Vero Beach Elected and Appointed Officials

The five elected seats in Vero Beach city government belong in October 2026 to John Cotugno as mayor, Taylor Dingle as vice mayor, and Linda Moore, John Carroll and Aaron Vos as councilmembers.

The city lists those five names and titles on its council page (City of Vero Beach City Council). The council calls itself the legislative branch of the city government: it approves and promulgates ordinances and resolutions, defines the policies city management carries out, speaks for the city before other legislative and regulatory bodies, and may set up citizen advisory boards and committees. Each member has a separate email link on that page, and the council shares one office and phone with the City Clerk: 1053 20th Place, Vero Beach, FL 32960, phone 772-978-4700, fax 772-978-4790, with mail to P.O. Box 1389, Vero Beach, FL 32961-1389.

The mayor chairs the meetings. In the September 22, 2026 special call minutes, Mayor Cotugno called the session to order at 5:01 p.m. and led the Pledge of Allegiance before the City Clerk took the roll (City Council minutes, September 22, 2026). For meeting days, agendas and how public comment works, the city's schedule is covered in the guide to Vero Beach council meetings and public comment. Last verified: October 18, 2026, with the five council seats, the City Attorney listing in the staff directory, and the November 4, 2025 and September 22, 2026 council minutes all re-read on the city site.

Three appointed officials sit at the dais with the Vero Beach council: City Manager Monte Falls, City Attorney John Turner and City Clerk Sherri Philo, each listed in the council minutes of November 4, 2025 and September 22, 2026.

Both sets of Vero Beach minutes name the same three officials as also present (minutes, November 4, 2025; minutes, September 22, 2026). The City Manager's page lists Monte K. Falls, PE, with the mission of carrying out policies and programs set by the council and administering the daily affairs of city government, from law enforcement, civil engineering and public works to sanitation, financial operations, human resources, community development and recreation (City Manager). The same page charges the office with professional management of the city's own utility systems for potable water, sewer, reuse water and solid waste collection.

The City Clerk's office keeps the records of every council meeting, transcribes advisory commission records as the council directs, holds all contracts worth more than $25,000 and serves as Supervisor of Elections for all city referenda and elections (City Clerk). The page lists Sherri Philo, MMC, as City Clerk. The city staff directory gives the City Attorney a separate line, 772-978-4730 (City of Vero Beach staff directory).

Phones in the table come from the council page, the City Manager page and the staff directory. The directory also lists John Turner by name as City Attorney, matching both sets of minutes.

In Vero Beach the mayor and vice mayor titles move among the five council members, and the minutes show the vice mayor title passing from Linda Moore in late 2025 to Taylor Dingle by September 2026.

On November 4, 2025 the council minutes list John Cotugno as Mayor, Linda Moore as Vice Mayor and Taylor Dingle as a Councilmember (minutes, November 4, 2025). The September 22, 2026 minutes list Cotugno as Mayor, Dingle as Vice Mayor and Moore as a Councilmember (minutes, September 22, 2026). The council page lists both titles among the same five council seats (City Council).

The roster can change again after the next election. The city lists eight 2026 council candidates: John O'Connor, Tracey Lockwood Zudans, Aaron Vos, Robert MacCallum, Jay Kramer, Brian Heady, Linda Moore and Davis Benedict (Candidates for City Council 2026). Two of them, Vos and Moore, are sitting councilmembers. The Indian River County Supervisor of Elections lists Election Day for the 2026 General Election as November 3, 7:00 am to 7:00 pm, with early voting October 19 to 31 and a mail ballot request deadline of October 22 at 5:00 pm (Indian River County Supervisor of Elections). Early voting runs at four sites: Sebastian City Hall, the Supervisor of Elections office at 4375 43rd Avenue, the Main Library at 1600 21st Street in Vero Beach and the iG Center at 1590 9th Street SW. How seats are filled is explained in the guide to Vero Beach City Council elections.

The Vero Beach council's most recent major votes set the city tax rate for fiscal 2026-2027 at 2.9816 mills and adopted the city budget for the year that began October 1, 2026, both by 5-0 roll calls on September 22, 2026.

The minutes record the millage ordinance as $2.9816 per $1,000 of assessed property value, moved by Mr. Vos and seconded by Vice Mayor Dingle, with no one from the public asking to speak at the hearing (minutes, September 22, 2026). The budget ordinance covers October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. During that hearing City Manager Monte Falls told the council the city held $18 million in its Capital Infrastructure Reserve Account and an unassigned reserve fund balance of about $4,700,000, almost $23 million in reserves, and that General Fund money would move to Fund 304 for capital use. A fuller account of the spending plan sits in the guide to the Vero Beach city budget.

Contract awards come to the council too. At the November 4, 2025 regular meeting the consent agenda included Bid Award 130-25 for directional boring for the STEP sewer system, with an estimated expenditure not to exceed $2,000,000 over fiscal years 2025-26 to 2028-29, and the 2026 annual street resurfacing task order at $994,133.46 (minutes, November 4, 2025). Councilmember Carroll said that resurfacing list served streets in the Atlantic basin north of State Road 60 and treated the island and the mainland equally.

The city sorts its citizen panels into three groups: ten advisory commissions, three regulatory boards and six statutory boards, all listed on the City Council page.

The advisory commissions are the Airport Commission, Architectural Review Commission, Finance Commission, Historic Downtown Economic Development Zone commission, Marine Commission, Recreation Commission, Three Corners Steering Committee, Tree and Beautification Commission, Utilities Commission and Veterans Memorial Island Sanctuary Committee (City Council). The regulatory boards are the Board of Building Appeals, the Historic Preservation Commission and the Planning and Zoning Board. The statutory boards are the Code Enforcement Board, Fire Pension Board, General Employee Pension Committee, Local Planning Agency, OPEB Trust Committee and Police Pension Board.

The same page links a Commission and Board Openings list, for Vero Beach vacancies. The City Clerk's office transcribes and keeps the records of advisory commission activity as the council directs (City Clerk), and that office answers at 772-978-4700.

Vero Beach residents are also represented by the five-member Indian River County Board of County Commissioners, chaired in October 2026 by Deryl Loar, and by elected county officers who handle property values, tax bills and elections.

The county lists its commissioners by district: Susan Adams, District 1, (772) 226-1442; Joseph E. Flescher, District 2, (772) 226-1919; Joe Earman, District 3, (772) 226-1433; Deryl Loar, Chairman, District 4, (772) 226-1440; and Laura Moss, Vice-Chairman, District 5, (772) 226-1473 (Indian River County Board of County Commissioners). The county describes the board as the governing body of Indian River County that sets the laws and policies under which the county runs, and links a commissioner district map. At county meetings, public remarks are limited to three minutes unless the chair grants more.

Property values and tax bills come from county officers, not City Hall. The Property Appraiser is Wesley Davis, CFA, whose site reports a 2025 certified countywide just value of $50,576,965,743 (Indian River County Property Appraiser). The Tax Collector is Carole Jean Jordan, at (772) 226-1338, whose site says 2026 tax bills are available (notice updated October 12, 2026) and that in-person service requires an appointment (Indian River County Tax Collector). The Supervisor of Elections is Leslie Rossway Swan, 4375 43rd Avenue, (772) 226-4700 (Supervisor of Elections). Questions about city ordinances go to the city offices above; questions about assessments, tax bills or voter registration go to these county offices. The section index for city government is the Vero Beach government guide.