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Committee forwards sidewalk inspection, repair ordinances after DPW presentation
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee heard Department of Public Works testimony on a new proactive sidewalk inspection and repair program and forwarded two ordinances (an appropriation and a Public Works Code amendment) to the full Board for consideration on Jan. 13, 2007 without recommendation.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Wednesday heard a presentation from the Department of Public Works on two ordinances designed to launch a proactive citywide sidewalk inspection and repair program and then forwarded both items to the Board of Supervisors for the January 13, 2007 meeting without recommendation.
DPW staff described an ordinance that would declare sidewalk defects a public nuisance under state code, which would allow owners to pay for repairs through assessments on their property tax bills. The clerk read the ordinance text as an appropriation of $1,277,584 for the sidewalk inspection and repair program (item 1); DPW staff characterized the seed appropriation they expect to use as roughly $1.27 million and said that additional program costs this year will be funded through existing general-fund capital monies, including about $395,000 for sidewalk repair and a portion of a citywide accessibility project.
Dan McKenna of the Bureau of Street Use and Mapping…
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