No. HB 4083
Filed under Local Government.
City of Winter Springs, Seminole County; Provides for five-member city commission, including mayor; provides that mayor is voting member of city commission; revises mayoral duties; provides for transition; requires referendum.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe mayor becomes a full voting member of the city commission instead of voting only to break ties, and loses the power to veto ordinances the commission adopts.
Elected commission seats shrink from five to four, phased in so no sitting commissioner's term is cut short; the final four-district map takes effect after the November 2028 election.
Hiring or firing the city clerk, city attorney, or city manager now takes four votes from the city commission, a body that counts the mayor. The mayor's share of districting-commission appointments also grows.
None of this takes effect unless voters approve it in a referendum held with the November 3, 2026 general election, conducted by the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections.
AIChanges the mayor from a non-voting presiding officer who previously voted only to break ties into a regular voting member on every matter that comes before the city commission.
AIRemoves the mayor's authority to veto any ordinance the commission adopts and the four-vote override that went with it, so commission-passed ordinances can no longer be vetoed by the mayor at all.
AICuts the number of district-elected commission members from five to four, phased in through the November 2026 and November 2028 elections so no sitting commissioner's term is cut short.
AIConditions every change made by this act on voter approval at a referendum held with the November 3, 2026 general election, conducted by the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections.
AIRequires four affirmative votes from members of the city commission, a body that now includes the mayor, to appoint or remove the city clerk or city attorney, and to appoint the city manager.
AIRaises the mayor's appointees to the seven-member districting commission from two to three, while commissioner-appointed seats drop from five to four as the commission itself shrinks.