The state Public Disclosure Commission has dismissed a complaint from Buckley mayoral candidate Richard O’Neill over a campaign banner that flew this year at the Buckley Log Show, finding the city did not violate the law in the incident.

That banner advertised O’Neill’s opponent Beau Burkett. City officials told both the PDC and the Courier-Herald that they asked the show organizers to take the banner down as soon as they found out about it.

“Based on the fact the city officials did not authorize the banner and worked to remove it as soon as alerted to its presence,” the PDC closed the case with no enforcement taken, according to the committee’s findings.

Since the case is closed, the PDC won’t be researching the matter any further or taking any more action.

The PDC investigation focused solely on the city, because the section of state law in question in the investigation, RCW 42.17A.555, “prohibits … public employees from using or authorizing the use of any facilities of a public office or agency … to assist a candidate’s election campaign.”

Under that section of law, “it is only a public employee or agency that would be part of our investigation,” PDC Deputy Director Kim Bradford said.