mr. rapada -- mr. leggett.we believe the most likely failure is a large limb failures, and these are large limbs. we thought with these very large limbs, which could be prone to failure, that was a reasonable decision. however, we did not have all of the recommendations from the other arborists, and we did not notekno notw -- we did not know what was a reasonable -- what was reasonable to us the homeowner to do. -- to ask the homeowner to do. president peterson: thank you. mr. leggett, do you have rebuttal? >> hi, my name is ms. gail o'connor, and i am the owner of the large tree. we had a total of two artists come out in the city, and they said, "ok, take it down." one neighbor protested too distant area people -- to distant area people, who said, "forget is, you are not going to take it down." -- "forget et." -- it." if you can do it with a rubber mallet, what about doing that with the rest of the decay that can be there? we are concerned about our neighbors. there was a church across the street. unlike the c