The City of Kansas City and Missouri Department of Transportation recently began a campaign to eliminate graffiti from downtown Kansas City. Kansas City and MoDOT officials are asking the public for help to cleaning up. They're encouraging anyone to contact Kansas City police at 816-234-5111 when they see anyone defacing property, whether it's owned by the state of city. “We are working to clean up our great city not only for all our civic pride, but in anticipation of several major downtown events coming soon,” said MoDOT KC District Engineer Chris Redline. “We want to clean it and keep it that way, but we need the public’s help.”Redline said costs of cleaning up the graffiti can "lead into the thousands." MoDOT crews recently focused on removing graffiti in the area of Interstate 35 and Southwest Boulevard. Redline said that will be the first of "many efforts" to clean-up and try to prevent graffiti.