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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Doom development concept
There are a number of problems with the whole brook park doom concept.

NUMBER 1. - State of Ohio backed a private entity over local control of how NE Ohio develops our region. So much for local control.

NUMBER.2 - Public subsidized financing for a private company to cannibalize monies flowing into core city and small businesses plus fans through higher ticket prices.

NUMBER 3 - potential federal funds to modify sections of 480 and 71 to improve traffic in and out of doom and airport. Couldn't the federal dollars be better utilized for say incentives to Ford to build a modern car assembly facility on the site? Make America Great Again and onshore manufacturing.

NUMBER 4 - The promise of more events. There are none. The doom will cannibalize events from other civic owned facilities.

NUMBER 5 - Fan experience Pre event and actual Event and Post event will change. Choises will be reduced while event ticket prices increase.

NUMBER 6 - site parking capacity is 11 to 18K depending on whether jimmys world brownstown lifestyle center is built. Doom needs spaces for 28K. Is there a plan for overflow demand to park on Snow or Brook Park and transport to doom site?

NUMBER 7 CLE has accomplish wonders turning city into a top notch place for major events, Hollywood productions, and tourism. The city is walkable, plenty of Downtown hotels, restaurants and activities for guests. The doom in brook park doent fit into the model that made CLE a destination city. It's not walkable, difficult for guest to get to and isolated.

NUMBER 8 doom subsidy indirectly subsidizes jimmys world brownstown lifestyle center. It's a terrible idea. Surrounding area median income is bottom quartile and can't support its retail, or restaurants.

NUMBER 9 what city in the world has desired apartment or townhouses or condo sold under luxury label (all new construction is sold as luxury to justify pricing points needed to earn a return on the capital) built next to regions major international airport?

NUMBER 10 late summer and autumn in CLE is best time of year. Doom trades those 8-10 weeks outside watching football for season long indoor to avoid maybe 4 weeks of potential very cool or wet and cold weather. People forget half attendees can't park at doom they will need to walk a mile plus in the rain or cold to and from doom. That will cause the same numbers of no shows
Brian J German
Browns Stadium
If feasible, suggest negotiating the annexation of the proposed new airport location to the City of Cleveland, keeping the team in its rightful municipality.
Kamms Corners Resident
Browns
As a resident of Cleveland and a manager in the sports and entertainment industry (currently at Rocket Arena) it is heartbreaking to lose the stadium to a suburban neighborhood. They will face extreme staffing issues, seeing that a majority of the staff currently does not have they’re own transportation and the city as a whole will be losing millions in income tax revenue from current employees some of which have worked at the stadium since it was built. The mayors deal with owners was a deal with the devil that will haunt this city for decades
Jamie Tuttle
Browns Stadium
Keep the Browns downtown, they do not belong in Brookpark!!!
Steven D Hesketh
Cleveland
Cleveland is corrupt mayor Bibb and everyone… the mayor does not care about Cleveland and nobody on council does my dad said a long time ago Cuyahoga County is corrupt and they still are
Sue
100 million
You better take the 100 million. The NFL is bigger than the City of Cleveland and the Browns and they will pull the franchise. You’ll be left with a dumpster of a stadium on your greatest natural resource that you’ll only be playing high school soccer in.
Get your heads out of your A$$e$.
Terry Gardner
wCSB/idea stream takeover
Dear city council Laura Bloomberg and IdeaStream overlook both the city and family connections when they ripped the radio station from the hands of the students. Students grow older busier and move onto the next chapter in the lives there’s a natural distance that grows between them and the older generation. My grandson had a show called Mudride that I look forward to listening to every Friday listening allowed me to stay connected with him even if it was for one hour a week and only through the airwaves. I’m sure this is the same for families of students borh local and out of state. Laura Bloomberg and IdeaStream did not look past the bottom line of a spreadsheet when they made their decision. Again, they not only rob the students of the station, but also their families of this connection.
Jeff Groves
Browns Stadium
I have worked in Cleveland for 36 year on Carnegie and attend many sports/music events downtown. Take the $100 MIL and stop wasting tax payers money on stupid lawsuits when the team is going to move to Brook Park anyway. The stadium there will make the region better. I have been to dome stadiums in Indy, Detroit, Vegas etc. The team is moving 1000 feet outside the city not to Columbus. The ENTIRE region will benefit other then a waste of space downtown for 8 games/uses a year on VALUABLE land. The city of Cleveland will benefit more from a dome stadium being used 20-40 times a year, maybe a Final Four and other large events that won't happen in an open air stadium by the lake. I am 55 years old and am tired of the crappy weather conditions like last Sunday playing outside. Maybe Mayor Bibb could have got $125 MIL but wasting tax payer money to keep this dragging on makes the city look foolish and I am tired of Cleveland looking like a loser throughout the country. The new WNBA team will pick up a lot of the slack. Most people get loaded at muni lot so the businesses will not loose as much as they think. No one i know drives downtown to drink and watch the game.
Jason Greene
Brook Park Browns
At every step in the process of the Browns announcing their departure, all I have seen is weakness and incompetence from both the mayor and council. Every time you speak, weakness and ineptitude oozes from your pores. It is very obvious to me now how some guy came in and steamrolled you. You should consider resigning and forcing the next generation into your offices. None of you are good for anything other than keeping a seat warm.
Mark Stockwell
WCSB Shutdown
WCSB's shutdown by CSU and Ideastream without student or public input, is a loss not just for students, but for the entire community. WCSB offered diverse, thoughtful programming and real opportunities for student leadership and growth which is something no generic, insincere "internship" with "true professional growth opportunities" can replicate. As a public university, CSU should be protecting student resources, not eliminating them. I urge Cleveland City Council to support the resolution to restore WCSB and stand up for student voice, free expression, and culture.
On a personal note, before I moved to this state, I met a bookseller who recommended WCSB to me and was instantly delighted by the range and unique array of genre and programming. WCSB became one of the reasons I was excited to move to Cleveland.
Kristen Tetzmann