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Making a Public Comment

Council welcomes public comment before regular council meetings. Fill out the online form below for your chance to make a public comment at the next regular Monday Council meeting.  Please read the revised rules and procedures. 

Registrations can also be submitted:

* In person at Cleveland City Hall, Room 220, 601 Lakeside Ave. NE. Paper forms are available to register.

* If you don't want to fill out the online form below, you can download this form and fill it out, and email it to publiccomment@clevelandcitycouncil.gov or drop it off at Council offices. (Parking at City Hall on the upper lot is free on Mondays after 5 pm when Council is meeting.) If you need assistance, language, or disability, go here to make a request (at least 3 days in advance.) 

Make a Comment in Person

Registrations to speak up to 3 minutes at a regular council meeting can be submitted between noon Wednesday and 2 pm on the Monday before a regular 7 pm council meeting. (Early, incomplete and false registrations are not accepted.) Only the first 10 are accepted.  


Make a Comment Online

If you don't want to speak at a Council meeting, please submit your written comments below. 


Public Comments

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Doom development concept
There are a number of problems with the whole brook park doom concept.

NUMBER 1. - State of Ohio backed a private entity over local control of how NE Ohio develops our region. So much for local control.

NUMBER.2 - Public subsidized financing for a private company to cannibalize monies flowing into core city and small businesses plus fans through higher ticket prices.

NUMBER 3 - potential federal funds to modify sections of 480 and 71 to improve traffic in and out of doom and airport. Couldn't the federal dollars be better utilized for say incentives to Ford to build a modern car assembly facility on the site? Make America Great Again and onshore manufacturing.

NUMBER 4 - The promise of more events. There are none. The doom will cannibalize events from other civic owned facilities.

NUMBER 5 - Fan experience Pre event and actual Event and Post event will change. Choises will be reduced while event ticket prices increase.

NUMBER 6 - site parking capacity is 11 to 18K depending on whether jimmys world brownstown lifestyle center is built. Doom needs spaces for 28K. Is there a plan for overflow demand to park on Snow or Brook Park and transport to doom site?

NUMBER 7 CLE has accomplish wonders turning city into a top notch place for major events, Hollywood productions, and tourism. The city is walkable, plenty of Downtown hotels, restaurants and activities for guests. The doom in brook park doent fit into the model that made CLE a destination city. It's not walkable, difficult for guest to get to and isolated.

NUMBER 8 doom subsidy indirectly subsidizes jimmys world brownstown lifestyle center. It's a terrible idea. Surrounding area median income is bottom quartile and can't support its retail, or restaurants.

NUMBER 9 what city in the world has desired apartment or townhouses or condo sold under luxury label (all new construction is sold as luxury to justify pricing points needed to earn a return on the capital) built next to regions major international airport?

NUMBER 10 late summer and autumn in CLE is best time of year. Doom trades those 8-10 weeks outside watching football for season long indoor to avoid maybe 4 weeks of potential very cool or wet and cold weather. People forget half attendees can't park at doom they will need to walk a mile plus in the rain or cold to and from doom. That will cause the same numbers of no shows
Brian J German
Browns Stadium
If feasible, suggest negotiating the annexation of the proposed new airport location to the City of Cleveland, keeping the team in its rightful municipality.
Kamms Corners Resident
Browns
As a resident of Cleveland and a manager in the sports and entertainment industry (currently at Rocket Arena) it is heartbreaking to lose the stadium to a suburban neighborhood. They will face extreme staffing issues, seeing that a majority of the staff currently does not have they’re own transportation and the city as a whole will be losing millions in income tax revenue from current employees some of which have worked at the stadium since it was built. The mayors deal with owners was a deal with the devil that will haunt this city for decades
Jamie Tuttle
Browns Stadium
Keep the Browns downtown, they do not belong in Brookpark!!!
Steven D Hesketh
Cleveland
Cleveland is corrupt mayor Bibb and everyone… the mayor does not care about Cleveland and nobody on council does my dad said a long time ago Cuyahoga County is corrupt and they still are
Sue
100 million
You better take the 100 million. The NFL is bigger than the City of Cleveland and the Browns and they will pull the franchise. You’ll be left with a dumpster of a stadium on your greatest natural resource that you’ll only be playing high school soccer in.
Get your heads out of your A$$e$.
Terry Gardner
wCSB/idea stream takeover
Dear city council Laura Bloomberg and IdeaStream overlook both the city and family connections when they ripped the radio station from the hands of the students. Students grow older busier and move onto the next chapter in the lives there’s a natural distance that grows between them and the older generation. My grandson had a show called Mudride that I look forward to listening to every Friday listening allowed me to stay connected with him even if it was for one hour a week and only through the airwaves. I’m sure this is the same for families of students borh local and out of state. Laura Bloomberg and IdeaStream did not look past the bottom line of a spreadsheet when they made their decision. Again, they not only rob the students of the station, but also their families of this connection.
Jeff Groves
Browns Stadium
I have worked in Cleveland for 36 year on Carnegie and attend many sports/music events downtown. Take the $100 MIL and stop wasting tax payers money on stupid lawsuits when the team is going to move to Brook Park anyway. The stadium there will make the region better. I have been to dome stadiums in Indy, Detroit, Vegas etc. The team is moving 1000 feet outside the city not to Columbus. The ENTIRE region will benefit other then a waste of space downtown for 8 games/uses a year on VALUABLE land. The city of Cleveland will benefit more from a dome stadium being used 20-40 times a year, maybe a Final Four and other large events that won't happen in an open air stadium by the lake. I am 55 years old and am tired of the crappy weather conditions like last Sunday playing outside. Maybe Mayor Bibb could have got $125 MIL but wasting tax payer money to keep this dragging on makes the city look foolish and I am tired of Cleveland looking like a loser throughout the country. The new WNBA team will pick up a lot of the slack. Most people get loaded at muni lot so the businesses will not loose as much as they think. No one i know drives downtown to drink and watch the game.
Jason Greene
Brook Park Browns
At every step in the process of the Browns announcing their departure, all I have seen is weakness and incompetence from both the mayor and council. Every time you speak, weakness and ineptitude oozes from your pores. It is very obvious to me now how some guy came in and steamrolled you. You should consider resigning and forcing the next generation into your offices. None of you are good for anything other than keeping a seat warm.
Mark Stockwell
WCSB Shutdown
WCSB's shutdown by CSU and Ideastream without student or public input, is a loss not just for students, but for the entire community. WCSB offered diverse, thoughtful programming and real opportunities for student leadership and growth which is something no generic, insincere "internship" with "true professional growth opportunities" can replicate. As a public university, CSU should be protecting student resources, not eliminating them. I urge Cleveland City Council to support the resolution to restore WCSB and stand up for student voice, free expression, and culture.
On a personal note, before I moved to this state, I met a bookseller who recommended WCSB to me and was instantly delighted by the range and unique array of genre and programming. WCSB became one of the reasons I was excited to move to Cleveland.
Kristen Tetzmann