PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CRA BOARD:
If any person wishes to address the Board, the person shall sign up in Broward Center
for the Performing Arts - Abdo Room lobby. A member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff
will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to the Chair. After being recognized by
the Chair, the speaker should identify the agenda item in question, indicate support,
opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item, and then proceed to succinctly state the
speaker’s position or present information.
If an attorney, or any other person appears before the Board in a representative
capacity, the attorney, or other representative the person shall sign up in Broward
Center for the Performing Arts - Abdo Room lobby. A member of the City Clerk’s Office
Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the Chair, the speaker should
identify the client(s) being represented, and identify the agenda item in question. The
speaker shall then indicate the client’s support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda
item and then proceed to succinctly state the client’s position or present information on
behalf of the client(s).
Pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the
Chair shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions
of the Chair, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of
the Chair in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or
disturbs a City Board meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Board
meeting having been warned by the Chair to depart and who refuses to do so, may be
subject to arrest.
AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to
assist in viewing or hearing the City Board meetings or reading the agenda and
minutes for the meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 954-828-5002 at a
minimum of two days prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide
these services to you.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision
made by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at
such meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for
such purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the
proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which
the appeal is to be based.
