4th Annual Neighborhood-Business Area Collaborative Graffiti Clean Ups

Is graffiti a problem in your neighborhood? If so, you need to act on this opportunity STAT...

The City of Portland Graffiti Abatement program will sponsor eight Saturday morning graffiti cleanups between March and October 2009. Interested neighborhoods/business associations should contact Graffiti Abatement Coordinator as soon as possible to be considered as a cleanup site.

Beginning in March, the cleanups will be held one Saturday each month from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will be a combined effort by City-contracted graffiti removal crews, and a minimum of 10 volunteers from the community. Be a part of the solution!

Prior to the cleanup date, residents/businesses will be asked to survey their area and compile a list of sites that have been vandalized by graffiti and then to submit the list to Graffiti Abatement Coordinator at least a week ahead of the event.

The contractor-crews will focus on paint-out or power-wash removals from private properties (provided we have signed owner-permission prior to the event). Volunteers will remove graffiti from properties "in the right-of-way", including utility poles, dumpsters, newspaper boxes, and other sites that are not routinely cleaned by agencies or owners. Previous years collaborative events have resulted in more than 1000 sites cleaned in a "season".

Supplies will be provided by the Graffiti Abatement Program.

Volunteers must sign a volunteer agreement and application form, available at the Graffiti Program webpage.

Tentative dates for the 8 cleanups are:

MARCH 14 - Creston-Kenilworth

APRIL 11

MAY 9

JUNE 13

JULY11

AUGUST 8

SEPTEMBER 12

OCTOBER 17

At this time, one date is filled for 2009 Collaborative Cleanups. You may obtain graffiti volunteer forms and other information by emailing or calling: Marcia Dennis online at mdennis@ci.portland.or.us or by phone at 503-823-5860.