(A) After the Council shall have approved the Engineer’s report as submitted or modified, the Council shall, by resolution, declare its intention to make such improvement, provide the manner and method of carrying out the improvement, and shall direct the Recorder to give notice of such improvement by two publications one week apart in a newspaper of general circulation within the city, and by mailing copies of such notice by registered or certified mail to the owners to be assessed for the costs of such improvement.
(B) Said notice shall contain the following matters:
(1) The report of the City Engineer is on file in the office of the Recorder and is subject to public examination;
(2) The Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed improvement on a specified date, which shall not be earlier than 30 days following the first publication of notice pursuant to O.R.S. 223.117, at which objections and remonstrances to such improvement will be heard by the Council; and that if prior to such hearing there shall be presented to the Recorder valid written remonstrances of the owners of property upon which more than 33% of the total amount of the assessment is levied, then the improvement will be abandoned;
(3) A description of the property to be specially benefitted by the improvement, the owners of such property, and the Engineer’s estimate of the unit cost of the improvement to the property to be specially benefitted, and the total cost of the improvement to be paid for by special assessments to benefitted properties; and
(4) The Council may provide in the improvement resolution that the construction work may be done in whole, or in part by the city, by a contract, or by any other governmental agency, or by any combination thereof.
(Prior Code, § 31.03) (Ord. 120, passed 2-1-1971)