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Description
Ordinance No. 2026-02, upon adoption, will amend Chapter 2, Administration, of the Town of Orchid Code of Ordinances to update and clarify provisions relating to Town officers, employees, staffing responsibilities, and records management. The Ordinance establishes a new Section 2-1 addressing written job descriptions for Charter Officers and Town employees, periodic review and adjustment of those job descriptions, allocation of duties among staff, and procedures for maintaining Town operations during the temporary or prolonged absence or incapacity of the Town Clerk or Town Manager. It deletes the existing codified Town Clerk job duties in Section 2-21 because the Town Clerk’s powers and duties are now addressed in the Town Charter; renumbers and amends the Town’s records-management provision to use the State terminology “Records Management Liaison Officer” and to clarify coordination concerning the disposition of Town records; and provides that certain duties previously assigned to the Town Clerk by resolution may be performed by the Assistant to the Town Manager unless otherwise expressly required by the Charter, Code, or a future resolution. The public purpose of the Ordinance is to promote the efficient and continuous administration of Town government, clarify staff responsibilities and succession procedures, align the Town Code with the recently amended Town Charter and State records-management terminology, and provide greater flexibility in the allocation of administrative duties while maintaining appropriate Town Council oversight.
Official Caption
An Ordinance of the Town of Orchid, Indian River County, Florida, amending the Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2 – Administration of the Town of Orchid; providing for legislative findings, amendment, codification, severability, conflict, and an effective date.
Business Impact Estimate
Pursuant to Section 166.041(4)(a), Florida Statutes, the Town of Orchid has prepared the following Business Impact Estimate for the proposed ordinance. This estimate is intended to summarize the ordinance and its public purpose, and to identify, in good faith, any anticipated direct economic impacts on private, for-profit businesses, including compliance costs, new charges or fees, municipal regulatory costs or revenues, and the estimated number of businesses likely to be affected. Please feel free to email the Town Manager or call at (772) 581-2770 with any questions about this ordinance or estimate. You are encouraged to attend the public hearing to be heard by the Town Council in advance of the ordinance's adoption.
Anticipated impacts
- No direct impact on private, for-profit businesses is anticipated
- No compliance costs are reasonably likely to be incurred
- No new charges or fees are introduced in this ordinance
- Estimated municipal regulatory costs associated with this ordinance: $0
- Estimate of the number of private, for-profit businesses likely to be impacted: 0
Posting/Notice Dates
- Caption posted: 06/9/2026
- Business Impact Estimate posted: 08/27/2026
- Newspaper notice published: 09/1/2026