Section 280-E. Public hearing  


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  • When  the agency has caused such maps and
      plans to be prepared, it shall transmit  them  to  the  governing  body,
      together  with  a  report  of  its  proceedings and its recommendations,
      including a recommendation as to what officer, board or body  should  be
      the  administrative  head  or body of the proposed district. Such report
      may further include the recommendations relating to the establishment of
      two or more zones of assessment within the  proposed  district  and  the
      estimated  initial  allocation  of  the  cost of the construction of the
      facilities as between such zones to be assessed, levied and collected in
      each zone in the same manner and  at  the  same  time  as  other  county
      charges.  Upon  receipt  of  the  report  and  the  maps  and plans, the
      governing body shall call a public hearing upon a proposal to  establish
      a  county  district, to comprise the area or areas described and defined
      in said maps and plans. The clerk of the governing body  shall  cause  a
      notice  of  the  public  hearing  to  be  published at least once in the
      official newspapers of the county and in such other newspapers having  a
      general  circulation  in the proposed district as the governing body may
      direct, the first publications thereof to be not less than ten  or  more
      than twenty days before the day set therein for the hearing.  The notice
      of  hearing  shall  contain  a  description  of  the area or areas to be
      included within the proposed district, and  if  the  report  shall  have
      recommended  the  establishment of zones of assessment, a description of
      the area or areas to be included within each  zone  of  assessment,  the
      improvements  proposed,  the  maximum  amount  to  be  expended  for the
      improvement, the allocation of such maximum amount as between the  zones
      of  assessment recommended, if any, the proposed method of assessment of
      the cost and shall specify the time when and place where  the  governing
      body will meet to consider the matter and to hear all parties interested
      therein  concerning  the same. In the event that zones of assessment are
      provided for and an allocation of cost of the  facilities  between  such
      zones  of assessment, said notice shall further state that said zones of
      assessment and said allocations of cost may be changed from time to time
      by resolution of the governing  body  adopted  after  a  public  hearing
      whenever  said  governing  body  shall  determine  that such changes are
      necessary in the public interest.