Council and committee meetings
The City Council meets according to a certain monthly cycle. First are three committee meetings and the last Wednesday of the month the public council meeting. Council meetings are generally open to the public. You can attend the meeting, watch it live from home or listen to it afterwards. You also have the opportunity to speak during a meeting.
View agenda, documents or meeting?
For meeting dates, agendas, meeting documents, committee and City Council meeting minutes or the live stream or recording of meetings, check the Administrative Information website.
Expressing your opinion (speaking up)
You can share your views with the council in several ways:
- Through the speakers' quarter on a proposal on a council committee agenda. You do need to register for this in advance with the Municipal Clerk’s Office. This is still possible until just before the start of the committee meeting. You will have approximately five minutes of speaking time.
- The speakers' plaza allows you to inform committee members about a current and urgent social topic or issue that is not on the meeting agenda. Please note that you should register at the Municipal Clerk’s Office no later than 24 hours before the start of the meeting. Again, you will have approximately five minutes of speaking time.
- By submitting a citizens' initiative, which you can then explain at a council meeting. The rules for this can be found in the citizens' initiative regulation.
Report to the Municipal Clerk’s Office
Would you like to give your opinion during the council information evening? Or do you have questions about council or committee meetings, for example? Then contact the Municipal Clerk’s Office.
Visiting address: Raadhuisplein 1, Heerlen
- Teun Zwemmer (registrar): 045-5604411
- Camiel Bartholomé (MW and ROLO committees): 045-5605035
- Alexandra van der Weijden (EBF and civic engagement committee): 045-5605068