Driving through the neighborhoods of Syracuse, you might not be able to tell that an election was over. Many campaign signs endorsing candidates for mayor, school board, and common council are still in place. But eventually the signs do have to come down.
City Clerk John Copanas said no specific, strictly enforced law exists concerning the taking down of campaign signs. But he said the general time frame to get rid of signs is a week or two. Signs in the public right of way (from the sidewalk to the street) will be disposed of by garbage men. Copanas said a family can keep a sign on their lawn if they want to: "it's private property, and we can't do anything about that."
When reached by phone, the Miner campaign said they plan to collect the signs, but they believe most people will want to keep these signs as a commemorative memento, due to the historic nature of the election.
In comparison, Steve Kimatian's campaign manager Fran Coudriet said campaign volunteers had began taking down signs during the day after the election. Coudriet said "we plan to have all signs down by the weekend." He also said the campaign volunteers planned to recycle the signs, which are made of recyclable materials. A final option for the signs, according to Coudriet, was to give them to some non-profit groups. These groups will put stickers over the signs in order to re-use them for other candidates.
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