How a maintenance district is proposed and noticed

(a) The chief engineer shall prepare a resolution, requiring one reading for its adoption, defining the boundaries of the maintenance district, scope of work to be performed concerning such maintenance, which may include but not be limited to: (1) The repair, removal, or replacement of any part of the improvement; (2) The estimated cost of maintenance for the assessment year that shall be for a period of 12 months commencing on the date when the assessment is due; (3) The method of assessment; (4) The portions of cost to be specifically benefited, with the estimated total amount of assessment to be made against each property according to the method of assessment proposed; the necessary surveys, maps, plans, drawings, and other data; (5) Details for the maintenance; (6) The comments and recommendations of the advisory committee with respect to such report; and (7) Any other matters or details intended to apply thereto. The resolution shall also fix the date for a public hearing upon the proposed maintenance district. Such resolution shall be submitted to the council for action. (b) The city clerk shall cause a notice of the public hearing to be published twice a week for two consecutive weeks (four publications in all) in a newspaper of general circulation in the city, giving notice generally to all owners and lessees of land proposed to be assessed and to all others interested in the general details of the proposed maintenance district as adopted by the council, either by expressed description or by reference to data supplied by the chief engineer and stating the time and place of the public hearing wherein such persons may object to and suggest modifications to the proposed maintenance district and may question the benefits of the proposed maintenance district to their property and the amount of any assessment thereon, and where the resolution and other data may be seen and examined before the hearing. Not less than 10 days before the public hearing, a notice thereof, stating the time and place of the hearing where persons may object to and suggest modifications to the proposed maintenance district and where pertinent data relating to the proposed maintenance district may be obtained, shall be mailed to the several owners and lessees on record at the department of budget and fiscal services, to their addresses on record at the department, by certified or registered mail with a request for a return receipt. Affidavits of publication and mailing shall be filed with the council at or before the hearing.