(a) The Manager is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to repair or replace, or cause to be repaired or replaced, those portions of public sidewalks within the Village which, in his opinion, are sufficiently damaged or shifted to impede pedestrian passage and to commit the Village to the payment of not more than fifty percent of the costs of such repair or replacement as set forth in this chapter, unless, in the opinion of the Manager, the public sidewalk damage was caused by a Village "street tree", located between the sidewalk and the curb and directly adjacent to the damaged public sidewalk. In this case, the Village will be responsible for 100% of the sidewalk repair cost.
(b) Brick sidewalks that are not maintained can become a hazard. Accordingly, as an incentive to upgrade the Village's public sidewalks, the Village Manager may authorize the Village share of the sidewalk replacement to be increased to 75% of the project cost where existing public brick sidewalks are replaced w/ Portland concrete, per Village construction standards. (Ord. 21-2013. Passed 11-20-13.)