Section 209-H. Increase of maximum amount to be expended

1. At any time
  after the establishment of an improvement district or  of  an  extension
  thereof  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this  article  or  any other
  applicable provision of law, the maximum amount proposed to be  expended
  for  the improvement in such district, as stated in the notice of public
  hearing on the establishment or  extension  of  such  district,  may  be
  increased  by  an  order  of the town board provided that the town board
  shall, after a public hearing  is  held  in  the  manner  prescribed  by
  section  two hundred nine-d of this article, determine that it is in the
  public interest to authorize the increase of such  maximum  amount,  and
  provided the comptroller of the state of New York shall have made as may
  be required pursuant to subdivision one of section two hundred nine-f of
  this article, after such public hearing, an order approving the increase
  of  such  maximum  amount  as  stated in the said notice of hearing. The
  order of the comptroller shall be prepared in  duplicate  and  one  copy
  thereof  filed  in the office of the department of audit and control and
  the other copy in the office of the town clerk of the town. The order of
  the town board increasing the maximum amount to  be  expended  shall  be
  subject to a permissive referendum in the manner provided in subdivision
  three of section two hundred nine-e of this article. The comptroller may
  not  make  an  order approving the increase in such maximum amount until
  after the expiration of the time for filing a petition  requesting  that
  the  matter  be submitted to referendum or, if such a petition is filed,
  unless  the  vote  on  the  proposition  submitted  at  referendum   was
  affirmative.
    2.  If the notice of public hearing for the establishment or extension
  of the district proposes only the performance or  supplying  of  certain
  services, and states the maximum amount to be expended annually for such
  services, the maximum amount to be expended annually may be increased by
  an order of the town board provided the town board shall, after a public
  hearing,  determine  that  it is in the public interest to authorize the
  increase of such maximum amount. The town board  shall  give  notice  of
  such hearing by publication of a notice in at least one newspaper having
  general  circulation  in  the  district specifying the time when and the
  place where such hearing will be held and stating the increase  proposed
  in  the  maximum  amount  to  be expended annually. Such notice shall be
  published once at least ten days prior to the date  specified  for  such
  hearing.  The  approval of the state comptroller to such increase in the
  maximum amount to be expended annually shall not be required.