those same lines, on city-owned trees, the maintenance of those trees are done by city staff or outside contractors? >> parmele by city staff. in some cases, property owners can and do work with our city claims departments if constraints would delay our work. they can hire their own contractor and get reimbursed by the city. which is what occurred in this case. president goh: thank you. we can take public comment now. can i see a show of hands, any people? ok. how many minutes? president goh: 2 minutes. it is late and we have two more cases. if you could do it in one it would be much appreciated. whoever would like to go first, please come up to the mike. president goh: can everyone else lined up? >> i live directly from these -- across from these trees and half for 22 years. if i had been able to i would fight for my own tree which was in front of my house. i want to assure you, this is directly across the street from two of those trees. this is my -- i live on the entire top floor. the tree that got cut down, can you see it? the canopy spread all over the rooms. i had two certified arborist tell me it was fi