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It's a mistake that the city's graffiti team is shutting down for the winter. My sense from walking around the city is that the city's vandals are not taking the winter off. While removal gets harder in the winter, a quick Google search reveals there to be effective winter removal methods.
Also, please do NOT mark this issue as closed until the issue is actually resolved. The Seven Days article noted your team's top 10 success rate with Seeclickfix but that rating is falsely earned if you are marking Graffiti issues (or any other issue) as closed before actual removal.
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Dalton (Registered User)
Acknowledged Bill Ward Director of Permitting and Inspections (Verified Official)
Bill Ward Director of Permitting and Inspections (Verified Official)
Bill Ward Director of Permitting and Inspections (Verified Official)
The Code Enforcement office is the sole City Department using See-Click-Fix in Burlington. As the recent news reports indicated, we are testing the system by asking citizens to report Code Enforcement related complaints. Some other communities have adopted See-Click-Fix for all departments city wide.
Burlington Code Enforcement has a priority responsibility for Minimum Housing and Zoning enforcement. For the benefit of citizens to make reports simple, we have partnered with the one employee at the Community Justice Center who takes the lead on graffiti removal. We refer graffiti complaints to her.
We respect everyone’s right to report any type of complaint but there are some complaints that do not fall with our span of control. If you do not wish to have us redirect your graffiti complaint, you can choose not to report it on the See-Click-Fix site and report it directly on the Burlington Police Department web site which has an on-line reporting tool.
http://www.bpdvt.org/LeadinHtml_VtBurlingtonPd/start-report.html
Citizens with specific concerns can contact me directly at 865-7510.
Thank you for understanding.
William Ward
Director of Code Enforcement
Closed Bill Ward Director of Permitting and Inspections (Verified Official)
Burlington’s Graffiti removal coordinator uses only chemicals that are safe to citizens, staff, and our environment. The products used do not work in the winter weather.
The damaged sign has been placed on a work order for cleaning or replacement. The Department of Public works has been notified of the damage to their sign. The Code Enforcement aspect of this complaint is closed.
Thank you for understanding.
William Ward
Director of Code Enforcement