{"id":345907,"date":"2026-06-22T18:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345907\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:28:08","slug":"city-of-fort-worth-changes-public-comments-procedure-at-council-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345907\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Fort Worth changes public comments procedure at council meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpeakers at Fort Worth City Council meetings must follow a new procedure starting at the June 23 meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>According to a city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortworthtexas.gov\/news\/2026\/6\/cso-signin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a>, registration to speak at council meetings is available when the meeting agenda is posted. Speakers must go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortworthtexas.gov\/departments\/citysecretary\/appear-at-council\/Council-Meeting-Speaker-Registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">online<\/a> and filter the meeting by date and type of meeting at the top right of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers need to click on the link for the meeting agenda and complete the form sections. Residents must register to speak no later than two hours before the start of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Other options include calling the city secretary\u2019s office or completing a speaker card at the city secretary\u2019s office at Fort Worth City Hall no later than two hours before the start of a meeting, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>Residents can speak at meetings or provide a written statement. They must select if they are for\/against\/neutral\/undecided about the item on the agenda to provide a comment on it.<\/p>\n<p>Residents must also select the council members associated with their district residency, according to the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortworthtexas.gov\/departments\/citysecretary\/appear-at-council\/Council-Meeting-Speaker-Registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speakers at Fort Worth City Council meetings must follow a new procedure starting at the June 23 meeting.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4519,116,118,117,123389,123390],"class_list":["post-345907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-city-council","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-public-speaker","tag-speak-at-fort-worth-city-council-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}