SECTION 69 LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
   The commission shall have power by ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of all things in the nature of local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of the cost thereof by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property. The amount assessed against the property specially benefited to pay for any such local improvement shall not exceed the amount of benefits accruing to such property.