I agree with Dore Mead on this one as well-- not only will it engender 
particular constituent ire, but it will psychologically and 
realistically hamper the current council from getting things done.  Two 
years may seem like a long time but I feel it is not enough time for a 
council member to get things done--we'll end up judging them on 
literally half-baked projects and ideas rather than on the fully cooked 
schemes they've got planned for us.

Gregory Luce
North Phillips (work)

Dore Mead wrote:

> The requirement should be applied in the future, however -- not retroactively.
>  Cutting short the current four-year terms would make a mockery of the
> elections held last November.  No one can say for sure whether the outcomes of
> some of the elections may have been different had voters known they were
> choosing someone to represent them for only two years.

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