November 20, 2012
Efforts Wiping Graffiti Off Of City's Landscape
What a difference 4,000 hours can make in a year. The City's Graffiti Abatement maintenance workers removed or covered 840,790 square feet of graffiti city-wide from July1, 2010 through June 30, 2011. The program's staff consists of one supervisor, one hourly graffiti program coordinator, and four hourly graffiti abatement maintenance workers.
The purpose of the program is to provide prompt abatement of graffiti located on city/government property from public view on streets, signs, city buildings, and block walls. Its goal is to remove the graffiti in less than 48 hours from the date the information is received by staff. Sixteen volunteers remove about 7,500 square fee of graffiti a year in the City, due in part to the continual communication and cooperation with residential and commercial property owners.
In addition, a Downtown Visalians employee removes graffiti in that area, and Visalia Unified School District removes graffiti on school property daily. Graffiti workers also work with the Traffic Engineering Division by removing graffiti from traffic signs and assist the Solid Waste Division by covering up graffiti on enclosures and refuse containers.
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