NEWPORT BEACH : Term-Limit Measure Qualifies for Ballot
The county Registrar of Voters has confirmed that Newport Beach residents seeking to limit City Council members to two terms have collected enough signatures to qualify a measure for the November ballot.
City Clerk Wanda E. Raggio received word Tuesday that of the 8,553 signatures submitted in support of the term-limit measure, 6,833 were verified as registered voters. Term-limit supporters needed at least 6,504 valid signatures, or 15% of the city’s registered voters.
The council must still decide whether to officially place the measure on the November ballot. It will take up the issue on Monday night.
The measure would limit council members to two consecutive four-year terms, although it would allow them to sit out one term and run again.
If voters approve the initiative in November, it would go into effect for the 1994 elections, preventing all of the current council, except first-term Councilman John Hedges--whose wife, Maria, chaired the petition drive--from running again.
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