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Commissioners Court meetings are held virtually and in-person at:
1001 Preston, Suite 934, Houston, TX 77002
Appearance Request Form
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as information entered will not be saved.)
To request an appearance to speak at the Commissioners Court meeting, please complete the fields below. Once you have filled in the required information, be sure to click the submit button. Members of the public may attend, participate and/or address Commissioners Court in-person or may virtually access the meeting through the following link: https://agenda.harriscountytx.gov. Written comments may be emailed to CommissionersCourt@hctx.net. Members of the public who attend the meeting in-person may make comments by signing up to speak at https://appearancerequest.harriscountytx.gov/. To request an in-person appearance on the day of the Commissioners Court meeting, members of the public must report to the lectern outside the Commissioners
Courtroom at 1001 Preston, Suite 934, Houston, TX 77002, and complete an Appearance Request Form prior to the commencement of a meeting.
Members of the public who attend virtually may make comments by signing up to speak by no later than 8:00 a.m. on the day of the Commissioners Court meeting at https://appearancerequest.harriscountytx.gov/. If you sign up to speak virtually, you will be placed in a queue and will be called when it is your time to speak.
All persons speaking must indicate what items they are addressing. Speakers are not permitted to comment on issues not listed on the Appearance Request Form or on issues for which they have not registered to speak. Persons who fail to complete an Appearance Request form prior to the commencement of a meeting will not be permitted to address the court.
Rules of Conduct
The Clerk of the Court or another person designated by the presiding member of the court shall keep the time for speakers. Those persons who do not conduct themselves in an orderly and appropriate manner will be ordered to leave the meeting and recognition to speak may be refused at subsequent meetings of the court. Refusal to abide by the court’s order may result in a Contempt of Court Citation. Each member of the public who appears before the Court is limited to a total of three minutes to make his or her remarks on all agenda items unless the speaker has appeared before the Court on the same issue in any of the past three meetings, in which case the comment period may be limited to one minute. A member of the public who requests to speak about a topic that does not address a specific Agenda item will have a comment period of one minute, which will take place after all other speakers. If the total number of speakers registered to speak at a meeting of Commissioners Court is
greater than 25, the time for each speaker is reduced to 1 minute for all speakers. Each speaker is allowed either three minutes total if there are under 25 speakers registered or one minute total, if there are over 25 speakers registered, irrespective of how many items the speaker registers for.
* Denotes required information. Registration will not be processed if incomplete.
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