PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION:
If any person wishes to address the City Commission, the person shall sign up in the
Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N. Porter Riverview Ballroom lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to
the Mayor. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker should approach the podium,
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 Commission in a representative
capacity, the attorney, or other representative shall also sign up in the Broward Center for
the Performing Arts - Mary N. Porter Riverview Ballroom lobby. A member of the City
Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker
should approach the podium, 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 Mayor
shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the
Mayor, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Mayor
in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City
Commission meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Commission meeting
having been warned by the Mayor 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 Commission 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.
