Votes at a glance: Titusville City Council, March 11, 2025

This summary lists formal actions taken by the Titusville City Council during the March 11, 2025 meeting. The council recorded motions, seconds and vote outcomes on a series of procedural and substantive items; brief notes follow each entry. (If more detail is needed about any single item, see separate articles or the meeting minutes.)

Votes at a glance

- Table SSA 8 2024 (Agenda item 9a) '1717 Barna Avenue, Royal Manor Townhomes: Motion to table to the March 27, 2025 meeting carried by voice vote. Note: applicant requested postponement for health reasons.

- Table Natural Resources public engagement (Agenda item 12c): Motion to table to March 27, 2025 carried by voice vote.

- Approve minutes of the regular city council meeting (February, full date in packet): Motion to approve carried.

- Confirm student advisory council appointment (Agenda item 6b): Council confirmed Caden Ramos as the 11th-grade representative for the 2024-25 Student Advisory Council; motion carried by voice vote.

- Planning & Zoning recommendation on future land use Policy 1.9.0.1 (Agenda item 6c): Council voted to decline immediate consideration and directed staff and P&Z to prepare specific amendment language if pursued; motion carried.

- Consent agenda (Items 8a'j): Council approved consent agenda items a through j, including acceptance of a Brevard County fire and rescue grant budget amendment, July Celebration authorization, an MOU with SkillBridge Training/Florida Veterans Inc., Jess Parrish Medical Foundation grant acceptance, replacement of shade structures, Harry T. Moore Neighborhood signing replacement, FDOT/TPO local agreement, approval of the community survey vendor, and easement to Florida Power & Light at 101 Singleton Avenue.

- Code enforcement lien reduction request (195 Roosevelt Street, Agenda item 12a): Council approved staff's recommendation to reduce the lien to recoverable costs only; motion reduced lienholder charges to $216.68 (city recovery amount); motion carried.

- Park Avenue wall (petitions/requests): Staff reported the wall appears in the city right-of-way. Council directed staff to notify adjacent property owners and return with a schedule for removal or remediation; staff will propose removal schedule and notice to owners.

- Space View Park tree planting and small appropriation (petitions/requests): Council approved advisability to plant live oaks and coonties in Space View Park, authorized a modest appropriation of $367.50 for materials, and accepted volunteer planting assistance by the Titusville Tree Team; motion carried.

- Selection of executive search firm (old business): Council approved ranking results and authorized staff to negotiate terms with the top-ranked firm, Colin Basinger & Associates, for executive search and recruiting services at a cost not to exceed $34,500; authorization included delegation to city manager to execute the agreement subject to HR, city attorney and manager review; motion carried.

- Water and sewer impact fee study (Agenda item 12d): Council approved the impact-fee study, directed staff to draft ordinance changes for implementation and authorized outside counsel review (Thomas Cloud) as needed; motion carried.

- Budget workshop and public hearing scheduling: Council selected primary dates for the FY2026 budget workshop (August 7, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.), a first public hearing (November 11, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.) and a final hearing (December 18, 2025 at 5:30 p.m.).

- Strategic planning session (facilitated): Council asked staff to return with alternative April dates for a facilitated strategic planning session (consultant availability constrained); no final date set at this meeting.

- Advisory request re: BAA appeals: Council asked staff to research the advisability and code changes required to allow Building Adjustment/Appeal Authority (BAA) quasi-judicial decisions to be appealed to council (rather than solely by circuit-court appeal); motion to request staff report carried.

Other notes: Several items were informational or had no final action (for example, the consultant presentation on Aetna contracts and the city service award procedural discussion). Several public-comment items addressed policing, community grievances and water/drainage issues; council received comments and made no immediate policy changes on those remarks.

If you need the official roll-call tally, supporting documents or exact ordinance language, request the meeting minutes and staff reports linked in the official agenda packet.