The council may, in its resolution declaring its intention to order work done or improvements made or acquired in proceedings for that purpose, or it may, by separate resolution in proceedings for the sole purpose of establishing a maintenance district, declare its intention to order that the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating specified public improvements of a local nature, including the cost of necessary repairs, replacements, fuel, power, electrical current, care, supervision, and any and all other items deemed reasonably necessary for the proper maintenance and operation thereof, shall be assessed either partly or wholly upon such property as the council shall determine will be benefitted by the maintenance and operation of the public improvements proposed to be maintained and operated; the amounts so assessed to be collected in the same manner and by the same county officers as the taxes for general city purposes are collected.
(Ord. 1586 §11 (part))