Arlington creates committee to study term limits voters approved in 2018 - The Dallas Morning News

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The Arlington City Council voted 7-2 in favor of creating a Term Limits Advisory Committee that could create a new ballot measure to change city council and mayoral term limits that voters approved in 2018.

The committee will assist with advising the council on any matters related to term limits or lengths, assistant city manager Jennifer Wichmann said at Tuesday’s council meeting. The committee would meet three times and see if any recommendations to council were appropriate, she said.

Council members Marvin Sutton and Barbara Odom-Wesley opposed the committee’s creation and did not vote for the measure.

Sutton cited the election in November 2018, in which more than 61,000 votes were cast for a petition ballot that imposed term limits, compared with more than 36,000 against. That vote changed the city’s constitution, limiting city council members and the mayor to three two-year terms, with a maximum of 12 total years in office.

The petition, which garnered 11,000 signatures, and election results show that residents were informed about the term limits issue and knew what they were voting for, Sutton said.

“I think it’s doing a disservice to the election,” Sutton said. “I think it’s doing a disservice to our citizens to even create this term limits committee, which is so divisive in nature.”

Odom-Wesley said she didn’t see the sense of urgency in creating the committee and thought the city needed more experience before creating it.

“Maybe we need a few more years experience, say five years experience with this and look at the advantages and disadvantages again,” she said.

Council member Helen Moise said residents voted for specific limits and didn’t have any input on the length. She said residents should have a chance to participate and voice their opinion because they didn’t the first time.

She added that the council could decide not to put the results from the committee on the ballot, but that they should at least be part of the conversation.

“We don’t know what they’re gonna bring back,” she said. “We might not like it.”

Council member Sheri Capehart said she doesn’t think any council members want the committee to terminate term limits, but instead to let them have a public discussion.

It is anticipated that the council will appoint committee members at their next meeting on July 7.

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