Auburn City Councilwoman Yolanda Trout-Manuel is sick to death of seeing all the graffiti, particularly as it manifests its ugly presence under the M Street bridge.

So sick, as Trout-Manuel suggested to her council peers Monday, the city should consider installing a few cameras under the bridge, to catch the bad guys in mid spray and encourage them to sheath their cans.

City Engineer Ingrid Gaub noted that Burlington Northern owns that bridge, but the city dispatches employees to the bridge from time to time to cover up the taggers’ misdeeds.

“A portion of that bridge is our responsibility for maintenance, so we do go out and do some maintenance for graffiti out there,” Gaub said.

As far putting up cameras, Gaub added, that’s a simple question of how to get power to the proposed cameras and finding a place to install them.

Trout-Manuel noted that in Seattle, the powers-that-be have taken walls that were the source of constant tagger attention and asked artists to come out and paint beautiful scenery on them.

“So, instead of us seeing some big, old, nasty graffiti, and our staff constantly going out there painting, I thought either of cameras to keep people from doing that or doing something else,” Trout Manuel said.

Councilman Claude DaCorsi suggested the council take up the issue, which it hasn’t done in several years.

“Maybe as a refresher, because we are seeing again some areas of the city with increased graffiti,” DaCorsi said.