The purpose of this chapter is to provide an alternative procedure by which the council may provide funding for the whole or any part of the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating specified public improvements of a local nature, payable from annual benefit assessments to be apportioned among the several lots or parcels of property within the maintenance district established therefor in conformity with a method of apportionment which is to be determined in the proceedings in which jurisdiction is provided therefor.
(Ord. 1586 §11 (part))