DALLAS - Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, has made good on a promise to write the City of Dallas a check for $100,000 to help the city clean up graffiti.
The city voted to accept the donation on Wednesday.
Fourteen times a day, the City of Dallas gets a request to clean-up graffiti - that's the average at least.
From alleys to freeways, taxpayers shell out hundreds of thousands to clean-up a very visible crime. Last year, Dallas spent $750,000 on it.
But with a shrinking budget, finding money to paint over the problem has been a challenge.
The mayor plans to launch a new initiative with every dime of Cuban's cash, not only to buy supplies to clean-up what taggers left behind but also to invest in education and public outreach.
Part of the initiative is also aimed at tackling graffiti in high traffic areas to improve first impressions for Super Bowl visitors, due to arrive some seven weeks from now.
The city also named Dallas attorney John Barr as the new "graffiti czar" on Wednesday.
