What the city’s doing about our graffiti problem

After some alarming graffiti incidents over the weekend, Sault Ste. Marie city council decided to create a graffiti subcommittee of its cultural vitality committee to tackle the problem. As SooToday‘s Kenneth Armstrong has reported, anti-Indigenous graffiti was spray-painted onto Algoma Steel property on Saturday. Also on Saturday, the words ‘paint it black’ were painted by someone in similar black lettering on the Pride crosswalk at Spring and Bay streets. That was the second time in three months that the colourful crosswalk has been marred by graffiti. Here are the duties assigned to the new graffiti subcommittee: to receive written communications from and liaise with interested parties regarding graffiti provide information to students in Grades 7 to 9 on the opportunities available within the community as it pertains to art work together with both school boards to provide hands-on experience for public art mentorship opportunities liaise with city staff in response to inquiries from the community relating to art liaise with community partners as it pertains to graffiti removal and or enforcement establish partnerships to alleviate barriers to participation in arts and culture opportunities