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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49 1/2 years. That is a very long time. That’s how long this station has been on the air. 1 year less than I have been around. How can we stand by and let a conglomerate company silence a perfectly good station that delivered a wide range of genres , including ethnic programming that drew in listeners around the globe. They took over and play jazz. That’s it. Jazz 24/7. How does that help the community? How does that help students who want to make a career in radio broadcasting? Losing this station is not a win/win for anybody. The way it was lost was despicable and cowardly. Cutting the signal, escorting the students from the building, and locking everyone out. That is a textbook station takeover.
At least they could have set a date, and gave the station a send off, giving DJ’s time to say goodby to their listeners. Not a complete and sudden end that blindsided every listener. Please fight the good fight and bring the station back to the community where it belongs.
Sincerely,
Matt Vale
-a listener since 1996
I once believed that there was a part of society that held the rights of voices dear.
Ideastream perpetuating this and for no good reason makes me realize everything and everyone must be broken.
My thoughts center around two things that I am certain were not in consideration upon making this decision. The charitable donations each year to THE STATION . Money donated for continuation of the station and programs that people listening all over the world added to over the years. What must they be thinking right now?
Secondly, so many listeners no longer with us have donated music collections to the station, now sitting empty and unused. Is that forever now, as I'm sure JAZZ NEO has no use for them? What would it take to organize the programming separately so we can take a step forward rather than ten steps backwards as this has become a multi-faceted argument about much more than Cleveland and music.
This year, The Voice of America was silenced. Three other college radio stations were shut down this year (KTRU, KSVR, WSC), plus university student newspapers have, incredibly, been ordered "not to report news." I would have thought that Cleveland's public university was above that. It still has the chance to be. Please return student control to WCSB.
I was incredibly eager to learn at WCSB and it quickly became what I wanted to with my life. Then it was completely stripped away from me after just 2 weeks. This once in a lifetime opportunity was the hobby and livelihood of many people that were here long before me. I was only here for only a couple of weeks and already felt like I was about to be apart of a group that I'd be able to call family. Laura Bloomberg sold us out for a resume detail and a bunch of ad shout-outs over the radio for Cleveland State. We are more than that. They were worth more than that. Laura claims she opened opportunity by stripping away programming from every corner of the music space and replacing it with jazz. Smooth jazz to be precise; a genre so disconnected and despised by the rest of the jazz world for being completely uninspired and going against the original purpose of jazz. She took away an entire community on National College Radio Day. And she took it away right before the 50th anniversary of WCSB. Nobody knew of this; this was all done behind our backs. Nobody at the station was ever told about this and this was in the works for months, maybe even longer. This was devastating to me as I wanted to pursue music in some form in my lifetime. I was given this amazing path in life. It is gone now. But, there is still hope. Please help us bring back 50 years of history and give the station back. Thank you for your time and please give Cleveland back our station.
Submissions are accepted up to 5 hours before a hearing if time slots are available