Orlando City Council Members

The Orlando City Council in October 2026 is Mayor Buddy Dyer plus six district commissioners, from Tom Keen in District 1 to Bakari Burns in District 6.

Under the Orlando system, the Mayor is elected citywide and each of the six City Commissioners is elected by one district, and every seat carries a four-year term (City of Orlando, Mayor and City Council). Buddy Dyer has been Mayor of Orlando since 2003.

The 2027 column comes from the city election calendar: the Mayor and the District 2, 4 and 6 seats are on the November 2, 2027 ballot, while the District 1, 3 and 5 seats were filled in the 2025 cycle (City of Orlando Election Information). Phone numbers are the district office lines the City of Orlando publishes for each member, and they follow a simple pattern: the last digit of each Orlando commissioner line matches the district number.

Orlando commissioners win four-year terms in district elections for which the City Clerk is the qualifying and filing officer, and the next Orlando general election is Tuesday, November 2, 2027, for Mayor and Districts 2, 4 and 6.

The City Clerk serves as the Qualifying and Filing Officer for City of Orlando elections (Orlando election information). Winners of the 2027 races take office on January 10, 2028, the second Monday in January, under the timeline the clerk posts. The previous cycle chose one commissioner each for Districts 1, 3 and 5 on November 4, 2025, with a run-off on December 9, 2025 if a race needed one, and the City of Orlando Canvassing Board scheduled its December 9 meetings for the District 3 run-off at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office, 119 W. Kaley Street.

Orlando voters who want a mail ballot for 2027 should check their request now. The city notes that vote-by-mail requests expire after each federal general election cycle, so a new request has to go through the Orange County Supervisor of Elections, not the Orlando City Clerk. Campaign finance reports for 2026 were due on April 10, July 10 and October 12, 2026, and the fourth quarter report is due January 11, 2027.

The 2027 Orlando ballot is the bigger of the two cycles: it covers the Mayor's seat, which Buddy Dyer has held since 2003, along with the District 2 seat held by Tony Ortiz, the District 4 seat held by Patty Sheehan and the District 6 seat held by Bakari Burns. That makes four of the seven Orlando City Council seats subject to the November 2, 2027 vote, while Districts 1, 3 and 5 stay on the 2025 schedule.

Each Orlando commissioner has a direct district office line, 407.246.2001 for District 1 through 407.246.2006 for District 6, plus a city email address.

The City of Orlando lists the commissioners by name in the address format [email protected], for example [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected], while the District 5 office uses the shared address [email protected] (Orlando Mayor and City Council directory). The Mayor's office is reached at 407.246.2221 or [email protected].

District 2 is the one Orlando district with a satellite office listed on its page: Park of the Americas, 201 Andes Avenue, Orlando, FL 32807 (District 2, Commissioner Tony Ortiz). Commissioner Ortiz lists children, the elderly, infrastructure, economic development, cleanliness and beautification, housing and neighborhood improvement among his District 2 focus points.

Residents unsure of their district can use the city's My Neighborhood lookup, which the commissioner pages describe as a way to find out who their commissioners are along with nearby parks, schools and trash days (District 4, Commissioner Patty Sheehan). Each commissioner page also lists district projects by name, such as Creative Village Phase I and Phase II on the District 5 page (District 5, Commissioner Shan Rose). The Downtown Gap Trail on Washington Street appears on both the District 4 and District 5 pages, so a project name alone does not always settle the district.

The District 4 page lists the Orlando Farmers Market at Lake Eola Park, at the corner of East Central Boulevard and East Eola Drive, Orlando, FL 32801, among its district events, and the District 4 office line is 407.246.2004 (District 4 events listing).

The Orlando City Council meets at 2 p.m. in Council Chambers at Orlando City Hall, 400 South Orange Avenue, and the next scheduled meeting is October 26, 2026.

Agenda Review typically happens at 1 p.m. before the Orlando City Council meeting unless a Workshop is scheduled, in which case Agenda Review follows the Workshop, and Agenda Review is not live streamed (City of Orlando, City Council Meetings). The city lists 12 more meeting dates after October 26 and asks residents to confirm times at orlando.gov/events.

Orlando City Council meetings stream live at orlando.gov/watchonline and on the City YouTube page, and air on Orange TV channel 488, subject to interruption. After 4 p.m. the meeting also runs on Vision TV Channel 492 on Spectrum, Channel 98 on Comcast, 1082 on CenturyLink Prism TV and 10.3 digital over the air. People can also join virtually through Zoom, with dial-in numbers posted on the meetings page.

To speak at an Orlando City Council meeting, a resident submits a written request to the City Clerk's Office by 9 a.m. on the meeting day, and general appearances are capped at 3 minutes.

The Orlando meetings page sorts comment into three types (Orlando City Council meeting rules). Consent agenda items are heard at Agenda Review, the only designated time for public input on them. Public hearing comments are taken during the matching agenda item. General Appearances cover city matters that are not on the agenda. In each case only live in-person comments or written comments sent in advance are accepted, and live comment is limited to 3 minutes per item unless the council sets a different limit.

Requests to speak can be filed online at orlando.gov/councilcomment, by email to [email protected], by mail to City Clerk, Public Comment, 400 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801, or in person at the City Clerk's Office on the 2nd floor of Orlando City Hall. The clerk's office phone is 407.246.2251, and it keeps Monday through Friday hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Large groups are asked to name a spokesperson, and when a speaker yields early the remaining time is waived under Robert's Rules of Order.

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

The Orlando commissioners' city pages describe a mix of veterans, business people and long-serving neighborhood leaders, from Patty Sheehan, first elected in 2000, to Tom Keen and Roger Chapin, elected in 2025.

Tom Keen, District 1, is a Navy veteran who lives in the Orlando neighborhood of Lake Nona, and his page names traffic and multi-modal transportation across District 1 among his priorities (District 1, Commissioner Tom Keen). Tony Ortiz, District 2, has lived in the City of Orlando since 1989, enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1984 and served nine years, including the Persian Gulf War (City of Orlando council directory).

Roger Chapin, District 3, is a Florida State University graduate who worked for Orlando-based companies including Darden Restaurants and Mears Transportation, and before his election he sat on the Municipal Planning Board, the Downtown Development Board and the Orlando Utilities Commission (District 3, Commissioner Roger Chapin). Patty Sheehan, District 4, was President of the Colonialtown North Neighborhood Association, earned a B.A. in art at the University of Central Florida and worked as an administrator with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (District 4 biography).

Shan Rose, District 5, lists youth mentorship, community policing and outreach such as back-to-school supply events and job fairs (District 5 page). Bakari F. Burns, District 6, has led Orange Blossom Family Health as CEO since 2003, helped write the Orlando Housing First plan and served on the city's municipal planning board (District 6, Commissioner Bakari F. Burns).

One date on the Orlando pages does not match: the council directory says Commissioner Burns was first elected to the City Commission in 2020 (Orlando council directory), while his own District 6 page says 2019. Until the City of Orlando reconciles the two, the year of his first election should be checked with the City Clerk at 407.246.2251 before it is quoted.