Federal election candidates are continuing to flaunt city guidelines regarding the placement of their signs.
In at least one spot considered off-limits, the median at Victoria Streetand 20th Avenue, signs for Trent Derrick, the NDP candidate in Prince George-Cariboo, rim the location. It also holds a few for Tracy Calogheros, the Liberal candidate in the riding.
Reached this week, Derrick said he has not been contacted by the city.
At the start of the campaign, Conservative candidate Todd Doherty removed signs placed in spots that violate the guidelines in response to a story by The Citizen.
Parks and solid waste services manager Sean LeBrun said he's put in just one request so far to have signs removed.
That occurred about two weeks ago when candidates had erected large signs with the wooden stakes at the city's welcome sign at the junction of Highways 16 and 97 and candidates complied.
Signs - both large and small - are not supposed to be put up in city boulevards and medians where there are irrigation systems because of concerns they will get in the way of the sprinkler heads and pierce the waterlines.
"A lot of the irrigation lines, although they're 12 to 18 inches under the ground we've had problems with irrigation lines being damaged and compromised," LeBrun said.
LeBrun said crews who are mowing medians where signs are allowed refrain from moving them and simply try to work around them.
"We have a process for having them removed from irrigated boulevards but otherwise we just deal with it," LeBrun said.
