12.15.110 Assessment procedure.
A. When the estimated cost of an authorized local improvement has been ascertained on the basis of the city’s estimate of costs, the award of a contract, or any other basis acceptable to the council, or after the work has been completed and the actual cost has been determined, the recorder, or other such person as the council may direct, shall prepare the proposed assessment to the respective lots within the local improvement district, file it in the office of the recorder and submit it to the council. The submission may be in the form of a proposed resolution.
B. Upon receipt of the proposed assessments, the council shall, after any modifications, adopt a resolution directing notice of the proposed assessments to be mailed or personally delivered to the owners or reputed owners of the lots proposed to be assessed. The notice shall contain the following information:
1. The name of the owner, or reputed owner, the description of the property assessed, the total estimated or actual costs assessed against benefited property, and the amount of the assessment against the described property.
2. A date and time by which written objections to the proposed assessment, stating specifically the grounds for objection, must be received, and the time and the date of a public hearing at which the council will consider any objections.
3. A statement that the assessment in the notice, as it may be modified by the council, will be levied by the council after the hearing and will thereafter be charged against the property and will be immediately payable in full or in installments, if applicable.
C. Supplementary notice of the proposed assessment and the public hearing on the assessment may be published or posted by the recorder, in a form and content to be determined by the recorder.
D. The council shall hold the public hearing on the proposed assessments to consider written objections, and may adopt, correct, modify or revise the proposed assessments. The council shall determine the amount of assessment to be charged against each lot in the district according to the special and peculiar benefits accruing from the improvement, and shall, by ordinance, spread the assessments. [Ord. 897 § 11, 2015.]