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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Cease Fire Gaza
Rather than an official declaration in favor of a cease fire in Gaza, I would rather see the same for Cleveland! I am afraid to be in your city at night. Are you aware of the number of law biding citizens who have gotten their concealed carry permits because they fear being in your city after dark?
Richard S Kaufman Jr
Why Gas Stoves should be taken out all Houses / Apartments
Why Gas Stoves should be taken out all Houses / Apartments.
Because Carbon Monoxide kills people in Houses / Apartments.
Taken out the Gas Stoves takes off the Carbon monoxide/ lead paint/ and makes less lead paint testing in
Houses / Apartments.
The End Lead Paint Laws is also being applied when Gas Stoves are taken out the Houses / Apartments.
To create cleaner air, all the Houses / Apartments should have electric stoves.
I'm a North west Member - Neighborhood of Council 15.
To Conclude to Council, My writing is a request to put electric stoves in all Houses / Apartments .
The request creates less lead paint & Creates Cleaner air existing in all Houses / Apartments/
including Lofts... to & for the living people .
The Neighborhood of Northwest Council 15.
Thank you
Majeeda Ali
The gross amount of litter in your city.
For the past month I have had to travel to the Cleveland VA Medical Center for treatment. I travel I-480, I-77, and St. Rt. 10 to get to the medical center. The amount of litter along your roadways is atrocious. It perplexes me how democrats, who proclaim to be all about the environment, are always in charge of the dirtiest cities in America. It is only because of your lack of leadership and will that these conditions exist. The problem is easily solved by forcing welfare recipients and convicted misdemeanor violators to pay society back by picking up the litter. You all should be ashamed of yourselves.
Jeffrey Sanson
Poverty
I live on Union and 103rd. The area is in deplorable condition. Trash is everywhere and there are large trees in the area that damaging our homes and the surrounding power lines . No one from the city inspects these areas? These trees are city property can you please send the city workers to cut them down? Also, what can be done there’s outrageous utility cost? I am only making minimum wage and can not afford to keep my utilities on much longer. I’m currently in school trying to make a comfortable living but it’s currently very difficult. I have learning disabilities and no help please do better to help service the people who are incapable of helping themselves.
Sirin Broadus
Parking
I live on 117th St (off Superior). It is
SUPPOSED to be a one way street and it's not recognized by many of the citizens of Cleveland. They zoom UP the wrong way sooo many times, and basically the corners for entering AND exiting this street needs patrolling.
Secondly, on the corner of E117st superior corner there are THREE businesses there and everyday cars are parked on Superior and it makes it hard to come out onto superior.
I have been addressing this many times to the police and nothing is done
Luella D.Brown
Preservation of the Gift and Legacy of the Frank Cudell Estate. The century old gift of Cudell Commons deserves more than the current land grab by the Cleveland CMSD.
Cudell Commons have long been undervalued by the city of Cleveland (the rightful caretaker) and an uneasy 'shared space' among the City of Cleveland and the CMSD. The highly irregular "planning exercise" allowed by the city and undertaken by CMSD consultants, resulted in a secret plan to double the space used for educational purposes and discard historic tree growth and land use (that were part of the Cudell legacy). The Cudell family gift was reaffirmed in the last several months with a visit from a living family member. The gift included the historic family home, now a Fine Arts Center, land the is now a rec center, and the space used for Marion C. Seltzer School. Added to these historic uses, a highly significant memorial in the name of Tamir Rice provides a lasting memory of the tragic shooting and the beauty of Tamir's young life.
A recent court ruling rejected a public desire for an injunction. However, that action should not be taken as permission to ignore the purpose of the Cudell gift. The city, CMSD, and highly motivated residents should by convened by the Mayor and the Council members to chart out a balanced and uplifting plan that will provoke pride and peace for generations to come!
Jay Westbrook
Cudell park trees
Old growth trees can not be replaced, removing them from the park is a huge mistake. These trees should be preserved and celebrated.
Cheryl Baker
Misconstrued Tittles to Names of Avenues./Property.
Misconstrued Titles of Property can deminish the value of the property because of a word decietfully used in the Nameing of the property. For a safer residential l neighborhood, A request to re-Name the Tittle and Avenue of battery Park ave. is being requested.

The word battery is a oldfashion word phrased for the Topic of Violence of Crime.
Phrases of battery is (Battered Women Shelter.)
It was battery when an identity stoped being stolen at the shelter/.pavilion/.park/.playground/.apartment
My Conclusion is a request to re-Name the Tittle of the Loft and the Avenue of Battery Park Ave.
Re-Naming Battery Park Loft and Battery Park Ave. is to create happy Neighbors and less Violence.
Member of North West Neighborhood - Council 15.
Council can send me an invitation to the meeting for the Name Change. Thanki you.



Majeeda Ali
Saving Tree canopy and Cudell Park
Mayor Bibb now that youare a climate mayor and have realized the importance of trees and green space, I am asking you to intervene on the decision that was made to decimate Cudell park and most of its trees. The park is to be used to create a new Marion Seltzer school. But Cudell Park was given to the city to be a park forever according to Frank Cudell's 1906 will. Please help us to find a happy medium by intervening in building a reconstructed school on the current footprint and save the park and green space. I believe Mayor Bibb if you are truly committed to being a climate mayor, you along with Dr Morgan will remedy the situation.
Intervention led by you will save Cudell Park, will benefit the children, the community and city overall.
Be a hero Mayor Bibb
Jamie Lee Brazier
Your humanity
I can start off this plea by listing names of children that have been murdered that you’ve never heard of.
I can say their names and their stories but if you had any decency for human life other than yourself you wouldn’t be in this situation. So what I’m going to do instead is ask you to imagine your life. Your house. Your family. Your neighbors and friends. I want you to imagine your partner being killed by a bomb paid for by our tax dollars and that same bomb destroyed your home you’ve worked many years for. I want you to imagine a child that you love dearly. And that same child is stuck in a car with 5 family members that have been murdered and they call an ambulance to rescue her. But she and those ambulance workers are killed. I want you to imagine your whole world turned upside down. I want you to imagine finding a place of refuge in a cold wet tent but then being forced to leave 9 times to a place that was promised safety but once again is being bombed. The only escape is through a foreign country that is charging you thousands of dollars for your safety.

Now, I know what you must be thinking. This would never happen to me. But let me tell you one thing I’ve learned in my 30 years of life is that it can be you. In every instance you think “no, that couldn’t be me. It most certainly can be you. “

And I want you to know if it were you in that situation I would be fighting for you. We all would be fighting for you. Because no one in this world deserves to be treated the way Palestinians have been treated. But it’s sad that you wouldn’t even fight for yourself. That’s the real sadness when you can do so little to stop this genocide yet you’d rather have your paycheck from aipac.

Put yourself in Palestinian shoes. And realize the REAL terrorist is the state of Israel. We NEED a ceasefire now.
Manar Noubani