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City Council Gets Look At New Anti-Graffiti Ordinance
The City of Galesburg apparently still has a lot of work to do in order to get a proposed new anti-graffiti ordinance palatable to aldermen.

After rejecting the last ordinance so that a new one could be drawn up, aldermen got their first look at it Monday night. The new one contains, among other things, penalties for businesses who don't clean up acts of graffiti sprayed on them.

That doesn't sit well with Third Ward Alderman Russell Fleming.

"This turns the victim into the criminal, it really does," Fleming says. "If your property is victimized and you don't take care of it within 10 days then you are subject to a $250 dollar fine, and to me that's just not proper."

Other aldermen, however, argued that the city can't expect new residents to come here when there's all kinds of new or ignored graffiti, while others suggested that there's not enough time in the ordinance for buisnesses to meet with their insurance agents to file and process a claim if they've been hit with graffiti.
09 21 11 by Newsroom
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