To the Honorable Registrar of Voters of the County of San Diego: We, the undersigned,

registered and qualified voters of the County of San Diego, hereby propose an initiative measure
to amend the Charter of the County of San Diego. We petition you to submit this measure to the
Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego for submission of the measure to the voters of
the County of San Diego at the earliest general or special election for which it qualifies. The
measure provides as follows:

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TERM LIMITS CHARTER AMENDMENT

The People of the County of San Diego hereby ordain and enact as follows:

SECTION 1. TITLE.

This charter amendment shall be known as the County Board of Supervisors Term Limits Charter
Amendment.

SECTION 2. FINDINGS AND DECLARATIONS.

A. The same politicians have run San Diego County for years, but they have failed to address
the pressing issues facing our County – issues like inadequate health care, ever-increasing traffic,
and fire protection.

B. These career politicians have become so entrenched that they are routinely re-elected, even
though they’ve lost touch with the people of San Diego County. Indeed, no incumbent
supervisor in San Diego County has lost a re-election bid in more than two decades.

C. We need new leaders in San Diego County – leaders with new ideas to improve the quality of
life in our County and leaders who are not captive to the special interests.

D. The hold that the career politicians have on the levers of power makes it difficult for qualified
challengers to compete for office, much less succeed in being elected to the Board of
Supervisors.

E. We need reasonable limits on the terms that a person can serve to end the reign of career
politicians and to promote the opportunity for new leaders to serve the best interests of our
community, not the special interests.

SECTION 3. PURPOSE AND INTENT.

In enacting this charter amendment, it is the purpose and intent of the people of the County of
San Diego County to:

A. Encourage qualified candidates to seek public office by placing reasonable limitations upon
the number of terms which may be served by members of the Board of Supervisors in their
lifetimes.
B. Ensure that the public interest is served rather than the special interests by promoting fresh
leadership to address the pressing problems facing San Diego County.

SECTION 4. CHARTER AMENDMENT.

The Charter of the County of San Diego is hereby amended to add Section 401.5 to Article IV, as
follows:

Section 401.5: Term Limits.

(a) No person may serve for more than two terms as a Supervisor, regardless of district
represented, after the effective date of this section.

(b) Any person who is elected or appointed to an unexpired term as a Supervisor after the
effective date of this section and who serves more than one-half of a full term of office shall be
deemed, for purposes of this section, to have served a full term.

(c) Any Supervisor who resigns or is removed from office with less than one-half of a full term
remaining until the expiration of the term shall be deemed, for the purpose of this section, to
have served a full term.

SECTION 5. AMENDMENT.

This initiative may be amended only by a majority of the voters of San Diego County at a regular
election.

SECTION 6. SEVERABILITY.

If any provision of this initiative or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held
invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this initiative which can
be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this
initiative are severable. In enacting this initiative, it is the express intent of the voters that, if any
provision of this initiative is held invalid, the remainder of the initiative shall be given full force
and effect.

SECTION 7. CONFLICTING INITIATIVES.

In the event that this initiative and another initiative measure or measures relating to term limits
shall appear on the same County election ballot, the provisions of the other initiative or
initiatives shall be deemed to be in conflict with this initiative. In the event that this initiative
receives a greater number of affirmative votes, the provisions of this initiative shall prevail in
their entirety, and the provisions of the other initiative shall be null and void.