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Description
Ordinance No. 2025-09 proposes a comprehensive update to the Charter of the Town of Orchid and provides for submission of the proposed Charter amendments to the Town’s electors at a special election. The Ordinance adopts updated Charter language addressing the Town’s corporate existence and powers, Town Council composition and procedures, election and vacancy provisions, the roles and duties of the Town Manager and Town Clerk as Charter Officers, and municipal election procedures. It also adopts an updated legal description of the Town’s boundaries, establishes the ballot title and referendum language, directs coordination with the Indian River County Supervisor of Elections, and provides for public access to the current and proposed Charters before the election. The public purpose of the Ordinance is to modernize, clarify, and reorganize the Town Charter, streamline governmental processes, incorporate current municipal practices, align the Charter with current law, and provide the Town’s electors the opportunity to approve or reject the proposed amendments by referendum.
Official Caption
An ordinance of the Town of Orchid, Indian River County, Florida, proposing a comprehensive update of the Town Charter; providing for a complete and current legal description of the Town's boundaries; providing for referendum by special election on February 24, 2026; proposing ballot language; providing for coordination with Indian River County Supervisor of Elections; providing for public access; providing for legislative findings, amendment, conflict, severability, codification, 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: 10/29/2025
- Business Impact Estimate posted: 11/3/2025
- Newspaper notice published: 11/21/2025