Spokane Municipal Code

Title 07 Finance

Chapter 07.05 Local Improvements

Article IV. Hearing Provisions

Section 07.05.450 Notice – Assessment Hearing

1. The engineering services department causes notice of the assessment roll hearing to be published in at least two consecutive issues of the official newspaper, the last publication to be at least fifteen days before the date fixed for the hearing.

2. The engineering services department, at least fifteen days prior to the date set for the hearing, mails notice of the assessment roll hearing to the owner and reputed owner of the property whose name appears on the assessment roll, at the address shown on the tax rolls of the County treasurer, for each item of property described on the list.

3. The published notice is identified as an “Assessment Roll Hearing Notice” and contains at least the following information:

1. 1. Boundaries of the district.

1. 2. Description of the improvement.

1. 3. Time and place of the hearing.

1. 4. Statement that specific information regarding the assessment roll may be obtained from the engineering services department.

1. 5. Statement that written objections to the assessment roll must comply with the requirements of SMC 7.05.480 and be submitted to the director of engineering services by the date scheduled for the hearing, and that only those persons who shall have submitted such written objection will be permitted to testify at the hearing.

1. 6. Statement that the hearing will be held before the City of Spokane hearing examiner and that it will be the only hearing on the assessment roll.

1. 7. Statement that at the time and place fixed for the hearing on the assessment roll (and at times to which the hearing may be adjourned) the hearing examiner will sit as a board of equalization for the purpose of considering the assessment roll.

1. 8. Statement that at the hearing the hearing examiner will consider the objections made and may correct, revise, raise, lower, change or modify the roll or any part thereof, or set aside the roll and order the assessment to be made anew.

1. 9. Statement that the decision of the hearing examiner will be final unless it be appealed to the city council.

1. 10. Statement that the decision of the hearing examiner may be appealed by only persons who have submitted written objections that comply with the requirements of this article and that all appeals must comply with the requirements of SMC 7.05.540.

1. 11. Office address and telephone number of the individuals in the engineering services department from whom additional information may be obtained.

4. The mailed notice must contain all of the information required for the published notice and, in addition, at least the tax code number for each lot, tract or parcel within the district boundaries owned by the property owner and the assessment for each of said lots, tracts or parcels.

Date Passed: Monday, May 7, 2007

Effective Date: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Recodification ORD C34024 Section 1