(A) Before the Council shall consider making any local public improvement, the local public improvement contemplated shall be referred by resolution to the City Manager, directing him to prepare a report which shall include necessary plans, profiles, specifications and detailed estimates of cost, an estimate of the life of the improvement, a description of the assessment district and such other pertinent information as will permit the Council to decide the cost, extent and necessity of the improvement proposed and what part or proportion thereof should be paid by special assessments upon the property especially benefitted and what part, if any, should be paid by the city at large.
(B) The Council shall not finally determine to proceed with the making of any local public improvement until such report of the City Manager has been filed nor until after a public hearing has been held by the Council for the purpose of hearing objections to the making of such improvement.
(1993 Code, § 54-4)