6,400 / 72.2% Yes votes ...... 2,461 / 27.8% No votes

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Measure V does not specify a particular number of terms to which a Council Member would be limited, but seeks the opinion of the voters as to whether or not they approve of the general concept of limiting the terms of Campbell City Council Members. If the City Council elects to adopt term limits, the City Council will need to submit an ordinance specifying the limitations on Council terms to the voters at a subsequent election for their approval. If the majority of the voters voting at the subsequent election then approved the specific term limits, the term limits would apply prospectively to City Council terms commencing on or after the effective date of the term limits ordinance.

WILLIAM SELIGMANN
City Attorney

Vote YES on Measure V!

You thoroughly clean your house each spring, you should do the same with your politicians. After 8 years they no longer perform as well as they did when they were new. Just like our cars and everything else, they wear down and out!

Ask yourself, after 8 years doing the same job, do you bring the same energy to your job, has the edge come off of your passion? Are politicians' perspectives fresh and uncluttered, are their minds open, do they question the status quo, or have they become the status quo?

It is only natural as you participate in decisions that you begin to take a proprietary ownership of the policies and directions of those decisions. How many terms before a councilmember starts saying, MY CITY, MY MONEY, MY, MY, MY.. We must not let the politicians remain in office that long, for they begin to think that they work for the city and forget that they work for THE PEOPLE. When politicians think it is INAPPROPRIATE for the public to vote on an issue, they have been in office too long!

Your YES vote on this Term Limit Advisory will tell your council representatives that it is not their city, but yours! Take back your city, take back your city council.

Bob Dougherty and Matthew Dean support Term Limits and this Term Limit Advisory measure. We urge you to confirm your support of Term Limits by voting YES on Measure V!

The undersigned authors of this primary argument in favor of ballot Measure V at the General Municipal election to be held November 3, 1998 hereby state that such argument is true and correct to the best of their knowledge and belief.

ROBERT S. DOUGHERTY

MATTHEW T. DEAN

(No arguments against Measure V were submitted)