Yaroslavsky did move to put in an alternate measure with language that would extend term limits but

The motion had been introduced at last week's meeting by County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, who represents much of the San Gabriel Valley.  The board agreed to delay a vote on the measure for a week to allow more people to weigh in on it.
When it was introduced last week, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky sounded the motion for being "disingenuous" because the language proposed in the measure said it would "limit" supervisors to five terms and makes no mention of the existing law that limits supervisors to three. He suggested that people would believe they were introducing terms limits to the board rather than increasing the number of terms they can serve.
"We should not mislead the public by the way we word the ballot measure," Yaroslavsky said last week. He introduced a motion at the meeting that would direct county counsel to change the language to make it clear the measure would increase the number of terms a supervisor can serve.
Yaroslavsky represents  beach communities from Venice to Malibu, most of the San Fernando Valley, and incorporated cities and Los Angeles neighborhoods between the beach and Glendale. To see a map of his district cheap airline and a list of communities,  click here .
The ballot measure would have allowed any board member serving on the board since before December of 2002 to serve five more terms after 2002, which is when term limits were first introduced for the Board.  That would mean several members, including Antonovich, would be eligible to serve much more than five terms.
Antonovich said he chose to introduce the measure to allow experienced board members to continue to serve.  He noted that four of the five elected representatives would be termed out in either 2014 or 2016.
In opposing the move, Yaroslavsky cheap airline said he was theoretically against term limits but spoke out against backing a measure that would allow long-serving board members to continue to be elected to office more than five times.
Yaroslavsky did move to put in an alternate measure with language that would extend cheap airline term limits but would block the four existing board members from running again after they are termed cheap airline out in 2014 or 2016. That motion failed to get a second backer and was not voted on.
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