City Departments in Sebastian, Florida

The City of Sebastian runs its own police department, public works, parks, building and community development offices, a finance department, a municipal airport and a golf course, all reporting to City Manager Brian Benton at City Hall (Departments; City Manager).

The names and numbers come from the Sebastian Staff Directory, which sorts every city office and employee by category. Most departments work out of Sebastian City Hall, 1225 Main Street. The exceptions are the police station next door at 1201 Main Street, the airport offices at 202 Airport Drive East on the northwest side of town, and the golf shop at the municipal course beside the runways.

In Sebastian, Public Works keeps the streets and drainage running, Community Development handles land use and growth, the Building Department issues permits, and Administrative Services manages the money (Public Works and Engineering).

Public Works and Engineering is split into Engineering, Roads and Bridges, the Stormwater Utility and Traffic Control divisions, and it also maintains the Sebastian Municipal Cemetery. Its crews handle potholes, sidewalks, signs, striping, docks, piers and tree trimming. The Stormwater Utility maintains the swales, ditches, culverts, catch basins and baffle boxes of the Sebastian Highlands drainage system along with the 8.15 mile Elkcam Canal and Collier Creek Canal, while each homeowner is responsible for mowing and cleaning the front yard swale (Public Works).

Sebastian's Community Development Department administers the Comprehensive Plan, zoning and the Land Development Code. It staffs the Board of Adjustment, the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Local Planning Agency, the Planning Commission and the Natural Resources Board, and it handles annexations, site plans, variances and the federal CDBG program (Community Development). Building permits, contractor registration and Business Tax Receipts go through the Sebastian Building Department, which moved its customers to the MyGovernmentOnline MGO Connect portal. Through that portal, or its mobile app, applicants apply for every type of permit, register as contractors, upload documents, schedule inspections, pay fees and apply for a Business Tax Receipt.

Administrative Services reports to the City Manager and acts as Sebastian's financial manager, budget officer and accounting manager. Its list of duties runs from budget preparation, cash investment and debt management to grant administration, payroll and revenue billing, and at year end it prepares the annual financial statements for the outside auditors (Administrative Services). Purchasing rules sit with the Procurement Division: purchases over $75,000.01 require a sealed competitive solicitation and council approval, under thresholds the City Council revised on November 20, 2024. The division reports that it received the National Purchasing Institute's Achievement of Excellence in Procurement award for the first time.

Human Resources, led by Director Daniel Acosta at Sebastian City Hall, handles benefits, recruitment, training, labor relations and negotiations, risk management, position classification and salary administration, and workers' compensation for city employees (Human Resources).

Sebastian's Parks and Recreation Department maintains more than 165 acres of park land and 23 parks and facilities, while the city also owns and operates Sebastian Municipal Airport and the municipal golf course (Parks and Recreation).

Parks and Recreation covers recreation programs, park maintenance and help with special events, from Riverview Park on the Indian River Lagoon to the Barber Street Sports Complex, and its director also serves as the contact for the cemetery grounds (Parks and Recreation).

Sebastian Municipal Airport, FAA designator X26, is a general aviation field serving mainly small personal and corporate aircraft. It has two runways, 5-23 and 10-28, the longest 4,000 feet, and ten airport tenants, including the city-owned Sebastian Municipal Golf Course (Airport). The course runs its own shop at 100 Brush Foot, open 6:45 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. seven days a week under hours in effect since November 3, 2024 (Golf Course).

Timothy Wood, the department's deputy chief, was appointed Interim Chief of Police of the Sebastian Police Department on June 12, 2026 (Sebastian Police Department Administrative Division).

Before the appointment Wood oversaw the department's Professional Standards Bureau, Road Patrol, Investigations and Support Services divisions and served as its public information officer, according to the city. The Sebastian Police Department works from 1201 Main Street, beside City Hall, with a non-emergency number of 772-589-5233. It has held state accreditation since 2002 and reached Excelsior status on November 1, 2017, with Excelsior re-accreditation on October 15, 2020 and October 5, 2023 (About Us).

Code enforcement in Sebastian is a police function rather than a separate department. The Code Enforcement Unit answers complaints and conducts its own inspections for overgrown lots, litter, sign code issues, swale parking and oversized trailers, and it keeps a 24-hour hotline at 772-388-4436, option 1. Florida law bars anonymous complaints, so a caller must give a name and address before the City of Sebastian can investigate (Code Enforcement).

Indian River County provides fire rescue, ambulance service, water and sewer in Sebastian, and WM collects household garbage under a city contract (Indian River County fire station data; Garbage Collection Information).

Indian River County's fire station data lists three stations with Sebastian addresses: Station 7 at 9700 26th Place, Station 8 at 1115 Barber Street and Station 9 at 13550 Roseland Road. Utility work is county work too. The Indian River County Department of Utility Services lists North Sebastian Phase 3 of its septic-to-sewer program, 168 homes near the Indian River Lagoon, with a community meeting held on June 17, 2026 (Septic-to-Sewer Program).

Trash service changed in 2023. Since July 1, 2023 every City of Sebastian residence has been on universal curbside collection from WM, with once a week pickup of garbage, yard waste and bulk waste (City of Sebastian). Questions about pickup go to WM, while drainage complaints go to the Sebastian Citizen's Request Line at 772-581-0111 (Staff Directory).

Sebastian City Hall keeps weekday hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and closes daily for lunch from noon to 1:00 p.m., and the main city number is 772-589-5330 (City of Sebastian).

Last verified: October 11, 2026, on the City of Sebastian website.