GRAFFITI cleanup will get a boost in Garden Grove (File photo).

By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune

   More muscle will be added to the city’s efforts to combat graffiti as a result of the Garden Grove City Council’s actions on Tuesday night.

  The council voted 7-0 in favor of an amendment with Graffiti Protective Coatings, Inc., to upgrade the contract to provide two manned trucks to paint over graffiti to seven days a week, at a cost of $225,000.

  The city will get two operating graffiti removal trucks seven days a week for not just public property but also private property facing public streets. Typically the program has had two such trucks, one on duty six days a week and one three days a week, focusing on the public right-of-way.

  The entire annual program costs $482,427.

  This comes after a pilot program earlier this year showed that 98 percent of all reported graffiti was cleaned within 24 hours.

  Also on Tuesday night, the council approved the second reading and adoption of an ordinance which will clear the way for eight pool tables to be installed at The Wharf restaurant on Main Street.