferred (City Council FAQ).

For 2026-2027 the Jacksonville council president assigned members as liaisons to agencies such as JEA, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the Jacksonville Port Authority and the Jacksonville Aviation Authority (Council Committees).

The council list of special assignments names Ken Amaro as chaplain and Michael Boylan as floor leader. Liaison seats include Nick Howland for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Chris Miller for the Jacksonville Port Authority and the Downtown Development Review Board, Rory Diamond for the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, Ken Amaro for JEA, and Jimmy Peluso for the Downtown Investment Authority and Downtown Vision, Inc. (City of Jacksonville).

The same list names Kevin Carrico and Tyrona Clark-Murray for the Florida League of Cities, and Ju'Coby Pittman and Raul Arias for the Florida Association of Counties. It names Rahman Johnson of District 14 for the Cultural Council, the Joint Planning Committee, the Library Board of Trustees and the Mayor's Council on Fitness and Well-Being (Council Committees), and his member page lists him as chair of the Jacksonville Waterways Commission (District 14 page). The mayor is a separate office, held by Mayor Donna Deegan (Mayor of Jacksonville).