Say Goodbye To Occupy Graffiti

A five minute tagging job in Acacia Park turned into 10-15 minutes of cleanup, Tuesday morning. A Colorado Springs Parks and Rec graffiti remover made quick work of the unwanted words.

Kurt Schroeder with Parks and Rec told me it costs about 15-20 dollars for one of his crew to do this job. Typically if you broke it down to an hourly basis, with materials and labor it’s 50-60 dollars an hour.

Occupy Colorado Springs organizer, Kristie Wheeler told me Monday when the graffiti first surfaced, ” we don’t agree with tagging, but they are acting as individuals, we honestly don’t know who did that.”

This graffiti removal just reinforces the growing and costly problem that’s affecting Colorado Springs. Tagging as it’s called is an expensive cleanup over a year’s time for the city. Schroeder says that it costs you, the taxpayer 100 thousand dollars each year to get rid of the graffiti. He says his staff works up to 16 hours a day to keep the city in its pristine and graffiti-less condition.