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West Melbourne council adopts residency ordinance for local elected officials
Summary
The West Melbourne City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-05 on second reading, requiring candidates to provide notarized residency affirmation and establishing residency investigation criteria.
The West Melbourne City Council adopted Ordinance 2025-05 on second reading, requiring candidates for local elective office to provide a sworn, notarized affirmation of residency and establishing criteria and a process for investigating residency claims.
City Attorney read the ordinance language on the record before the council held a public hearing; no members of the public spoke during the hearing. Planning or substantive debate was minimal. Councilmember Frampus moved to approve the ordinance on second reading and Councilmember Adams seconded; the motion carried 7-0.
The ordinance amends the city code to add residency criteria, create a residency-investigation process and include conflict and severability provisions. The council closed the public hearing with no public comment and approved the ordinance as presented.
The council did not identify any separate direction to staff beyond adopting the ordinance language on second reading. Implementation steps (such as publishing the new code sections and recordkeeping of sworn affirmations) were not detailed during this portion of the meeting.
Ordinance 2025-05 takes effect as provided in the ordinance text; the council did not state a separate effective date during the recorded discussion.
