Before determining to make any improvement, any part of the cost of which is to be defrayed by special assessment, the City Commission shall, by resolution, require the City Manager to prepare, or cause to be prepared, plans and specifications therefor and an estimate of the cost thereof, and to file the same with the City Clerk, together with his recommendation as to what portion of the cost should be paid by special assessment and what part, if any, should be a general obligation of the City, the number of installments in which assessments may be paid and the land which should be included in the special assessment district. After the report is filed with the Clerk, it shall be presented to the Commission and such report shall be available for public examination.
Whenever any land which should be included in the special assessment district is not assessed because it is owned by a public agency, a written agreement may be reached providing for the payment of such agency's benefiting share of the cost of the improvement. This agreement, or advice that such agreement cannot be reached, shall be presented to the Commission prior to the adoption by the Commission of the resolution provided for in Section 216.06.
Whenever any property is acquired by condemnation or otherwise for the purpose of any improvement, the cost thereof and of the proceedings required to acquire such property may be added to the cost of such improvement.
(1975 Code Sec. 1.95)