By Eli Walsh. Bay City News.
Voters in Redwood City and San Bruno will consider changes this fall to the term limits for each city's council.
San Bruno Measure BB would implement term limits for the City Council and the mayor for the first time in over 30 years. The city has not had term limits for local offices since 1988, when a state court struck down a voter-approved term limit measure that originally passed in 1977.
In turn, the measure would limit City Council members to three four-year terms and the mayor to six two-year terms. All officers would be limited to 12 consecutive years across the council and mayoralty.
The city commissioned a poll earlier this year on reinstating term limits and found support from 65.6 percent of likely voters. It would require a simple majority to be adopted.
Redwood City's Measure P focuses primarily on the existing two-year term limit for the city's mayor.
Currently, the seven-member city council elects one of them to be the city's mayor, with the title rotating among the council.
Measure P would change the mayor's term to one year in an effort to allow more councilmembers, who serve a single four-year term, to serve as mayor of the city.
Both measures are on the ballot for the November 8 general election. Measure P will require a simple majority to be adopted by the voters of Redwood City.
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