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7 <br /> MOUNDS VIEW <br /> VOTE YES CHARTER TERM LIMIT <br /> AMENDMENT <br /> NOVEMBER 8th <br /> Sample Ballot <br /> CITY CHARTER <br /> AMENDMENT <br /> Free our elected officials to govern in the <br /> INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: <br /> To vote for a proposed amendment, best interests of Mounds View, not <br /> complete the arrow pointing to the themselves. Lessening the emphasis on re-election <br /> word "YES" at the right of the will deflate the power of money and influence and put <br /> amendment. To vote against a <br /> proposed amendment, complete the the focus back where it belongs: on leadership and <br /> arrow pointing to the right of the problem-solving. <br /> word "NO". <br /> CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br /> COUNTY OF RAMSEY Lessen the power of special interests and <br /> STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> PACs, which actively oppose term limits because of <br /> SHALL SECTION 4.02 OF THE their strong investment in incumbents. <br /> MOUNDS VIEW CITY CHARTER <br /> BE AMENDED TO ADD THE <br /> FOLLOWING PROVISIONS? Reserve a place in government for fresh ideas <br /> SUBDIVISION 2. TERM LIMITS. and real-life experience, as our government's <br /> Notwithstanding any other founders intended. <br /> provision of law to the contrary, <br /> no person may file to be a <br /> candidate for election to a term Term Limits For Effective Leadership <br /> that would cause the person to History shows that our government can make a <br /> serve more than eight total years <br /> in the office of Mayor or in the '1 • ' I 1 . 1./i / • •.. 'i 1 h: our <br /> office of City Councilmember people. That is the purpose of limiting the terms of <br /> combined. elected officials. Our nation's founders put their faith <br /> SUBDIVISION 3. Service before in the power of ordinary citizens to govern themselves. <br /> January 1, 1995 shall not count But many of our elected officials seem to have <br /> toward determining total length of <br /> service. forgotten [rejected?] this idea. Term limits are the <br /> SUBDIVISION 4. SEVERABILITY. first step in a return to Citizen Government. <br /> If any part of this section shall be <br /> declared unconstitutional by Complete The YES Arrow For Better <br /> court, all others shall remain in p <br /> full force and effect. Government! <br /> YES 41411 <br /> NO 1 <br />