Wichita proposes longer term limits for mayor and city council

Wichita’s mayor and city council members could decide Tuesday whether they should be able to serve an extra four years.

Under a city law passed by voters in 1991, Wichita’s mayor and council members are limited to two consecutive four-year terms.

The City Council can put the question on the ballot again, if they so choose. But a proposed chartered ordinance on Tuesday’s city council agenda would allow the mayor and city council members themselves to vote on whether to extend that to three terms.

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