Making an In-Person Public Comment at An Upcoming Council Meeting

Council welcomes public comments at each regularly scheduled Monday evening Council meeting. 

If you are interested in speaking at a Cleveland City Council, please read the revised rules and procedures for public comments and fill out the online form below. 

Submitting a Registration to Speak

Anyone who is interested in addressing Cleveland City Council at a public meeting must register with City Council prior to that meeting.

Registrations may be submitted:

  • By using the online form below
  • In person at Cleveland City Hall, Room 220, 601 Lakeside Avenue NE. Paper forms are available to register.
  • By downloading this form, filling it out, and emailing it to publiccomment@clevelandcitycouncil.gov or dropping it off at Council offices.

Registration Periods

Registrations will ONLY be accepted between Noon on Wednesday and 2:00 pm on the same day as a regularly scheduled Monday evening Council Meeting.

Council allows no more than 10 people to comment at its regularly scheduled Monday night meetings. Registration will close as soon as the first 10 people sign up. Each registrant will be allotted 3 minutes to speak.

Registrations will only be accepted for making comments at the next regular meeting; registrations for any future meeting will not be accepted until the Wednesday before the meeting. Early, incomplete, or false registrations will be rejected.

Notice of Registration

If your registration is successful, you will be notified by email or phone.

Accommodations

If you need assistance due to a language barrier or disability, please let us know at least three (3) days in advance by going here to make a request.

Attending Council Meetings

Cleveland City Council meetings are held in the Council Chamber on the second floor of Cleveland City Hall, 601 Lakeside Avenue, East.

Visitors may park for free at the upper lot behind City Hall after 5:00 pm on days when Council is meeting.

Public Record

Please remember that all registration information and public comments are public records and can be subject to public record requests.

Decorum

Cleveland City Council must maintain orderly, efficient, and productive meetings to ensure the important business of city government is completed. Council has developed a set of rules and procedures that allow the public to be heard in a fair and orderly manner. These rules and procedures apply to all speakers, and Council does not discriminate based on the speaker's identity or viewpoint or the content of the speech. Please read Council's revised rules and procedures for public comments before you register and before you appear before City Council.

Please note: Anyone attending a Cleveland City Council meeting is prohibited from engaging in any action or behavior that substantially interrupts, delays, or disturbs the due conduct of the proceedings of the Council; such conduct includes but is not limited to: handclapping, stomping of feet, whistling, making other loud noises, yelling, or similar demonstrations.  Any person who violates any of the above may be immediately removed from the Council Chamber.

Rules for Speakers
  • Speakers may not yield their time to other speakers.
  • Speakers shall only address the topic they registered to speak about.
  • Speakers' comments shall not be frivolous or repetitive.
  • Speakers shall not use language that is obscene or likely to produce imminent unlawful action. 
  • Speakers shall address all comments to the presiding officer.
Prohibited Items
  • Signs, posters, banners, placards, or similar items
  • Food and drink

 

To sign up to comment in person or online, please scroll down.

Make a Comment In Person at a Council Meeting

To sign up to speak during the registration period (Noon Wednesday through 2:00 pm Monday before Council Meetings) click this button.

You will be notified by email or phone if you are one of the ten people who will speak.


Make a Comment Online

If you would rather submit your comments in writing, please fill out the form below. 

Written public comments will be published on this page and delivered to all Councilmembers before the next full Council Meeting after they have been submitted.


