One Rockland town supervisor has done an about-face on term limits and thinks his own town should scrap the law he helped create last decade. Another says there’s already a natural term-limit process and it’s called “elections” and they’re based on trust. Clarkstown supervisor George Hoehmann is going to court to try to nullify his town’s term limits law which would prevent him from running for a third term, and there’s a public hearing tonight in New City to discuss whether to repeal the law. But Howard Phillips, Haverstraw’s long-time supervisor, says there is power in continuity, but it doesn’t come easy…
Supervisor Hoehmann, Councilman Don Franchino and resident Thomas Foley filed a lawsuit in Rockland County Supreme Court last week claiming the town’s 2014 term limits law is unconstitutional. No other Rockland town has term limits. Tonight’s public hearing in Clarkstown on whether to repeal their term limits law is being held in the Town Hall Auditorium on Maple Avenue in New City at 6pm.