Voters in Arlington will soon decide whether the mayor and city council members should serve longer terms, just four years after residents overwhelmingly approved term limits for those positions.
On Tuesday night, the Arlington City Council unanimously approved putting a measure on the ballot to increase the length of those terms to three years.
Current council members say three-year terms would allow them more time to focus on governing, instead of campaigning for the next election."So not only will we have more people running and serving on council, not only will we have a city government that's more responsive to citizens needs, we will also have a city government that works better for everybody," he said on Tuesday night.
In a 2018 special election, 62% of Arlington residents voted to limit those positions to three, two-year terms. Arlington Mayor Jim Ross said he and council members received"quite a bit" of citizen requests to put this issue on the ballot.
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