In Mancos ARTICLE 2 - Mayor and Board of Trustees in the Mancos Municipal Code establishes elected official authority, qualifications, terms and positions among other matters related to the governing body.   The Town of Mancos is run by a Mayor and a board of six trustees. These elected officials serve a term of four years.

The Board of Trustees meet on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at Mancos Town Hall.  Board workshops are held on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at Mancos Town Hall.

At the general election on November 8, 1994, Colorado voters approved an amendment to the Colorado Constitution establishing term limits for municipal elected officials. Referred to as Amendment 17, the citizen-initiated constitutional amendment placed statewide term limits on every local elected official in Colorado. The provisions of Amendment 17 relating to local officials are codified in Section 11 of Article XVIII of the Constitution.

Excerpt from Article XVIII of the Colorado Constitution

Section 11. Elected government officials - limitation on terms. (1) In order to broaden the opportunities for public service and to assure that elected officials of governments are responsive to the citizens of those governments, no nonjudicial elected official of any county, city and county, city, town, school district, service authority, or any other political subdivision of the State of Colorado, no member of the state board of education, and no elected member of the governing board of a state institution of higher education shall serve more than two consecutive terms in office, except that with respect to terms of office which are two years or shorter in duration, no such elected official shall serve more than three consecutive terms in office. This limitation on the number of terms shall apply to terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1995. For purposes of this Section 11, terms are considered consecutive unless they are at least four years apart.

(2) The voters of any such political subdivision may lengthen, shorten or eliminate the limitations on terms of office imposed by this Section 11. The voters of the state may lengthen, shorten, or eliminate the limitations on terms of office for the state board of education or the governing board of a state institution of higher education imposed by this Section 11.

(3) The provisions of this Section 11 shall apply to every home rule county, home rule city and county, home rule city and home rule town, notwithstanding any provision of Article XX, or Sections 16 and 17 of Article XIV, of the Colorado Constitution.