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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Data centers are well known across the country to use high amounts of water and electricity, and often cause pollution, both by material and by noise. This can only bring harm to the people of Brook Park.
City Council cites 250 new jobs created by this company as a benefit of the deal. This number of created jobs is a miserly amount for such a massive site. Amazon values convenience and greed over fair labor practices and ethical corporate practices, and it should not be allowed to lease such a large property in Greater Cleveland. Surely there are other plans for the property which can be discussed by the public!
I highly recommend that further studies be done so that city council can consider alternatives that 1) Create more jobs and/or 2) Do business with a company that is ethically sound, which will not harm the community they operate in.
We all was abused long before Laura came into our lives and when she arrived she aided in some of the abuse.
Laura Cowan aka Salimah Shabazz has gotten the attention of many media outlets and some talk shows.
After the Dr. Phil Show she called us all roaches pigs dogs and stupit on social media than erased it.
Our entire family has tried to live a quiet life and put our pain behind us by tuning the noise of the lies she has told out but we have not been able to do so because of Laura Cowan aka Salimah Shabazz promoting of false narratives about our abuse as if she is a savyer when in fact she participated in the abuse on many occasions we was held in her garage in her 3 bedroom 2 bathroom condo as children.
Mentally she has raged a war against us to hurt all of us with her vicious attacks, Laura has falsely accused a Ex- District Attorney Law officials Julie Baldwin of harrasment against us by stating on murder unscripted podcast that Mrs. Baldwin gave her information on all siblings to keep us in fear of her our family is gravely in fear of Laura Cowan aka Salimah Shabazz.
We are asking the verbally speak to the public concerning this matter
I work nights and they wake me up daily.
I have called police, but I guess these kids think they don't have to stop?
OPS advices me to contact your enity to complain of the entire chronological of Laura Cowan misleading and untrue behavior from calling 13 victims roaches, pigs, stupit, and dogs to making fun of them not going to couseling saying that they are brainwashed that she gave them money and that Mrs. Julie Baldwin and ex DA law officials gave her information on these victims to degraded and slander them.
Laura Cowan daughter has made several pages threatening her own siblings not to speak of the abuse that happened to them repeatedly causing them emotional and psychological harm.
Laura Cowan went on murder unscripted on utube there are two episodes and repeatedly lied on episodes 38 and 39 saying thing about these victims to tarnish them and their families with lies in order to make the public think that they are twisted stupit people.
She sat on that podcast laughted and smirked at the abuse they endure all of their childhood lives.
The City of Cleveland need to do a theral investigation into her 25 years of carrying out a lie to gain empathy from vulnerable domestic abused victims.
The family would like to file a complaint and have their side of what happened heard so people will know.
Thank you.
Submissions are accepted up to 5 hours before a hearing if time slots are available