Last night at the City Council meeting, newly-elected Saratoga Springs Democratic Chairman Charles Brown said the political signs on Spa City streets have been absconded with.

Brown said it seems to have been clean-up by the city of all signs, not just Democratic. He said obviously the signs cost money and if "the rules are going to change" that he would have liked to be informed before hand, since for at least ten years they have been left alone.

Public Safety Commissioner Christian Mathiesen asked what streets had been cleared of political signs. "All of the ones I checked today," he said.

Pat Kane, organizer for Saratoga Citizen, said last week he found someone making off with Saratoga Citizen's signs. Last night, he too said they were all gone from public streets.

"I went to the transfer station to see if I could recover some of them but was told they were all thrown away," he told the City Council.

I'll ask Public Works Commissoiner Anthony "Skip" Scirocco if he knows anything about it today, since it would likely be his department to do the clearing if, indeed, it was the city's doing.