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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XCSB Student Radio
I grew up in Cleveland, spending 30 years in North Collinwood, and music and radio were a huge part of my life and identity. Cleveland State’s radio station helped launch the careers of many of the legendary WMMS disc jockeys who defined an era of Cleveland rock radio. The station’s success — and its impact on our city’s culture — came directly from those CSU roots.

So why take that legacy away from today’s students and the generations to come? CSU’s radio program is more than a class or a club — it’s a creative outlet, a training ground, and a vital part of Cleveland’s cultural story. Cutting programs like this at our downtown university doesn’t strengthen the institution — it weakens it. Fewer opportunities mean fewer students, less community connection, and a diminished reputation.

Cleveland State should be investing in what makes it distinctive — not dismantling it.
Barbara Sandon Norris
WCSB
I urge the council to pass, unanimously, a resolution condemning IdeaStream and Cleveland State University for ruining a fine student-operated radio station on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
Vern Morrison
IdeaStream takeover of WCSB
I lived in old Brooklyn from 19-22 and during that time I became a regular listener of WCSB. From the Jazz and Blues radio show on Sunday mornings followed by Aounds of Beautiful Slovenia to the ILL Nation Monday afternoons through to my favorite radio show Highs in the 60s on Saturdays. I listened to WCSB more than 15 hours a well and have continued listening since moving out of Cleveland. Student run radio is the only place to hear diverse music from around the world.

What CSU and IdeaStream did was simply unbelievable. They took the station away in the middle of a semester with no warning. DJs with decade old audiences couldn’t say goodbye or make arrangements to move their shows elsewhere. Student DJs being led out of the studio with a police escort? Simply unacceptable.

Whatever can be done to get WCSB back in the hands of the students and community that built it for nearly 50 years should be done. I hope city council is successful in taking action.
Evan Belfiore
Transferring wcsb FM signal back to the student organization
For nearly all of the 23 years that the Ohio City bicycle co-op has been around, WCSB has been a staple over our airwaves in our shop, helping us to create a multicultural community of Necessity Cyclists and volunteers who seek to support them. No matter what the intended outcome was of this arrangement, it is undisputed that it was unsavory and left out vital members of the community and the student organization who should have been involved from the beginning. We the people want WCSB returned to the community and the students who have cherished it for nearly 50 years.
Erik Anderson
CSU and Ideastream bulldozing WCSB in the absence of democracy
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people- they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, pub 1968

As a CSU alumni and someone previously interviewed on Ideastream, I am currently ashamed to have affiliation with these two entities. I know people involved in both are aware of the ramifications of silencing artists, steamrolling the commons, and refusing dialogue with the people impacted by public choices, and so I wonder how they could stand for this. There is a great space, in this moment, to align with community and compassion by championing accountability, admitting a misstep, and moving forward together with WSCB returned to the volunteers and staff. Any alternative is merely a reiteration of profits/power over people, and will disgrace the legacies of both CSU and Ideastream.
Heather hansen
Resolution 1324-2025
I am urging council to support the Resolution 1324-2025 to empower the CSU and larger Cleveland community to continue the operations of community building and free speech through WCSB. This organization was largely self-supported and provided a community to our city's artists, students, and community members. The hasty revocation of the organization's usage of the 89.3FM frequency and their online presence has created a large hole in the fabric of our city.
RT
WCSB
WCSB changed my life, WCSB is an integral part of the northeast Ohio community and beyond. The volunteers worked hard every week curating shows for the listening public out of the love they have for this in their hearts. WCSB was the center of the Cleveland creative community. It was a home and place of belonging for the outliers and misfits. WCSB's wide range of programming appealed to communities of all classes and various backgrounds. WCSB helped keep the Cleveland Slovenian diaspora, the largest Slovenian population outside of Slovenia itself, connected and up to date on community events. There was something for everyone. Now there is only something for the rich elites. WCSB donors paid for the equipment to run the station that CSU is holding hostage, this included a new antenna installed in April 2021 that was also paid in part for with a grant from the College Radio Foundation, and now this antenna is being used by Ideastream rather than the purpose the donors donated for. This is a raw deal for Cleveland.
William J Ream III
The WCSB Resolution
As a donor and supporter of 89.3 WCSB and a CSU student, I think what Ideastream and CSU did to the radio station was incredibly tone deaf and detrimental to the community. Kevin Martin stated on Friday the he wasn't aware the radio station was anything more than a "club" what they decided to terminate it. Laura Bloomberg showed little respect for the people who have been building this organization for ALMOST 50 years. It is clear that Bloomberg sold out the community's voice for a seat on the Ideastream Board of trustees. And then, to offer to let Ideastream purchase the radio euqiptment that was fundraised for and purchased by the students is nothing less than a slap in the face and a middle finger to all of the student's hard work. Bloomberg show absolutely no regard or respect for the students and community in this deal and that is exactly how much respect we have for her deal with Ideastream.
I am fully in support of this resolution. CSU and Ideastream have badly hurt their reputations among the community and have surely been feeling the backlash of their decision. Return radio to the students and let them be
James Sanders
Shutdown of WCSB
As a daily listener for over 30 years I am appalled at the decision to shut down the radio station without notice. As a former student I will NEVER support Cleveland State University again unless this decision is repealed. Please take another look at ways the station can be brought back. This was a terrible decision on your part. It is not good for the community or for college radio in general. Extremely upset.

Up yours sincerely,
Jason Gokorsch
Jason Gokorsch
WCSB
Bring back WSCB, you took community and 50 years of gave it away over night. And for what? Give it back.
Cindy Munshower