A Jacksonville city council member wants to tighten term limits for elected city officials, limiting them to two full terms, period.
It would apply to the mayor, sheriff, council members, school board members and constitutional officers.
Right now term limits at city hall and elsewhere in local government are capped at two consecutive terms, but the bill proposed by councilman Rory Diamond would limit officials to two terms total meaning they can’t sit out an election and then run again for the same position.“We need new blood, new people, new ideas,” he said. “Let’s have real term limits for Jacksonville.”
Diamond said Ordinance 123 will have a few weeks in committee and then a few weeks in front of city council. If it gets 10 votes from the council, the mayor would need to sign it and then, voters would get the final say on a change, with a referendum in the August primary election.“Incumbents are incredibly powerful. They have all the networks, they can fundraise. They can overwhelm someone with new ideas and new blood,” Diamond said.
Holland served on city council for five and half years, supervisor of elections for ten years, and he’s now in his seventh year as property appraiser. He’s filed to run for Supervisor of Elections again in the spring of 2023.But Diamond’s bill wouldn’t affect Holland’s ability to run for a third term as supervisor of elections next year. The change wouldn’t take effect until 2027 at the earliest, and Diamond says, that could be pushed back even more.
“Term limits, in general, have become very common. This sort of limitation in local government is not especially common,” he said.Diamond said he’ll likely have to push the effective date back to 2031 and is planning to submit an amendment grandfathering in current officials meaning the existing term limits would continue to apply to them.Copyright 2022 by WJXT News4Jax - All rights reserved.
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