Jacksonville City Council Meetings Guide

Jacksonville City Council holds its regular meetings on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall.

The full council meets on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m. in the Council Chamber (Jacksonville City Council). The chamber sits in City Hall at St. James, 117 W. Duval Street (City Council FAQ). On the city's Legistar calendar the room appears as Council Chamber, 1st Floor, City Hall.

The next full Jacksonville City Council meeting on the calendar is Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. (Legistar meeting calendar). The council's current published schedule is the 2026-2027 Council Agenda and Council Meeting Notification, dated 07/01/2026 (Council Committees, Boards and Commissions).

Each regular Jacksonville meeting follows the order of business set in the Rules of Council unless the Council President changes it (City Council FAQ). It opens with the call to order, invocation, pledge and roll call, then approval of minutes, communications from the Mayor, presentations, quasi-judicial actions and the consent agenda. Scheduled public hearings come next, followed by votes on ordinances and resolutions on third and second reading, emergency items, introduction of new bills, unfinished business and new business. Comments from the public come near the end, just before the final roll call and adjournment.

Jacksonville City Council committees meet during the first and third weeks of each month in the same Council Chamber, and the standing committees next meet on October 19 and 20, 2026.

The standing committees meet the first and third week of each month in the Council Chamber, 1st Floor, City Hall at St. James, while special committees, boards and commissions meet as noticed (Council Committees, Boards and Commissions). The five standing committees are Finance; Land Use and Zoning; Neighborhoods, Community Services, Public Health and Safety; Rules; and Transportation, Energy and Utilities. Every Jacksonville bill is assigned to one or more of them for a recommendation before it reaches the full council (Jacksonville City Council).

Every row above comes from the Jacksonville Legistar calendar as it stood on October 15, 2026 (Legistar meeting calendar). The Land Use and Zoning Committee is the one that runs into the evening: its Tuesday session on October 20 starts at 5:00 p.m., after a 4:30 p.m. agenda meeting, The November 10 Community Redevelopment Agency Board meeting is labeled KingSoutel Crossing and Renew Arlington.

Jacksonville City Council agendas, minutes, addenda and meeting video are posted on the city's Legistar site, and paper copies come from the Legislative Services Division in Suite 430 of City Hall.

Council agendas become available the Friday before each meeting, and committee agendas the Friday before committee week (City Council FAQ). The Legislative Services Division in Suite 430 of City Hall houses all information on pending or passed bills and every council and committee agenda, and a Matters Pending list of all legislation before the council can be requested there. The council page gives the same Friday pickup rule for a printed council agenda (Jacksonville City Council).

On the Jacksonville Legistar calendar each meeting row carries columns for the agenda, an accessible agenda, minutes, an addendum, proposed amendments and substitutes, and video (Legistar meeting calendar). Cells without a posted file read Not available. Records older than 2019 sit in separate sections labeled Archived Legislation (Pre-2019) and Archived Agendas and Minutes (Pre-2019).

Questions about a specific bill go to the Office of the City Council, City Hall, Suite 425, at (904) 255-5122; that line is for legislative issues only, and general city questions go to 630-CITY (City Council Staff and Contact Information). The two official pages disagree on the number: the main council page gives (904) 255-5200 as the Council office line for legislative questions (Jacksonville City Council). The Legislative Services Division provides staff support for all council meetings and administers the Legislative Gateway website, the council's bill search.

Full Jacksonville City Council meetings air live on Comcast Cable Channel 99 and Uverse Channel 99 and stream online while the council is in session.

The council's FAQ says the meetings are broadcast live by Comcast on Cable Channel 99 and Uverse Channel 99 on the day of the meeting, that streaming video is available online while in session, and that archived video of past Jacksonville meetings is online as well (City Council FAQ). Legistar adds a video column to each meeting row, including committee sessions (Legistar meeting calendar).

Behind the broadcast is the council's Public Information Division, which maintains the City Council website and coordinates the audio-visual equipment and streaming services in City Hall (City Council Staff and Contact Information). The same division answers public records requests and requests for information from media outlets.

Parking for Jacksonville City Council meetings is in the garage at Duval and Main streets, one block east of City Hall, with parking vouchers handed out outside the Council Chamber.

The garage at the corner of Duval and Main streets is the one the council points to, and on meeting 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. (City Council FAQ). After 6:00 p.m., council staff seated in the Council Chamber horseshoe handle voucher requests for the rest of the meeting.

Anyone planning to address the Jacksonville City Council fills out a speaker's request card with name, date, address and the bill number or subject; each speaker gets three minutes, and comments at a public hearing must stay on that bill (City Council FAQ). The separate guide on speaking at Jacksonville City Council covers the rules in more depth.

Accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act are arranged through the City of Jacksonville Disabled Services Division at 904-255-5466 (voice) or TTY 904-255-5476, and the city asks for 1 to 2 business days of notice; last minute requests are accepted but may not be possible to fulfill (City Council FAQ).

JEA holds open board meetings in its First Floor Boardroom at 225 North Pearl Street, and Florida law requires every local board to meet in public with notice.

The JEA board meets in the First Floor Boardroom at 225 North Pearl Street in Downtown Jacksonville, and its meetings are open to the public (JEA Board Meetings). JEA lists a Finance, Governance, and Audit Committee meeting on October 26, 2026 and a full Board Meeting on October 27, 2026, the same Tuesday as the evening City Council session. JEA announces dates, times and locations the week before each meeting, streams board meetings live and posts the video within 48 hours.

The rule behind all of these Jacksonville and Duval County meetings is Florida Statutes section 286.011, the Sunshine Law. It makes any meeting of a county or municipal board or commission at which official acts are taken a public meeting open to the public at all times, requires reasonable notice of all such meetings, and requires minutes to be promptly recorded and open to public inspection (Florida Statutes 286.011). Council special committees, the Jacksonville Waterways Commission and the Community Redevelopment Agency Board appear on the Legistar calendar (Legistar meeting calendar).

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