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.
