Bourbonnais trustee looks to put term limits for board on April ballot

Bourbonnais Village Board Trustee Craig Toepfer wants to limit future board members to three consecutive terms.He has begun circulating petitions to put the issue on the April 6, 2027, ballot.Toepfer, who was appointed to the Village Board two years ago and is seeking to retain the seat in April, said he’s always been a “big advocate” of term limits.“I think most people are,” he said. “I believe that having fresh people is always a way of keeping new ideas going strong.”Toepfer said he needs to collect 600 signatures of Bourbonnais residents who are registered to vote by Jan. 4 to get the issue on the ballot.He chose to go this route rather than ask his colleagues on the Village Board to support the ballot initiative because he wanted to gauge interest in the proposal from those would ultimately decide its fate.“I went to the residents because I wanted to get the actual decision makers on whether this should even be on the ballot,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of support so far.”Bourbonnai