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Group seeks term limits for Citrus Heights City Council members
By Stan Oklobdzija - stano@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, May 8, 2008
Story appeared in CITRUS HEIGHTS ORANGEVALE section, Page G1
A ballot initiative designed to limit the amount of time one person could serve on the Citrus Heights City Council hit a rocky start in its signature-gathering effort last weekend.
"It was not a good first turnout," said Jay Evans, president of Citizens for Citrus Heights, the group pushing for the term limits initiative. "We got a number of signatures, but nowhere near what I anticipated."
The initiative would prohibit any person from serving more than two consecutive terms on the Citrus Heights City Council. It would also apply retroactively, meaning that anyone already having served two terms before the initiative's passage would be barred from seeking a third.
The measure does allow someone to serve a third term if they sit out one election cycle, or two years. It also states that anyone elected or appointed to serve part of a term would be deemed to have served the full term.
The group set up a signature-gathering table in front of the Lowe's on Greenback Lane and Sunrise Boulevard on Saturday, Evans said, but most shoppers the group encountered came from outside of Citrus Heights.
Evans said the group would shift its strategy to precinct walking. He said the group would use voter registration data to identify active voters and target them.
The group has until the beginning of August to collect about 4,000 validated signatures in order to qualify for the ballot, Evans said. In order to ensure the group gets enough valid signatures, it probably needs between 5,000 and 5,500 total signatures, he said.
Were the ballot measure to gather the necessary signatures and be approved by the voters, it would bar some members of the current council from re-election.
Councilman Jeff Slowey would be barred from re-election this year, when his current term expires. Slowey was elected to the council in 2004 and appointed to fill a vacancy left by the late Mayor Bill Hughes in 2003.
Mayor Steve Miller, Vice Mayor James Shelby and Councilwoman Jeannie Bruins would all be barred from seeking re-election in 2010, when their terms expire, under the provisions of the proposed measure.
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