Bossier City Councilman Chris Smith, from right, and Bossier City Mayor Tommy Chandler listen as David Crockett speaks during the Tuesday, July 30, 2024, Bossier City Council meeting at the Bossier City Municipal Complex in Bossier City, La. A member of the group which for two years has been working to now is suing the city in hopes of forcing its council members to allow residents to vote on the issue. A member of the Bossier City Term Limits Coalition on Friday filed a writ of mandamus, a court order directing city officials to perform their legal duties, in a Bossier Parish district court demanding the Bossier City Council call for an election on establishing term limits before Aug.
27. The lawsuit follows months of fighting over the term limits question, most recently after the council voted down a resolution which would've allowed Bossier City residents soon to cast a vote on the issue following the delivery of a new citizen petition. The Bossier City Term Limits Coalition recently delivered to the council a , this one free from the errors which .
The Bossier City Charter required the city council, when presented with a valid citizens' petition calling for changes to the founding document, either be enacted by the council as written or placed the ballot on the next election. The council last week asking the Louisiana Bond Commission to put the matter on an upcoming ballot. After being recently presented with a petition calling for term limits about which the city attorne.