Montgomery County voters will be asked to decide this November whether the county executive should be limited to serving two terms.
The County Council voted Tuesday to approve placing the referendum for a two-term limit on the Nov. 5 general election ballot while also criticizing the process that allows citizen-led initiatives to result in ballot questions. The current term limit is three four-year terms, or 12 years.
The initiative calling for a referendum on a two-term limit is sponsored by the Committee for Better Government, which is led by former Montgomery County Republican party chair and unsuccessful 2022 GOP county executive nominee Reardon Sullivan. The committee submitted a petition to the Montgomery County Board of Elections to request that the referendum be placed on the ballot. The petition was required to meet a threshold of 10,000 valid signatures to appear on the ballot.
County election director Boris Brajkovic sent a letter to Sullivan on Wednesday informing him that the county elections board had validated 15,956 petition signatures, allowing the ballot initiative to move forward.
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