Common Area work leads to more work

Our HOA hired a contractor to fix the panels in our concrete sidewalks in front of our homes. Not all the sidewalks were replaced, but just certain ones that were cracked or uprooted by neighboring trees. The contractor did a fine job to fixing the sidewalks until he got to the front of my home. They left a 3 inch lip above the soil level, and a 2 inch gap on the end of my walkway (which runs perpendicular to the sidewalk). We pointed out to the HOA professional that the contractor made errors when he formed this sidewalk, and that we now have a tripping hazard in the front of our house. After personally showing pictures and talking to the board about it, we find out a month later that if want to have the hazard that they created removed, that we have to pay for them to pour new concrete.

Am I wrong, but if there was no problem before hand and then the HOA created one by having this contractor come in, shouldn't they be financially responcible for fixing this problem and taking away the tripping hazard? I understand that our land may have erroded (from all the water we get from our neighbors), but shouldn't have the contractor taken this into account when pouring new slabs of concrete?

Thoughts??

Is the sidewalk on your land with a sidewalk easement? Or is the sidewalk land owned by the association?

If you own it, you could be liable for someone hurting themselves on your land. I would put out a bunch of traffic cones on the lip with a "trip hazard" sign and then ask the BOD to fix it. Hint, hint.

It is not uncommon to see new sidewalk cement as higher and differently positioned to other parts than what was there before.

Raise up your landscape (lawn)to meet the new height and fill in the 2" gap with a tube of cement.

Apparently, the board does not consider these as "hazards".

Are you saying that NO other homeowner has a different height level than before?