13.16.040 Resolution and notice.
A. After the council has approved the report, the council shall declare by resolution its intention to make the local improvement. This resolution shall include specific findings stating the reasons it is in the public interest to proceed with the local improvement, and any amount property owners will be required to deposit with the city as payment toward city costs. The resolution shall also direct the city engineer to publish notice of the improvement and mail notice to the record owners of the property to be assessed.
B. The published notice shall contain a general description of the project together with (1) a map showing the boundaries of the local improvement district and the lots as shown on the Hood River County Assessor’s map, or (2) a general description of all the property to be specially benefited by the improvement, including a list of the owners of the property. If published notice is given by the method described in subparagraph B(1), the published notice need not contain the items described in subparagraphs C(5) and C(6).
C. The published notice and mailed notice shall state:
1. The report on the improvement is subject to public examination in the Hood River Administration Building;
2. The Council will hold a public hearing on the proposed improvement on a specified date, which shall not be earlier than 10 days following the publication of notice, at which time objections and remonstrances to the improvement will be heard;
3. Except with respect to a sidewalk or an improvement unanimously declared by council to be needed due to an emergency, if there are valid written remonstrances of the owners of two-thirds of the property to benefit specially by the improvement, then no further action to effect the improvement will be taken for six months;
4. The estimated total cost of the improvement to be paid by special assessment;
5. An estimate of the cost to each property specially benefited; and
6. A legal description of the specific property to be specially benefited by the improvement.
D. In the resolution declaring the intent to form a local improvement district, the Council may provide that the engineering and construction work shall be done in whole or in part by the city, by a contract, by another governmental agency, or by any combination thereof.