Charter change to allow Toledo mayor to run for 3rd term headed to elections board

Toledo City Council at a special meeting Wednesday voted to submit to the Lucas County Board of Elections a petition for a proposed charter amendment that would change consecutive term limits for the mayor’s office from two to three terms upon voter approval in the November general election.

Dozens of Toledo firefighters opposed to Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz getting a crack at running for a third term attended the meeting.

Toledo Firefighters Local 92, the union representing Toledo’s rank-and-file firefighters, has not had a contract since March. City officials, on Aug. 15, requested the parties enter mediation. In an Aug.16 letter to union members, union president Matt Tabb said the union would oppose the mayor for re-election.

“Local 92 intends to defeat him at the ballot box and the bargaining table,” the letter states.




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