New incarnations emerged Wednesday of a pair of long-standing proposals to impose term limits on Miami-Dade commissioners and give them a pay hike.

A Miami-Dade commissioner put forth a county charter amendment that would raise commissioners’ salaries to $75,000 a year from $6,000.

Separately, the head of a group planning a petition-gathering effort to set two, four-year commission terms said she plans to make those limits partially retroactive.

Commissioner Barbara Jordan filed her salary-hike resolution Tuesday, the first step toward bringing it to a commission vote to place the amendment on the November ballot.

“Everyone should be able to run for office, not just people who are retired, like myself, or who are independently rich,” she said. “You have up-and-coming young professionals who want to get into the political arena, and they can’t afford to do that on $6,000.”

Regarding term limits, Vanessa Brito, chairwoman of Miami Voice, told The Miami Herald Wednesday that she plans to re-submit her prior charter amendment language to make one of the two four-year terms apply to sitting commissioners. That would mean incumbents who have been in office for at least four years could run for only one more, four-year term.

The office of the Miami-Dade clerk of the courts, Harvey Ruvin, is already reviewing Brito’s original proposal from earlier this month, which would have limited commissioners to two, four-year terms without taking into account their previous years in office. Brito said she plans to submit the amended language next week, before Ruvin’s office accepts or rejects the original plan.

Brito said she changed her mind about making the term limits retroactive after Commissioners Lynda Bell and Rebeca Sosa announced — on the same day Brito filed her original language — their intention to propose the same charter reform from the dais. Brito’s citizen-initiated effort would require collecting thousands of petition signatures.

“It just seems silly that we would go after the same effort after so long waiting for this to be on the ballot by itself,” Brito said.

Last month, voters rejected an amendment put forth by the commission that would have raised commissioners’ salaries to $92,097 a year, based on a state population formula, in exchange for a ban on outside employment and term limits. The amendment failed 54 percent to 46 percent.

It was the 13th time in five decades that a wary electorate has said no to a proposed salary hike. Miami Voice and Commissioners Sosa and Bell then embarked on parallel efforts to get term limits on the ballot, not tied to employment restrictions or higher salaries.

Earlier this month, Brito said she feared any retroactive term limits, as some charter-reform advocates such as Miami auto billionaire Norman Braman were calling for, could be subject to legal challenges. On Wednesday, she said lawyers have advised her that making only one of the terms retroactive would likely stand up in court.

Under her new plan, nine of the 13 county commissioners — who have been in office for at least four years — could run for re-election one last time. The other four commissioners were elected less than four years ago and would likely be allowed to seek two more terms.

Brito, whose group spearheaded last year’s successful recall of Commissioner Natacha Seijas, said she is skeptical that commissioners will favor placing term limits on the ballot. But if they do, Brito added, her group would likely drop its separate effort to impose retroactive term limits, since having both on the same November ballot could be confusing.

“That would not be good for voters,” she said.

Commissioner Jordan, who has proposed the $75,000-a-year salary twice before, told The Herald on Wednesday that a higher salary would lure more people to run for commission seats.

Her proposal would adjust the $75,000 salary every year based on inflation, topping any increase at 3 percent.

Though commissioners have not gone for Jordan’s $75,000 proposal in the past, she said that salary may be more palatable to voters than the higher $92,097 set by state formula.

“When you look at that number, you see the number $100,000,” Jordan said. “Most people would probably look at that as being excessive.”

Before the full commission decides whether to put the questions on the ballot — Chairman Joe Martinez has called for a special meeting March 8, though it has not yet been set — the county began a series of public meetings Wednesday night to hear from residents about the two charter amendments proposed by commissioners: Bell’s and Sosa’s on term limits and Jordan’s on salaries. The meetings will continue through early next week across the county.

Last year, commissioners adopted a measure requiring the county to hold six public meetings on any proposal to amend Miami-Dade’s Home Rule Charter.