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Article: Bangor council to debate term limits repeal
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- September 28, 2002
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BANGOR - An attempt to strike term limits from the city charter is
likely to get a mixed reception at a Monday meeting of the City
Council.
The council, meeting as the Strategic Issues Committee, will
consider asking city voters in a November 2003 referendum whether
they want to repeal the limits that require councilors to take a year
off after two consecutive three-year terms,
City Councilor Joe Baldacci, who is leaving the council in
November after six years, asked the committee, comprising all nine
councilors, to consider the ballot initiative.
"We really have term limits of three years because that's when the