A. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an alternative procedure by which the city council may provide for the payment or any part of the costs and expenses of maintaining and operating any public improvements which are local in nature, payable from annual benefit assessments apportioned among the several lots or parcels of property within the maintenance district established therefor, the nature and formula or formulae for which is to be determined in the proceedings in which jurisdiction is provided and to provide an alternative procedure by which the city council may reserve the right to elect to perform the work of maintaining and operating such public improvements by city forces in each of the years during which the district continues in existence, such election whether to proceed in this manner for a particular year to be determined and exercised each year at the time the budget and assessment are adopted for the year in question and not at the time the right to elect is reserved.

B. It is contemplated that such procedure will enable the affected owners to be benefited by maintenance and operation of public improvements not otherwise fully available to such property owners or not otherwise fully furnished by the city.

C. The enumeration of specific public improvements in this chapter shall not preclude the city from forming maintenance districts for other public improvements. (Ord. 4505 § 1, 2008; Ord. 2573 § 2, 1980; prior code § 18.04.110)