154.07 Assessment roll hearing.
(A) Notice of assessment hearing.
(1) Timeliness. The City Recorder shall notify the owner of each property proposed to be assessed in the assessment report or his or her agent by depositing notice containing the information described in division (A)(3) below in the U.S. mail at least 14 days prior to the assessment hearing addressed to the owner of the property or his or her agent at the address last known to the city. If the address of the owner or of the owner’s agent is unknown to the city, the City Recorder shall mail the notice addressed to the owner or the owner’s agent at the address where the property is located.
(2) Publication of notice. Additionally, the City Recorder shall publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the city at least ten days before the hearing.
(3) Content of notice. The notice that is mailed shall state the amount of the estimated assessment proposed on the property. Both the published and the mailed notice shall state the time and the place for the hearing, that assessments will be established for each benefitted property, that oral or written objections to particular assessments, including the grounds therefore, may be heard or filed and that written remonstrances or objections to the project, overall may be heard at the hearing and that if equity owners representing 66% or more of the tax-appraised value of the areas of the LID file written remonstrances with the City Recorder within 30 days after the hearing, the project will be terminated and may not be revisited for at least six months, that the property owner may make application to pay the assessment in whole or in part by the installment method provided for in the Bancroft Bonding Act, O.R.S. 223.205 through 223.330, that if owners fail to apply for the Bancrofting method of financing, the amount must be paid within 30 days of the date of its entry in the unbonded lien docket.
(B) Assessment hearing.
(1) The purpose of the assessment hearing is to receive comments on, objections to or remonstrances to the following:
(a) The project as a whole or individual parts thereof;
(b) Whether or not a particular property is benefitted by the project; and
(c) The amount of the assessment levied against a particular property.
(2) Oral and written testimony may be presented.
(C) Final determination on assessments. Within 60 days of the assessment hearing described in division (B) above, the Council shall, by ordinance, adopt, correct, modify or revise the estimated assessments and adopt the final assessment roll, after consideration of the testimony presented at the hearing, and take such other action as it deems appropriate. (Ord. 92-05, passed 12/15/1992)