The City will be responsible for inspecting the public sidewalks on a five (5) year cycle within the city. These inspections shall be made to determine if any of the public sidewalks within a particular zone of the city are defective as defined. The City will be divided into five zones as designated in (Appendix “A”). When a sidewalk defect is found to exist outside of the annual inspection zone, the City will initiate appropriate action as directed by this policy to have the sidewalk reconstructed. The annual inspections will occur on the following timeline:
1. August – designated zone sidewalk inspections completed
2. August 31
- Notifications mailed to property owners
3. October – April – property owner requests bids for repairs and selects contractor
4. May 1 – seventy-five day initiated from May 1.
5. July 15 – deadline for property owners to complete sidewalk repair.
6. July - October – three months for city to coordinate and schedule uncompleted repairs
(Code of Iowa, Sec. 364.12[2c])