3.12.100 Method of assessment and alternative methods of financing.
The Council in adopting a method of assessment of the costs of the public improvement may:
A. Use any just and reasonable method of determining the extent of any improvement district consistent with the benefits derived;
B. Use any method of apportioning the sum to be assessed as is just and reasonable between the properties determined to be specially benefited;
C. Authorize payment by the City of all or any part of the cost of any such improvement when in the opinion of the Council, due to topographical or physical conditions or excessive public travel, or other character of the work involved, or when the Council otherwise believes the situation warrants it, provided the method selected creates a reasonable relation between the benefits derived by the property specially assessed and the benefits derived by the city as a whole.
Nothing herein contained shall preclude the Council from using other available means of financing public improvements, including federal or state grants-in-aid, sewer service or other types of service charges, revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, or other legal means of finance. In the event any of such other means of finance are used, the Council may, in its discretion, levy special assessments hereunder according to benefits to cover any part of the costs of the improvement not covered by such means. (Ord. 2-1961 § 10, 1961.)