Public Comments

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Browns
A different city will put the money made from games to better use than the our city government… clowns running the show
Jim Conley
WCSB
I am angry with Cleveland State University and Ideastream for their decision to end the student and volunteer run WCSB radio station. WCSB was an organic, free range, grassroots expression of Cleveland culture. It's programming was diverse and offered something for everyone, and things you couldn't find anywhere else. It provided opportunity to students to get their start in broadcasting. All of this was destroyed by the decision to change the format to all jazz music programming. There was no reason, no need for this to happen. And the way it was done showed a complete disrespect for the organization that ran the station for nearly 50 years. CSU and Ideastream should be ashamed of themselves, and I add my voice to the growing call to return the station to its former incarnation.
Christopher M. Sanyk
Cleveland Browns
City of Cleveland residents deserve better leadership than what is currently being displayed in this fight over the relocation of the football team. Nearly a third of residents live at or below the poverty line. Streets and infrastructure are outdated and crumbling, basic municipal services are inefficient and poorly managed, and the Forest City's tree canopy is dying. Residents are struggling to afford the rising cost of food, medical care, property taxes, and other necessities, and nearly every publicly funded agency in Northeast Ohio is reporting budget constraints in this economy. Let's reevaluate priorities and put funds where they are truly needed and not in the Haslams' already well-lined pockets.
Abigail Z.
Browns stadium
They are the Cleveland Browns not Brookpark Browns. Bring back the proposal to build a stadium just north of the stadium, fill in the lake and build the new stadium while playing in the old one. What premier development is going in the spot of the old stadium??? I say have the owner pay until they have a respectable product on the field
That's it!
mike wilson
Browns Settlement
Basically Haslam bribed the mayor/city of Cleveland to leave the lakefront using money from the state. Neither the mayor or the city of Cleveland should be accepting bribes. And money should not be taken from taxpayers to be used for bribes.
Mike Brubaker
Relocation of the Browns
My name is Rich Raphael. I am a proud resident of Ward 6, and I will not mince words today. Cleveland City Council, would you PLEASE reign in Mayor FIBB (no typo) he had no business making deals with anyone without at least attempting to communicate with and get something resembling informal consensus from the Committee of the Whole. Mayor FIBB has once again betrayed the citizens of Cleveland, not recognizing or not caring about the devastating economic impact moving the Browns out of Downtown will have on Cleveland's economy. This Mayor promised us that he was going to represent people and neighborhoods first and in making this deal, he has once again shown the citizens of Cleveland that he has every intention of doing the exact polar opposite of that.
PLEASE do not allow this deal to proceed at this time. PLEASE have the city (and not an outside consultant) do a detailed analysis of the negative economic impact moving the Browns will have on Cleveland's economy and then drop in in Mayor FIBB 's lap so he can see the truth, then release it to all local media outlets.
I have had quite enough of Mayor FIBB 's shenanigans, and I sincerely hope City Council had to. He should have gotten Council's input before he made a move and I feel very strongly that it's VERY disrespectful that Mayor FIBB did not.
Thank you.
Raphael Raphael
Stadium site
Use this money to develop the lake. A superhero museum would be unique and draw thousands. Look at how ComicCon transformed San Diego. Imagine a rock hall and a superhero hall. Home of Superman and many movies filmed here. You could make a walking app showing all the areas where movies were made
Nicholas Draganic
Browns Stadium
Browns stadium should stay Downtown because it the central location for all sports teams, hotels and food spots as Clevelander you want more eyes and attention downtown not towards the suburbs and other distant locations, the move to brookpark is about nothing but ownership and control and as soon as the novelty wears off that location will be Richfield all over again, plus the waste of dollars to relocate back downtown (if there’s a location). The future is not guaranteed for anyone, keep the fight alive for Downtown and stadium, when downtown wins, the entire city wins!

Steven W.
Browns stadium
I feel the Browns should not move off the shores of Lake Erie and we don't need a dome stadium. Football is meant to be played outdoors not indoors.
I feel that the city needs to crack down on crime and not be soft on it. Downtown Cleveland has a lot to offer . I see no need for the Browns to move out of downtown as there are already food, shopping, museums. I don't feel what the Haslams group wants to build is need or truly wanted. Also I disagree with the state using the unclaimed funds to help in building the unwanted stadium. I feel that money should be used to help the city or any city for that matter in bettering schools, roads, water, sewer and electrical grid across Ohio.
Get them to stop building the new stadium and get it back downtown.
Kevin Hoysak
The Cleveland browns leaving
I think Mayor Bib putting on a front and then “settling” is a joke.

Their name is the Cleveland Browns. Not the Brookpark Browns. Not to mention the deal that was settled wasn’t even a good deal? The lakefront will never see development in my lifetime and I’m 27 years old.

I will never vote for Bib after this.
Calvin Kohler