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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WSCB
As a long time listener to WSCB, I want you to know that my heart goes out to all the students, DJ’S and to the community. It is a disgrace what Ideastream and CSU has done not only to the students but also to the community. This overtaking of the station will also hurt many listeners worldwide and your local businesses. I would like to see this station returned back to the students the listeners and the community. We can do this.
Rebecca Bergan
The recent takeover of Cleveland State University's radio station WCSB-FM by Ideastream Media
As a CSU alum (class of 1996), former WCSB station member DJ (from 1994-1999) and longtime listener, I have to say that it is a disgrace that Cleveland State University no longer has a student-run radio station. WCSB had served an extremely diverse community for nearly 50 years. The contributions the station made to the Northeast Ohio music scene are enormous and have gone far beyond anything the new format will be able to touch. WCSB was a lifeline to the ethnic music communities, punk & rock underground music scenes, reggae, folk, hip-hop and metal scenes, among many others...including jazz. (There were already several jazz programs being broadcast on WCSB before the format change). This is a total slap in the face to the thousands of dedicated listeners in N.E. Ohio, not to mention the staff (past and present) who gave countless hours of their time (for free!) to make WCSB what it was. Shame on Ideastream Media and CSU for orchestrating this hostile take over - done with zero advance notice, and with the campus police escorting the staff out of the building like they were criminals. Bring back the programmers and previous student-run format. WCSB, before the October 3rd, 2025 takeover, was an important asset to this region. It served ALL the listeners in it's signal range (and beyond via Internet streaming), not just fans of non-stop jazz streaming.
Thomas A. Miller
WCSB Takeover by Ideastream
I'm writing in support of the resolution regarding WCSB in front of City Council on 21 October 2025. I write as a graduate of CSU, a 20-year alumnus of WCSB, and a lifelong Clevelander. It strains, no, destroys credibility that neither CSU nor Ideastream had the slightest notion just how vital and beloved WCSB was to Cleveland and its cultural identity. It staggers me to think that the other possibility is that they did know, but didn't care. Please help to right this wrong.
Steve Traina
The takeover of WCSB-FM
The recent takeover of WCSB-FM by Ideastream is shameful. The student run station was given no notice, and were escorted out by police within a few minutes of the decision being made. WCSB was an extremely important community resource for many underserved groups in the listening area, and they are now silenced in favor of streamed music from an out of town organization. As a regular listener since 1983, and also someone who donated to the station on a fairly regular basis via their annual Radio-thons, I find it tragic that an extremely diverse and important community voice was silenced through unclear and somewhat shady circumstances, to be replaced with a bland, monochrome and unnecessary source of streamed music from a non local source. This is a horrible decision by those involved with Cleveland State University and Ideastream, and if there is any way to look into getting the station back to it's student programmers, it would be nothing but a just and worthwhile thing to do, and would allow the station to serve the local community and listening audience with the important information and diverse music it once had, in favor of the bland and monotonous background music that it was switched over to. Thank you for any consideration on this matter. With kindest regards.
Michael Corrice
WCSB radio station 89.3 FM
WCSB has been a great, diverse and wonderful FM radio voice in Cleveland for nearly 50 years. It was operated by student and community volunteers, providing alternative music in multiple genres. The decision by CSU to hand it over to Ideastream is the WRONG decision. I support restoring 89.3 FM to what it was before October 3rd, 2025 and letting the devoted stewards of this radio station carry on!
Walter Plecha
Ideastream WCSB 89.3
We supported and donated because of the unique programming WCSB provided. This was the best radio station in Cleveland when the student programming was in place. This sale and the way it was handled is unacceptable. We now have a massive hole in Cleveland radio.
Steve D
WCSB Takeover
Even though I live in one of the adjacent neighborhoods to Cleveland, the signal of WCSB reaches me clearly. I invite all council members regardless of their political affiliation to support the WCSB resolution. Let us all hold responsible leaders of public institution that are consciously alienating community from it's own media space.
Stanislav Zabic
WCSB Takeover by Ideastream
Ideastream's greedy takeover (it was indeed a takeover) of WCBS, removing community programming in favor of bland jazz, was a terrible decision that was executed cruelly and shamefully by both Ideastream and CSU. The new programming does nothing to benefit, reflect, or bolster our Cleveland community, least of all Cleveland's music community. We demand that programming be given back to the students and community members who have worked to hard to give WCSB the legacy that Ideastream is so eager to carelessly destroy.
Alexandria Marshall
WCSB 89.3 FM Collage Radio
Cleveland State university has helped college students for maybe over 50 years of college radio. They have helped students with the radio station to become radio announcers. It’s a radio station with versatility and alternative listening, which has helped the community at large. We are disappointed as a community to hear that the radio station no longer exist. I feel they did not give the opportunity to the members of the Station and the students any memorandum about what they were going to do it would be nice if they will continue the station in helping students develop a radio career. Thank you.
Juan Carrion
WCSB
Please consider bringing back the students’ WCSB. I will miss it so much and Cleveland will be less cool without it. No one asked for jazz. You can still do your internship program without playing jazz 24/7. Literally no one asked for that.
Meghan Wingenfeld