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
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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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.
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.
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
Get your heads out of your A$$e$.
Submissions are accepted up to 5 hours before a hearing if time slots are available