Council Meetings and Agendas in Sebastian, Florida

The Sebastian City Council holds its regular meetings on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month at 6 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Sebastian City Hall, 1225 Main Street (City Council; Sebastian CRA).

The published calendar for fiscal year 2026-27 is thinner than that rule suggests. The Sebastian Community Redevelopment Agency page, which lists the council sessions where CRA business is taken up, shows one date each in November and December 2026 and one a month through September 2027, ending with the hearing that adopts the FY 27/28 budget (Sebastian Community Redevelopment Agency). The city adds that any scheduled date with no business to consider is cancelled, with the notice posted on its website.

The next regular meeting on the city's Meetings Calendar is Wednesday, October 14, 2026, set for 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. In late October the same Sebastian chambers also serve as an early voting site for the general election from October 19, according to the city calendar on the Natural Resources Board page.

Besides its regular Wednesday sessions, the Sebastian council calls special meetings, workshops and closed executive sessions, each posted separately in the city's Agenda Center.

Special meetings handle single subjects outside the regular calendar. The city calendar lists a special meeting on a City of Sebastian septic to sewer feasibility study at 5:01 p.m. on October 12, 2026 in the Council Chambers at City Hall, and the Agenda Center shows other 2026 special meetings on April 29 and July 28 (Meetings Calendar). Budget hearings are special meetings too: Sebastian's first public hearing on the millage and budget for FY 2026-27 was a special meeting on September 14, 2026.

Workshops are discussion sessions. The 2026 Sebastian list opens with a combined City Council workshop and special meeting on January 7, 2026, and it includes two FY 26-27 budget workshops in mid-July (Agenda Center).

Executive sessions are the one type of Sebastian meeting the public cannot sit in on. The calendar shows a council executive session at 5:01 p.m. on October 14, 2026, an hour before that night's regular meeting (Meetings Calendar). Florida's Sunshine Law allows such a closed attorney-client session only for settlement negotiations or strategy on pending litigation spending, requires a certified court reporter to record the entire session, and makes the transcript a public record once the litigation ends (Section 286.011, Florida Statutes).

Sebastian posts current agendas for the council and its boards in the Agenda Center on the city website, publishes minutes after they are approved, and keeps older agendas and minutes in a public Laserfiche records portal (Agenda Center; City Council).

Agendas usually go up several days ahead. The October 14, 2026 regular meeting agenda was posted on October 8, 2026 at 1:44 p.m., and the Sebastian council and CRA agenda for September 23, 2026 was posted on September 18 (Agenda Center). The Agenda Center sorts by body, including the City Council, the Planning and Zoning Commission, the Natural Resources Board, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, the Veterans Advisory Board and the Charter Review Committee, and it offers RSS feeds and Notify Me alerts for new postings.

Noticing and record keeping belong to City Clerk Jane Garcia, whose office notices council meetings to members and the public, keeps the journal of each meeting, records the minutes and posts council agendas to the website (City Clerk). For anything older, the city's Public Records Search page points to weblink.cityofsebastian.org, where council minutes, agendas, ordinances and resolutions can be searched without registering.

In 2026 the Sebastian council posted combined City Council and CRA agendas for meetings on February 25, March 25, June 24, July 22, August 19 and September 23, so redevelopment items for the riverfront district came up roughly every other month (Agenda Center).

A single Sebastian agenda carries both names on those nights because the same five members sit first as the City Council and then as the Sebastian Community Redevelopment Agency board. The March 25, 2026 session shows how agendas can change after posting: the Agenda Center holds the original March 18 posting and an amended City Council and Community Redevelopment Agency agenda posted March 23. Summer schedules shift as well. In 2026 the council met on August 5 and August 19, both Wednesdays, rather than on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month, and its September 9 session was posted as a full agenda packet.

The Agenda Center states that previous agendas and minutes are kept in the city's public records resource site, and that Zoom details for each Sebastian session are posted in the event entry for that meeting on the city calendar (Agenda Center).

Most Sebastian advisory boards also meet in the evening in the City Hall Council Chambers, on fixed monthly patterns that the Agenda Center makes easy to trace (Agenda Center).

The Sebastian Planning and Zoning Commission, seven members and two alternates, is the busiest: it hears land development requests and Land Development Code amendments at 6 p.m. on the first and third Thursdays, though the Agenda Center shows several 2026 sessions cancelled. The Natural Resources Board meets at 6 p.m. on the first Tuesday in the Council Chambers and champions the Sustainable Sebastian program the council adopted by Resolution R-19-30.

Sebastian streams most council and board meetings live online through Facebook and YouTube event streams, and council sessions also air on Comcast Channel 25 and AT&T U-verse Channel 99 (Web Channel; City Council).

Replays run on COStv, starting the Friday after a meeting and repeating until the next Friday (COStv Schedule). Remote viewers can also join by Zoom Webinar, with the link posted in each meeting's calendar entry; the city's Public Participation page explains when remote speakers are recognized. Anyone needing an accommodation to attend a Sebastian CRA or council meeting is asked to call the city's ADA coordinator at 772-589-5330 at least 48 hours ahead, and the CRA notice reminds anyone planning to appeal a decision that a verbatim record may be needed (Sebastian CRA).

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