Free
$0
- Remarks builder, timing, practice clock and speaker cards: always free, no account
- One issue notebook with 1 issue, 12 entries and 2 saved drafts
Garfield Heights · public comment · unofficial
You have the floor. Use it well.
Floorcard helps you get ready to speak at a City Council meeting. Write what you want to say, see how long it takes to say it, practise against the clock, and bring a large-print card to the microphone.
Write my remarks How a meeting works
Free. No account. Nothing you type in the remarks builder is kept.
From kitchen table to microphone
-
At home
Write it
Four short boxes walk you through it: who you are, what you are asking for, why it matters, and what you want Council to do. Or write it your own way in one box.
Open the remarks builder -
As you write
Time it
Floorcard counts your words and shows how long they take to say at your pace: slow and clear, steady, or brisk. If you are over, it tells you how many words to cut.
Check my time -
The night before
Practise and print
Read it aloud against a big countdown clock that warns you at 30 seconds. Then print a large-print speaker card to hold at the microphone.
Try the practice clock
From the City's own council page
When Council meets
As listed on garfieldhts.org/157 when we read it on October 31, 2026. Check that page before you go: schedules change, and only the City's page is official.
- Regular meetings
- Second and fourth Monday of each month, 7:00 p.m.
- Caucus
- 6:30 p.m., before each meeting
- Where
- Council Chambers, Civic Center, 5407 Turney Road
- Agendas
- Posted the Friday before each meeting, on the City's website and around the city
Issue notebook
Follow one matter from first reading to the vote.
Local decisions often take several meetings. A Floorcard notebook keeps your own record of one issue or many: what happened at each meeting, where it stands as you saw it, your saved remarks, and a date to look again.
- Private link. No account, no email, no name.
- What you write is encrypted with your link: our database alone cannot read it.
- Print a one-page brief, or download everything as a spreadsheet.
Example
Repaving our street
- Sep 14Read the agendaIntroduced
Street program listed. Ours is not named yet.
- Sep 28Spoke at public commentFirst reading
Asked that our block be considered. 2:41 of 3:00.
- Oct 12Watched the videoSecond reading
Look again at the next meeting.
Prices
Most useful
Floor Pass
$1.95 a month or $19.50 a year
- Up to 30 issues, 600 entries and 120 drafts in one notebook
- CSV download of the whole notebook
- Issue briefs and "look again" calendar reminders
Meeting Week
$1.00 once
- Everything in the Floor Pass for 7 days
- For the week you are getting ready to speak
Floor Pass $1.95 a month or $19.50 a year per notebook, or a Meeting Week for $1.00: free during preview.
Preview: checkout is not switched on yet, so every notebook gets the Floor Pass free. Nothing is charged and there is no payment form on this site.