October 14, 2008
Fosters
Longer terms for Rochester city councilors? Where is the consensus calling for it?
It was a topic raised at a recent “Meeting with the Mayor” — one of the monthly opportunities for Mayor John Larochelle’s constituents to confront him or simply converse with the city’s highest elected official. With only the mayor and three other persons in attendance, last month’s meeting seemed to fall into the conversational category.
Four-year terms for the mayor and city councilors and elected board members?
“If I had my way the terms would be four years,” Larochelle said, “but it would be on an alternating cycle so every two years half of the members would be up for re-election.