A new fund will have $110,000 to help Kansas City neighborhoods remove graffiti, and in some cases replace it with artistic murals, city officials announced Tuesday.
“This is important for our businesses and neighborhoods,” Councilman Scott Wagner said in announcing the graffiti abatement program.
The city has budgeted $100,000 in community development block grant funds to provide neighborhood groups with training and chemicals, power washers and other equipment to remove the graffiti and discourage future vandals.
Another $10,000 is coming from Kansas City’s Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC) to identify and support artists who can paint murals over unsightly graffiti. The city’s public arts administrator and the Municipal Arts Commission will collaborate on that effort, Wagner said.
The graffiti initiative is one of the first efforts of the Gateway Crimes Task Force, which considers graffiti, prostitution and other illegal activities to be “gateways” to more violent crimes.
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