COEUR d'ALENE - The judge and jury is the Urban Forestry Committee, but the executioner is you, the property owner.

One Coeur d'Alene property owner wants help with the execution part, when it comes to trees, that is.

"I would love it so much," said LeeAnn Aerlyn, on any assistance she can receive from agencies in removing a giant cottonwood tree from her property at 422 Borah Ave. "It would be amazing. It would be a blessing, not only for me, for my tenant, and for everyone who uses that street."

The tree - estimated at 60 feet tall - is in need of some TLC.

It has dead branches around a cable line that runs through its cover. It hangs over a public street, across the road from Borah Elementary School.

But, like most everything else on a person's property, its care and upkeep is up to the owner. Even though some of the tree hangs over the public right of way, it's still up to the homeowner to keep the tree healthy.

"I wish I had someone I could send out and help them out," said Katie Kosanke, Coeur d'Alene Urban Forestry Coordinator.

By the city's standards, the tree needs some pruning.

But Aerlyn doesn't think that will be enough. She wants it removed because branches are always dying, falling off, and the roots of the tree have hampered her sidewalk and sewer system. Paying roughly $300 for a prune job just isn't worth it, she said. That's why she wants it out of her yard.

But as a tree that hangs in the public right of way, she needs to ask the Urban Forestry Committee for permission to yank it out. The commission will inspect the tree Friday morning.

But if the commission greenlights its removal, it's still up to the property owner to foot the bill.

"I'll have to find a way to do it," Aerlyn said.