Update / Follow-up on the news
It was more than 14 years ago that voters first approved term limits for elected city officials, but it is only now that City Council members must leave after two consecutive four-year terms.
The council recently passed an implementing resolution for Measure O, which city voters overwhelmingly approved Nov. 5. Measure O authorizes City Council term limits.
Voters had passed a term-limit measure in 1982, but an Orange County Superior Court judge ruled that ordinance invalid because the state had not empowered non-charter cities like La Palma to enact term limits.
A new state law last year, however, authorized non-charter cities to have term limits if approved by voters. The City Council put Measure O on the Nov. 5 ballot so that voters could express their opinion again on term limits.
Ironically, while voters on Nov. 5 resoundingly approved term limits, they simultaneously reelected Councilwoman Eva Miner Bradford to her third consecutive four-year term.
--COMPILED BY KIMBERLY BROWER, BILL BILLITER AND JENNIFER LEUER
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