Fay Hill
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Let's say somebody and, the city council member, thank you for allowing me to testify in support of intro 8 0800 dash 2024.
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My name is Faye Hill.
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I'm a resident of Queens Springfield Gardens for over 40 year 48 years.
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And the chair of the community board 13 environmental for several years and an advocate for the New York City Parks and Green Space where I where I testified on behalf of New York for parks, rallied on this, the steps of city hall, and testified on various of New York City Council administration.
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I'm here to testify once more on the critical issue of why low tree maintenance is critical and unsafe for my community and other areas of the city.
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On several occasions, when we when I hosted the parks and environmental committee, community board 13 meetings, there are many concerns from the community in reference to low then dome maintenance of trees that are a major problem and are a danger to, to people and their property.
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This has been a long occurring problem and our committee meetings and no end is inside.
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I may anticipate personally today.
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On January 9, 2025, at approximately 2:30, one of the city trees fell down because of low maintenance.
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Luckily, this tree did not damage the roof of my home, but I had to replace electrical pole adjourned to my home and the wise of and the wires for con con Edison.
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This tree has been reported several times for over 6 years by my neighbor because of low maintenance when falling branches were reported breaking from the trees.
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But the New York Parks department forestry department, when they eventually inspected the tree, they reported that the tree was in good condition, and they placed a pin check on its bark.
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There's another tree directly in front of my home, which has the same condition, but Forest just said the tree is in perfect condition.
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There are several trees in our park in our parks in Rosehill and Springfield Gardens that need total maintenance.
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When a tree fall in between a park, broken limbs that are that can be hazardous to peep to people's life.
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They are left there for several months before they're either removed or cut down.
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We do need trees to help us breathe in oxygen, clean the environment, as well as beautification of our community, But proper care and maintenance is also vital.
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When trees are not properly maintained, they pose a threat to harm human or property as a result of of, on January 9th as stated above.
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When trees are not maintained, they are a threat from falling limbs on people, property, and building.
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As I also mentioned, it that the fallen tree damaged my neighbor's car that was parked in front of her her home when the neighbor had just returned a minute from shopping.
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This could have been a injury or killed her.
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The her car is totaled.
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I'm pleading for, to to the community and our city council to vote to, on intro 0080 dash 2024 into legislation.
