(a) The Director of Public Service may create a program for the City to repair sidewalks on residential property in the right-of-way that are designated by the Department of Public Service as being in an unsafe or dangerous condition, when the City receives voluntary payment of fifty percent (50%) of the estimated shared costs of repair from the owner of the property on which the sidewalk is located. Shared costs shall include, but not be limited to, any cost the City or its contractor incurs, such as the cost of paving or repairing, adjustment of castings, reseeding lawns, or grinding tree roots, except that shared costs shall not include costs incurred in removing a full tree.
(b) The Director shall run the sidewalk repair program in any year that funds are appropriated for the program.
(c) The program shall be available to any property owner whose residential sidewalks are determined by the Director of Public Service to be in an unsafe or dangerous condition, on a first-come, first- served basis, to the extent funds are available.
(d) The Director shall not authorize a contractor to perform sidewalk repairs on a property until the owner has paid his or her fifty percent (50%) share based on the Director’s written estimate.
(e) After the repair is completed, the Commissioner of Licenses and Assessments shall bill the owner of the property for his or her fifty percent (50%) portion of actual costs that exceed the Director’s estimate. The Commissioner of Licenses and Assessments shall issue a refund to the owner of the property for his or her fifty percent (50%) portion of actual costs that are below the Director’s estimate. Any refunds must be paid on or before March 31 of the year following completion of the work.
(f) That the Director of Public Service is authorized to promulgate rules for the program. The rules shall take effect upon publication in the City Record.
(Ord. No. 277-05. Passed 3-28-05, eff. 3-30-05)