Keep Clark County Beautiful
About KCCB
Our Mission to engage Clark County residents to take pride, ownership, and responsibility for enhancing their community’s environment.
What we do We all recognize that a cleaner community appears to be safer, healthier, more prosperous, and more welcoming. Not unlike many other communities, and in spite of all our best efforts, Clark County has wrestled for years with the challenges of litter, graffiti, and general mismanagement of trash.
With the intent of bringing these issues into focus and motivating the wider community to join in making improvements, a collaborative effort to initiate a local Keep America Beautiful (KAB) program has resulted in the organization of Keep Clark County Beautiful, or KCCB. This national affiliation helps to highlight the value of community beautification and putting waste in its proper place and offers proven models and tools that enhance our ability to make a difference here in Clark County. Coordinated by the Clark County Waste Management District, we are one of more than one thousand communities participating in the KAB network.
A little more about Keep America Beautiful
How does Keep America Beautiful work?
KAB was established in 1953 and is the nation’s largest volunteer based community action and education organization. KAB strives to change behaviors and improve communities by focusing on:
- Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the cause, preventing it, organizing clean-ups, and properly handling discarded wastes in our community.
- Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of mismanaged solid waste in our communities through integrated programs including source reduction, reuse, recycling, and education.
- Beautification: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautify our environment including community gardens, vacant lot restoration, highway beautification, urban forests, native and wildflower plantings, as well as graffiti prevention and abatement.
The KAB guiding principals
- Education: the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.
- Individual Responsibility: Inspiring individuals to become more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.
- Public-Private Partnerships: broad-based community alliances are essential to achieving sustainable community improvement.
- Volunteer Action: Engaging volunteers extends the reach of educational efforts and multiplies the impact of our actions.
Who We Are
KCCB Board Members
- Charles Patterson
- Chris Moore
- Chris Schutte
- Commissioner David Hartley
- Sherriff Gene Kelly
- Homer Smith
- Jim Campbell
- Judge Joseph Monnin
- Commissioner Karen Duncan
- Kathy Estep
- Mike Morris
- Ron Melchi
- Stacia Smith
- Ted VanderRoest
- Tina Koumoutsos
KCCB Supporters:
- Dale Henry
- Dave Waugh
- Jane Balchan
- Joe Tedeschi
- John Balzer
- John Burr
- Josh Harmon
- Lisa Holmes
- Marianne Nave
- Matthew McNelly
- Paul Parloto
Projects & Services
KCCB supports the Great American Clean-up, a national volunteer litter collection drive held from March until May, around Earth Day. Contact the Waste Management District at 521.2020 or visit www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=gaclanding for more information.
We also offer assistance to groups and individuals interested in the Adopt-a-Road and Adopt-a-Spot programs, providing clean-up supplies such as trash bags, gloves, litter grabbers, safety equipment, and more.
Graffiti removal is a constant hassle in Clark County. Now, KCCB and partners are equipped with a graffiti removal unit—able to blast away or cover large areas of graffiti quickly and easily.