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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PALESTINE AND GAZA
Stop funding the genocide in Gaza. Max Miller needs to be held responsible for his comment on “turning Gaza into a parking lot.” Citizens of Cleveland DO NOT stand with Israel…do your job…and REPRESENT us. Would it be okay to bomb a school if a school shooter was hiding there? No. Do better “representatives”. Our tax dollars should be used to aid homeless people, student loans, and healthcare. Instead, America sends our money to Israel so they can continue to commit war crimes. It’s sickening to see our so-called “representatives” support a genocide in 2023.
Dalia Al-Kolak
Palestine
I continue to be appalled at how quickly the mayor and council president threw out their support for israel following the events of october 7th but have NOTHING to say about the now over ten thousand dead palestinian civilians who are casualties of the aggression statements like theirs spurred on. you cannot speak for the people of cleveland in such matter when the people of cleveland are organizing for a ceasefire and you cannot claim to value democracy when you ignore them at every turn. End the siege on gaza now and free palestine.
Elizabeth Murphy
Palestine
The killing of children is being done with tax paying money. Without any consent, yet there is not a lot being done about the oil spill in the water. Our water was discolored for so long already and you have failed to fix our water system. Yet are sending all this billions for a war that has nothing to do with USA. .
Debbie
Palestine
I condemn the disgusting, racist and violent statements made by Max Miller on “turning Gaza into a parking lot”. I demand his immediate removal. He is endangering the lives of Arabs and specifically Palestinians. I condemn the bombardment on Gaza and demand an immediate ceasefire now.
Noor Hamed
Palestine 🇵🇸
Stop funding the genocide in Gaza.
Kane Tolinski
Genocide in Gaza
Stop the genocide in Gaza. Innocent children are dying, suffering, cold, hungry. Have a heart! Not everyone is involved with Hamas. Stop funding Israel, Netanyahu is sick.
Esther
City Divestment from Israel and a Ceasefire in Palestine
Adopt the resolution presented by Mr. Damaska to council at public comment on October 30th. Hundreds of people packed city hall to attendances never seen in decades, and gave the resolution a standing ovation. Listen to your constituents.

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Julia OMahoney
Palestine
Mayor Bibbs support of apartheid Israel and the genocide of the Palestinian people is extremely disappointing. I expect better from our city’s elected officials.
Kim K
Palestine
Shame on the mayor and his people for not condemning Israel. They are intentionally committing war crimes and murdering innocent people. The city needs to apologize to the Cleveland residents for supporting genocide. As the world is slowly waking up and realizing Israel bombs children with our tax dollars, we will remember where the Cleveland Mayor stood - committed to his wallet and not the lives on humans. Shame on you.
Naddia Dhalai
The support of Israel
What is happening is no war, it is genocide, it is ethnic cleansing. By their own admission, Israel is committing war crimes. They declared their intention to force, through the tragic military bombardment, more than 1 million Palestinians from their homes and Northern Gaza and ethnically cleanse them. A crime against humanity. They stated publicly and have donors in front of the eyes of the world the intention to deny 2.2 million people water, electricity, medicine, life saving equipment. And every minute children are being slaughtered by the artillery, by the relentless bombardment of residential complexes, of hospitals, of schools, of civilian infrastructure. We have Jewish people here in America, in Ohio, or in Canada and even in Israel calling it a genocide. Scholars and academics calling this genocidal. Before October 7th, Netanyahu appeared in front of UN General Assembly with a map of Israel that had removed all references to Palestine. A clear declaration of intent to destroy the Palestinian people and steal all of their land.
Mars