[JQUERY][BOOTSTRAP] jquery UI autocomplete

CI 3.1.0
PHP  5.6.24 (cli)

Hi, I'm using jquery's autocomplete, but getting a request showing up as:

http://<domain>.com/events/getorganizers?term=theterm

That is pretty close, but in order for the param to get to the 'getorganizers' method, I'm thinking it should be:
http://<domain>.com/events/getorganizers&term=theterm

or rather better:
http://<domain>.com/events/getorganizers/theterm

thoughts?

Thanks,
Donovan