Notice of hearing on the engineer's report and the proposed assessment shall be provided by mail to each record owner in accordance with the provisions of California Constitution Article XIIID, Sections 4(c), (d) and (e) and Government Code Section 53753, as that section may be amended or renumbered. The hearing shall be held not sooner than forty-five (45) days from the date that the notice was mailed in accordance with the said provisions.
The notice of hearing shall:
A. Include a statement of the total amount of the proposed assessment to be charged to the district, the amount chargeable to the record owner's parcel, the duration of the payments, the reason for the assessment and the basis upon which the amount of the proposed assessment was calculated;
B. Specify the date, time and location of the public hearing on the proposed assessment;
C. Include, in a conspicuous place, a summary of the procedures for the completion, return and tabulation of the assessment ballots required pursuant to subsection E of this section;
D. Include a statement that the assessment shall not be imposed if the ballots submitted in opposition to the assessment exceed the ballots submitted in favor of the assessment, with ballots weighted according to the proportional financial obligation of the affected property;
E. Include an assessment ballot that includes the city's address (including the site of the hearing) for receipt of the form and a place where the person returning the assessment ballot may indicate his or her name, a reasonable identification of the parcel, and his or her support or opposition to the proposed assessment. The city clerk may include an envelope for the return of the assessment ballot. Where appropriate, the ballot information may include a statement of the total number of ballots possible within the proposed district for purposes of weighting and counting of the ballots in accordance with the provisions of subsection (e) of Section 4 of Article XIIID of the California Constitution;
F. Indicate the date of passage of the resolution of intention, and state that the city council intends to levy an annual special assessment on each parcel of land within the proposed district to pay the cost of maintenance of the public improvements;
G. Generally describe the public improvements to be maintained, and the maintenance services to be provided by the district;
H. Describe the location and boundaries of the district;
I. State that the engineer's report is on file with the city clerk and is open to public inspection;
J. State that at the public hearing, the city council will hear all protests of record owners, and will accept testimony from any interested person, whether such person is an owner or not;
K. State the name and telephone number of the city employee or department where questions about the proposed district will be received. (Ord. 98-017 § 2; prior code § 81.02.206)