City begins free service to paint over graffiti

[CMF Newsman]

Chattanooga business and home owners say graffiti is taking over and glorifying gangs throughout the city. Now city leaders have stepped in with a new program to paint over the graffiti for free.

The Community Graffiti Initiative kicked off just a few days ago with volunteers and city workers taking on the taggers with a little elbow grease and a lot of paint. Now just three days later, the graffiti is already back. But, city leaders say that's ok and that it's all part of the plan.

Charles Toney owns the barber shop Nappy Cuts in the Amnicola area.

"This gang graffiti that's going up here in these neighborhoods just went up Thursday and last Sunday," Nappy Cuts owner Charles Toney said.

www.wrcbtv.com/story/17653882/city-begins-free-service-to-paint-over-graffiti

[Tsavodiner]

I volunteer to load those 20-guage shotgun shells with rock salt

[professorx]

Apr 23, 2012 7:33:54 GMT -5 CMF Newsman said:

Chattanooga business and home owners say graffiti is taking over and glorifying gangs throughout the city. Now city leaders have stepped in with a new program to paint over the graffiti for free.

The Community Graffiti Initiative kicked off just a few days ago with volunteers and city workers taking on the taggers with a little elbow grease and a lot of paint. Now just three days later, the graffiti is already back. But, city leaders say that's ok and that it's all part of the plan.

Charles Toney owns the barber shop Nappy Cuts in the Amnicola area.

"This gang graffiti that's going up here in these neighborhoods just went up Thursday and last Sunday," Nappy Cuts owner Charles Toney said.

www.wrcbtv.com/story/17653882/city-begins-free-service-to-paint-over-graffiti

How much graffitti would I have to paint on my own house to to be entitle to the free paint job?