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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Rainbow terrace building explosion 💥
I lived in Rainbow terrace apartments 14 yrs before I and my family lost everything on June 23rd 2025 and I have to say all of these so called resources for our situation in particular , I lost studio equipment and videography equipment I lost 35 years of music I created and I'm still residing on rainbow terrace apartments because I'm doing research and my own detective work because I don't trust that fact that it's criminals investigating criminals. I lost my emotional support animals, I lost my son who passed away 7 months before the explosion his memorabilia was destroyed and to top off everything, we wasn't allowed to go in and finish getting our belongings before they destroyed all of the evidence like there isn't a case going on
LORENZO SANDERS SR
Rainbow Terrace building explosion
Don't act like you don't you don't see us in the comments, it's 11 months from the explosion 💥 and we still haven't received any updates on why we displaced and left for dead by the property management and the entire city of Cleveland officials. Yall fumbled the families and have been in every way of sweeping us under the rug, and yall want us to keep voting, #NOCHECKNOVOTE
LORENZO SANDERS SR
Garden Valley Gas leak Explosion
The explosion changed me n my kids life we have been struggling ever since .It's terrible for the neglect of our apartment lead to the explosion we have lost everything and nobody cares people have lost lives the city don't care rainbow terrace gets over 40 million dollars in insurance but the families get nothing the mayor doesn't care about his people. If it happen in the suburbs I'm pretty sure their families would at least got any type of compensation. The whole city should be ashamed of themselves.
Andre Rowe
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
Hay did y'all sleep good because me and my kids didn't have a blessed day
Kyanna Bell
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
How would you feel and what would you do if the shoes was on y'all feet if it was y'all kids that was burned if it was y'all kids that have to go through surgery at surgery pain after pain my babies my family we did nothing to no body we was house people we love games video games we did everything as a family Mr.Cordale Sheffield was our king he loved us we was a family that prayed together but thanks to this explosion now our family is lost without him our family split up and we can't get it back wow yes I'm mad with a lot to say but no one will here or feel what we are going through GOD bless you all and I pray this never happens to y'all or hell maybe it should then you can feel our pain
Kyanna Bell
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
Good morning yes I'm still here remember me I'm the lady that lost her man Cordale SHEFFIELD in the June 23 2025 building explosion remember the lady also my kids lost their skin remember well we can't forget we still trying to make sense of it all we had a good life now we having hard time mentally we look good to the outside world but inside we fucked up y'all people sleep at night we don't we cry every day many times a day y'all don't y'all live a normal life we don't just think put your self in our shoes we want answers we deserve it WHY DID IT HAPPENED WHAT WAS THE CAUSE ANY ANSWERS
Kyanna Bell
6/23/2025 and what happened next
I use to have a lot of respect for the city of Cleveland political department, but now all of those years of respect has gone down the drain. To sit and watch 44 families including myself still struggle to get back on our feet mentally physically and financially , we're being treated like this shit never happened, every city official trying to sweep this apartment building explosion under the rug along with the 44 families, and that's not the humane thing to do, but now I see none of you are humane, let a whole year pass and still no reason to why we lost all of our belongings and homes. What's really going on in those departments, crisis, public safety, health and osha,
LORENZO L SANDERS SR
Criminal investigating criminals in the Rainbow Terrace Apartments explosion
I am a survivor from the Rainbow terrace apartments building explosion, and I'm just now able to come around and talk about the tragedy that happened to me! And how I've been played with and neglected after I lost everything I owned 7 months after losing my 24 year old son
LORENZO L SANDERS SR
Rainbow terrace apartments building explosion and all of the neglect
June 23 2025 an apartment building explosion happened first in the history of Cleveland. 44 families were displaced and what happened afterwards was the worst thing the city could have done, NEGLECT THOSE FAMILIES THAT FACED A HISTORIC EVENT, the entire crisis management department failed, the red cross failed, the mayor failed the fire department failed, the department of safety failed
LORENZO L SANDERS SR.
The explosion that happened in Garden valley apartments
And then I'll be sitting here thinking right all these other fires that came upon hearing that happened y'all got answers for them ASAP but we just still struggling here it is almost a year still no answers what type of s*** is this again we low income f*** us right type of s*** is all
Kyanna Bell