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SECTION 3.04. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. After filing the Local Improvement Assessment Roll in the office of the City Clerk, as required by Section 3.03(B) hereof, the City Clerk shall publish once in a newspaper of general circulation within the City, a notice stating that a public hearing of the City Commission will be held on a certain day and hour, not earlier than 20 calendar days from such publication, at which hearing the City Commission will receive written comments and hear testimony from all interested persons regarding definition of the Assessed Area and adoption of the Final Local Improvement Assessment Resolution. The published notice shall conform to the requirements set forth in the Uniform Assessment Collection Act. SECTION 3.05. NOTICE BY MAIL. In addition to the published notice required by Section 3.04, the City Clerk shall provide notice of the proposed local Improvement Assessment by first class mail to the owner of each parcel of property subject to the Assessment. The mailed notice shall conform to the requirements set forth in the Uniform Assessment Collection Act. Notice shall be mailed at least 20 calendar days prior to the hearing to each property owner at such address as is shown on the Tax Roll on the twentieth caiendar day prior to the date of mailing. Notice shall be deemed mailed upon delivery thereof to the possession of the U.S. