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 - Abdo Room 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 - Abdo Room 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.
