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 - 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 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 - 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 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.
