[EL] Extending Terms At Same Election?

[David A. Holtzman]

Hello Again [EL],
Here's another question about the L.A. City election-in-progress:

The City Charter now specifies 4-year terms.
On Facebook I saw a candidate's wife chanting "Four More Years!" for her 
incumbent husband (Jose Huizar [again!], who's being challenged by 
Gloria Molina).
But if proposed Charter Amendments 1&2 pass, the Charter would extend 
that to "Five-And-A-Half More Years" (for all city offices elected at 
the regular elections in 2015 and 2017).
[The point of the amendments is to align the dates of city elections 
with county-state-federal elections, starting in 2020.]

Does extending terms by amending the charter at a contemporaneous 
election serve to give voters in a City Council election sufficient 
notice that they're getting someone for Five-And-A-Half, not Four?
What about voters in his district who vote NO, or who don't vote, on the 
charter amendments?
Can someone sue and force the terms of the winners in the 2015 
election-in-progress to end in mid-2019 as specified in the now-current 
charter, not late in 2020?
If so, who?

   - dah


-- 
David A. Holtzman, M.P.H., J.D.
david at holtzmanlaw.com

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