Nashville voters resoundingly defeated two proposed charter amendments that would have changed the Metro Council. The council size and member term limits will stay the same.
For the fourth time in recent years, voters refused to allow city council members more time to serve. The limit will remain at two terms, or eight years total.
Voters dealt a similar defeat to Amendment 2, which tried to shrink the council from 40 members to 27.
Melaton Bass-Shelton, a therapist at Centerstone, voted against shrinking the council, saying the large group helps residents.
“I think we need to have a diverse group and the more you shrink them, the less our voice gets heard, clearly,” she says.
The votes on these amendments weren’t even close — they failed by margins of almost two-to-one.
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