Belleville has formed a Task Force to fight graffiti.
Councillor Egerton Boyce, who heads up the team, says research has shown a concentrated system of cleanup can work. He says if its cleaned up in 48 or 72 hours it may happen once or twice but not more. Boyce says there is an instance in which the city used that system a couple of years ago and the specific area “has not been re-hit.” Meanwhile Councillor Jack Miller suggested the task force check out a document that the Downtown Improvement Area discovered that tells people “how to deface and get away with it.”
