Comments on: City Council Candidate Barbara Kogerman Launches Laguna Hills Term Limits Initiative

By: Diana Prevot

Diana Prevot — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:46:41 +0000

Hi
You stopped by our house and I was impressed with you. Now I am really mad at those crooks and we really need you now. What can I do to help? I will walk with your flyers or whatever you need. Please call Diana Prevot 949 929 4097

By: Sergio c miranda

Sergio c miranda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:09:49 +0000

Please contact me I need more information about
this issue.
I do like to see how I can be part of this.
I not only see that the city council are taking to long
I also see that the community program are not what we all spect.

By: Well Red

Well Red — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:23 +0000

IrvineReporter is wrong about the term limits initiative being proposed in Laguna Hills by Barbara Kogerman vs. term limits as they exist in Irvine. Since Irvine elects a mayor separately from the council, a council member can be “termed out,” be elected mayor, then continue on the council as mayor until he/she is termed out of that office, then run to return to the city council. Result: little or no turnover, as long as he/she continues to be elected. In her Laguna HIlls proposal, two consecutive terms and you are off the council for at least 2 years, no esceptions–the mayor is one of the five council members, appointed by the council, who is elegible to serve on the city council only by the same standard everyone else is–two terms and you’re out, at least for two years. If the people want to return a council member after a two year break, so be it. But everyone must sit out for at least two years, mayor or not.
“Cook” makes the blanket statement that term limuits don’t work. There are certainly problems with term limits in the state legislature, but the council for small-ish Laguna Hills (33,000-plus citizens) is NOT the state legislature, and they are not likely to be dominated by lobbyists or staff–unless you count granting the city manager a compensation package that tops $460,000(!!!) being dominated by staff–but that’s another argument FOR term limits–council members who make decisions based on long-standing personal relationships rather than sound fiscal policies need to be replaced.

By: cook

cook — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:25:48 +0000

The term limit fad doesn’t work.

By: IrvineReporter

IrvineReporter — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:56:11 +0000

Term limit initiatives are well intended but ultimately the wrong answer. They’ll just end up with an Irvine scenario; the same people rotating different offices.