(A) Before the Village Council shall consider the making of any local improvement, the Village Council shall cause to be prepared a report which shall include necessary plans, profiles, specifications and detailed estimates of cost, an estimate of the life of the improvement, a description of the assessment district or districts and any other pertinent information as will permit the Village Council to decide the cost, extent and necessity of the improvement proposed, what part or proportion thereof should be paid by special assessments upon the property especially benefitted and what part, if any, should be paid by the village at large, and determine the number of installments in which assessments may be paid. The Village Council shall not finally determine to proceed with the making of any local public improvement until the report has been filed, nor until after a public hearing has been held by the Village Council for the purpose of hearing objections to the making of the improvement.
(B) After receiving the report required in division (A) above for making any local public improvement as requested in the resolution of the Village Council, and the Village Council having reviewed the report, a resolution may be passed tentatively determining the necessity of the improvement, setting forth the nature thereof, prescribing what part or proportion of the cost of the improvement shall be paid by special assessment upon the property especially benefitted, determination of benefits received by affected properties, and what part, if any, shall be paid by the village at large; designating the limits of the special assessment district to be affected, designating whether to be assessed according to frontage or other benefits, placing the complete information on file in the office of the Village Clerk, where the same may be found for examination, and directing the Village Clerk to give notice of public hearing on the proposed improvement, at which time and place opportunity will be given interested persons to be heard. The notice shall be given by two publications, one publication to be at least ten days prior to the hearing, the publication to be in a newspaper published or circulated within the village and by first class mail addressed to each owner or person in interest in property to be assessed as shown by the last general tax assessment roll of the village. The notice by mail shall be mailed at least ten full days prior to the date of the hearing. The hearing required by this section may be held at any regular, adjourned or special meeting of the Village Council.
(C) At the public hearing on the proposed improvement, all persons interested shall be given an opportunity to be heard, after which the Village Council may modify the scope of the local public improvement in a manner as it shall deem to be in the best interest of the village as a whole; provided that if the amount of work is increased or additions are made to the district, then another hearing shall be held pursuant to notice prescribed in division (B) above.
(Ord. passed 4-30-2001)