with the department of public works. this report is for properties inspect and had notified and repairs made and invoiced by the city under the sidewalk inspection and repair program from april 2013 through april 2014. during that period the department inspected and repaired sidewalks and curbs along city blocks and portionses of the marina, lower pacific heights, western addition, cal hollow, potrero hill, lake street district, bernal heights, golden gate heights, outer sunset, hayes valley, telegraph hill, lone mountain and claire don heights issuing 3,97 2 notices to repair and [speaker not understood] which goes to city agencies and, and private utility companies at a cost of 1,5 56,754 dollars for notices to repairs ~, $1,6 49,387 for [speaker not understood] for a total of $3,206,141. [speaker not understood] invoices were sent out to property oresctionv of which 1,528 property owners paid allowing the city to recover ~ $1,290,360. the balance of the property owners ele
sir, if you d like to take some time to translate, you re welcome to do that. yes. my name is alex chan. i live with martha menendez at [speaker not understood] excelsior district. we under the program and what was going on. basically i think our issue that the deal or the negotiation with dpw is not what we agreed to. so, i think we ll try to resolve that with the dpw staff members. but we have the documents to kind of justify our argument here. thank you. okay, thank you very much. and if you would like us to get a translator, we re happy to do that as well. thank you. next speaker. good afternoon, my name is jackie olson and i reside in excelsior district. 700 avalon, and we had received a notice last year that sidewalk repairs were required, which we had completed and paid the contractor to do. now we received a notice saying that there s a public hearing that we re going to do the work. the inspector told us they would be back to inspect the work we had completed
[speaker not understood] any damage from the tree. we did additional research and actually found out that the city of san francisco is not allowing [speaker not understood] these kind of trees due to all the damage caused by its invasive root system. we were not overly surprised when the invasive root system of the tree caused damage to the city sidewalk. we were, however, surprised when we received a notice from the city that we would have to pay for the damage that the tree the city had put in, had agreed to maintain and the city now says should never be put in again due to its invasive root system. imagine if the city had hired someone who had agreed to maintain something it sold to san francisco, and that person then said, we re not doing it any more. i doubt the city would [speaker not understood] on that. or someone causes damage to the city by driving their car through a city door and demanded the city fix it, again, i doubt the city would go for that. [speaker not und