As I have said before I am just a person doing this on my own time
I might have missed a city near by that has a Council or Mayor with longer term lengths, but from my research here, Ontario wins by a bit.
This is not inherently a bad thing
If there are not problems with your city, then this is not an issue at all. If you aren’t a fan of how your city is run, then maybe it is 🤷.
Articles have been written about other city’s term lengths, but not Ontario?
The San Bernardino County Sentinel even wrote an entire article making it sound like Chino Hills was some sort of Mafia. They even used the phase “Cosa Nostra” in comparison, which I even think is kind of harsh. Chino Hills average term length is 13 compared to Ontario’s 20.75.
Some notes on the data
- Claremont and Chino Hills do this thing where they rotate the Mayor title every year, so I added up to total amount of time their current Mayor has spent as Mayor. I honestly think this is a cool idea, and had no idea this was a thing before doing this research.
- Some of these numbers were tough to track down, or I had to round +/- a year since the exact start dates were tough to find. Overall I think these numbers are close enough for the comparison that I am making here.
- The current Mayors of Chino and Montclair server pretty long terms as Council members before becoming Mayors. Even with these included it would not have swayed the averages too much.
- Eunice Ulloa of Chino served for 14 years as a City Council Member before Becoming mayor.
- Javier Dutrey of Montclair served for 22 years as a City Council Member before Becoming mayor.
