Citywide Graffiti Clean-Up Program Saved
Sam Adams
Threatened with even deeper proposed cuts, Mayor Tom Potter and I successfully lobbied the City 
Council to keep $80,000 in one-time General Fund resources in the Fiscal Year 2005-05 to fund a citywide graffiti abatement program.
Related Documents
- Adopted Budget, City of Portland, Oregon, Fiscal Year 2005-06, Volume One, Bureau Budgets, Programs and Services, Page 70
Media Coverage
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- Portland Celebrates National Night Out
- Download spray_cachet.pdf
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Milestones
- June 23, 2005 - After debate, the City Council approves Adopted Budget, City of Portland, Oregon, Fiscal Year 2005-06, Volume One, Bureau Budgets, Programs and Services
- August 11, 2005 - Mayor Tom Potter and me met with representatives of the Portland Building Owners and Managers to discuss private-sector funding match.
Posted by Sam Adams on December 29, 2005
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Proposal:
City allow citizens to paint over graffiti using surplus paint.
Metro sells/recycles/provides surplus paint. If the exterior quality paint was available to Citizens of Portland then we could paint over graffiti.
You would have to register when you picked up the paint and complete the same graffiti report that we now use to communicate to the city graffiti abatement. City would spotcheck usage and by doing this citizens could avoid waiting for the city to paint. Abuse would preclude future painting. Serious abuse would be classified as graffiti and dealt with legally (citation).
One-time set of written guidelines for painting given with each paint ration.
Bring your own brush or roller.
One color per citizen.
Posted by: Bryan H. Ackler | May 12, 2006 3:56:28 PM