No expenditure, except for the necessary procedures of the Council and for the preparing of necessary profiles, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost, shall be made for any public improvements, the cost of which is to be paid by special assessment upon the property especially benefitted thereby, until the Council has passed a resolution determining to proceed with such public improvement.
(1984 Code, § 1-05-050) (Ord. 41, passed 3-21-1974)