{"id":31116,"date":"2014-06-03T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=31116"},"modified":"2014-06-03T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T00:26:49","slug":"lee-county-commissioners-to-let-voters-decide-on-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/06\/lee-county-commissioners-to-let-voters-decide-on-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County Commissioners To Let Voters Decide On Term Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31117\" title=\"Congress\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"180\" \/>Lee County Commissioners have agreed future occupants of their position should spend no more than 12 years in the position.<\/p>\n<p>They voted unanimously Tuesday to put a referendum on the November ballot that would limit commissioners to three four-year terms.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Brian Hamman&#8217;s original proposal would have required a one-term break before someone could run again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A majority of citizens who spoke at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting were in support of term limits.<\/p>\n<p>Many voters supported eight years in order to save taxpayers money. They felt a 12-year term would significantly increase retirement benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Others voters felt term limits already exist at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every election we have the opportunity to re-evaluate our representatives on this commission and other elected offices and we can either send you back to continue to your good work or put someone else in your place,&#8221; said Janet Bunch of North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>There was some concern expressed, however, that the referendum could be challenged on constitutional grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County Commissioners have agreed future occupants of their position should spend no more than 12 years in the position. They voted unanimously Tuesday to put a referendum on the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":31117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}