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Sunday, January 24 2010 - 04:56 AM
ENHANCED GRAFFITI REMOVAL FOR ANTELOPE VALLEY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Tony Bell, Communications Deputy
Office: (213) 974-5555
Cell: (213) 215-5176
tbell@bos.lacounty.gov
ENHANCED GRAFFITI REMOVAL FOR ANTELOPE VALLEY
January 19, 2010—To provide graffiti removal services in the zero-tolerance areas of Littlerock, Sun Village, Pearblossom, Long View, Del Sur, Quartz Hill, and Lake Los Angeles, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich announced the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a one-year $575,000 contract with Superior Property Services, Inc.
To report graffiti, the public is encouraged to contact the County’s graffiti removal hotline at (800) 675-HELP available 24 hours a day, seven days a week or the website: http://ladpw.org/itd/dispatch/publicgraffiti/. Graffiti is removed within 48 hours of notification, Monday through Friday in county rights-of-way, flood control channels, and private property in designated zero tolerance zones.
Superior Property Services, Inc.
9129 Perkins Street
Pico Rivera, CA 90660-4512
(562) 949-4107
OK, living in Quartz Hill this affects me and I have to say I’m a bit perplexed by the size of the contract and the fact that it was awarded to a business over 90 miles away from the community.
My initial investigating leads me to believe that this company has had this contract for the last 4 years or more. Yet, even with a 48 hour response time it takes them on average 3 months to address anything in Lake LA and equally as long for anything north of it. I have to say the water tanks on 240th East have been tagged with “Pacas 13” for at least a year now.
I’m a little disappointed that no company located within the Antelope Valley could have been awarded this contract. Had I known this was available I would have started a business and bid on the contract. It’s about time a company uses a system that’s better than patch work painting over tagging in colors that even a color blind dog could see don’t match.
I’m happy that there is someone contracted to do the work, but not so happy that it’s not supporting local business or capable of providing a level of support that reflects the size of the contract.
marino says...
$575,000?! I’m in the wrong business. They’ve gotta pay for all that fuel to get here from Pico Rivera.
What a waste.
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PKShaw says...
How about making the taggers who are caught do the removal?
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scdyne says...
PKShaw, ABSOLUTELY! I was under the impression that it was already the SOP for judges to issue community service to convicted Taggers.
Something that really frustrates me is that politicians and private interest groups will spend this kind of money on smear campaigns, but at the same time turn away an entrepreneur looking for funding for a local business like this. A business that would hire a dozen or so (currently unemployed) people who live in the community and want to contribute to society.
Instead they throw this money down the drain in an attempt to sway the community into thinking one person is better than another because they go to the right church or have the better friends network.
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roxi says...
scdyne says:
Instead they throw this money down the drain in an attempt to sway the community into thinking one person is better than another because they go to the right church or have the better friends network.
Downtown and Private is the the answer. Taxpayer $$’s are fluid, required and punishable via law. Easy $$ – and guaranteed!
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roxi says...
Yes, it is up to the judges to issue community service to the perps – like cleaning up the graffiti, trash etc – and fighting fires. Malibu doesn’t want perps in their neighborhoods fighting their fires becuz they say: that wasn’t the perps ‘original focus’ to fight fires – but to rob and pillage the riche.
Yes, that was their original focus – but their in ‘rehab’.?!
So, our great reps in LA, Antonovich per se- of great knowledge and power hires a company from Pico (ha ha) to drive up here and clean up the graffiti. That’s like giving gangsters a coupon for Krylon!
I think Antonovich is over paid…. or he’s had a lapse of conscience and thinks he’s governing Iraq.
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ritcsilv says...
PK I am ABSOLUTELY in agreement with you on that. When I caught kids writing on the school buses I made them wash it off during their lunch time. This worked out until some parents complained about it.
There is one company in the Palmdale area that does the painting over that the city is contracted with. I don’t know why the county didn’t go with them.
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CASimons says...
I so agree with you!
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