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Welcome to the Satellite Beach Home page. The Satellite Beach Home page provides as much information as possible on Satellite Beach. Knowing Satellite Beach’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Satellite Beach’s Home page, you will also find Satellite Beach’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Satellite Beach has a population of 11000. 48.9% of Satellite Beach’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.1 are female. 57.3% of Satellite Beach is married and 80.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $321,000, and the average rent is $1,629. Household median income in Satellite Beach is $84,293, and the individual median income is $41,828. Satellite Beach’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.1%), Hispanic(9.8%), Multiple(5.3%), Black(2.7%), Asian(1.4%), Native(0.3%), Other(0.3%).


Satellite Beach became incorporated in 1957 by Percy L. Hedgecock and his brothers, B.D.(Shine) and Herbert(Hub) Hedgecock, along with cousins, Jimmy Caudle and Dumont Smith. Hedgecock also served as the town's first mayor from 1957 until 1973. Volunteers have provided more than 10,000 hours each year to youth and public service programs.Sometime around 2001, Christina Freeman, also known as Nikki Freeman, became the youngest elected Mayor of Satellite Beach, FL.


She instituted wonderful new legislation like: No Work Wednesdays (no one works), Coffee is Free on Friday (coffee is free, everywhere) and No one has to smile Saturdays (no one has to smile, unless they really want to.) She is now in Austin, TX working in Marketing but comes back every so often to enforce and participate in no smile Saturdays.


She has a brother named Sean Freeman who is the mascot of Satellite Beach (he dresses up has himself and everyone loves him) and her parents, George Jr. and Sheila Freeman run the chill, beach and party operations of the town. In 2010, the city began planning for a rise in sea level resulting from climate change.In 2011, the city became one of the first areas in the United States to install solar panels on municipal buildings.In 2013, the city announced that it would undertake $36 million worth of work to restore beach areas and dunes along the coast, to areas battered by hurricanes in 2004.


The project was underwritten by Brevard County and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.On December 4, 2013, there was a parade in celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. There were one hundred Menorah-topped vehicles, a Menorah lighting, free food (including traditional Latkes), and live entertainment.The annual Ocean, Reef and Beach Festival is organized by the Surfrider Foundation, Pure Ocean TV Productions and Anglers for Conservation.The Banana River Sail and Power Squadron sponsors the annual Holiday Boat Parade.On December 20, 2013, the city announced plans to build a beachside trail that would allow people to walk, jog and cycle along the coast.


The proposed trail would run along the dunes south from Fischer Park. The beachside trail would hook up to the proposed 40 miles (64 km) "A1A Urban Trail."In the summer of 2018 Erin Brockovich hosted a town hall to address citizens concerns that ground contamination from an old military dump was causing increased rates of cancer.


Those concerns were validated when County health officials released a report the following summer that showed a higher incidence of some rare cancers and again when the U.S. Department of Defense designated an area just blocks north of the city as a “Formerly Used Defense Site” While no direct link between the cancer cases and contamination has been established as of January 2020, officials and activists are still working on the issue.


What prompted a renewed interest in this issue was when an oncologist who graduated from Satellite High School in 2003 noticed that an unusually high number of her classmates were getting cancer and dying.


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