Section 202-D. Increase of maximum amount to be expended

1. At any time
  after the establishment of an improvement district  the  maximum  amount
  proposed  to be expended for the improvement in such district, as stated
  in the petition for the establishment of such district, may be increased
  by an order of the  town  board  provided  a  petition  requesting  such
  increase  signed  as  required by section one hundred ninety-one of this
  article is presented to the town  board  and  provided  the  town  board
  shall,  after a public hearing ordered and held in the manner prescribed
  by sections one hundred ninety-three and one hundred ninety-four 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  six  of  section  one  hundred ninety-four of this article,
  after such public hearing, an  order  approving  the  increase  of  such
  maximum  amount  as stated in the petition. 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.
    2. If the petition for establishment 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.