About six months ago, the city of Marseilles adopted a new sign ordinance that hadn’t been changed in forty years. But Resident Brad Miller says residents aren’t following the rules for putting political signs in their yards. They are allowed to have up to ten eight and a half square foot signs in their yards, but one area on U.S 6 has twelve to fifteen. And he says there are bigger signs placed at the Laborer Local 393 office which have to been approved by the city’s planning commission. He says the commission has been working on changing the ordinances for the last two years.
Although it’s too late for this election, Commissioner Bobby Kaminski says the city could be more prepared for the next one in April.
Mayor Jim Hollenbeck and Commissioner Nathan Schaefer also agreed that more should be done to get the information about the ordinance to residents. Commissioner Gary Lewey says that it needs to be carefully because he doesn’t want the city to be sued over claims that they violated peoples First Amendment rights.