Ord 78-2020 Amending Code of Ordinances Term Limits 12/15/2020Ordinance No. 78-2020
Ordinance amending Sections 2-28(b) and 2-29(1) and (2) of the Wichita
Falls Code of Ordinances to provide for changes to term limits for City
Council members as approved by the voters at the November 3, 2020
general -special election; and providing an effective date
WHEREAS, the citizens of Wichita Falls passed Charter Proposition IX during the
special -general election held November 3, 2020; and,
and,
WHEREAS, such proposition increased terms of office for City Council members;
WHEREAS, this change requires amendment to the existing Code of Ordinances.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINCED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS, THAT:
1. Chapter 2, Article II, Division 1 of the Wichita Falls Code of Ordinances is
hereby amended at Sections 2-28 and 2-29 so that such sections shall
hereafter read as follows:
"Sec. 2-28. — Election; term of office.
(a) The mayor and one councilor shall be elected from the city at large. The
other five councilors shall be elected from the five single -member districts. Any candidate
for councilor from a district must receive a plurality of the votes cast for the district in
which the councilor resides. The mayor and the councilor at large must each receive a
plurality of the votes cast in the entire city.
(b) The mayor and each councilor, upon election, shall serve a term of three
years, except as provided in Charter section 12, and shall continue to serve until a
successor is duly elected and sworn into office. Members of Council elected prior to 2020
shall serve a term of two years.
Sec. 2-29. - Elections.
To implement the system of single -member representation and ensure an orderly
transition in the city council:
(1) District one, district two and the position of councilor at -large will stand for
regular election in 2021 and every three years thereafter.
(2) District three, district four, district five and the mayor's position will stand for
regular election in 2020 and every three years thereafter."
This ordinance shall become effective January 15, 2021.
PASSED AND APPROVED this the 15t" day of December, 2020.
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ATTEST:
City Clerk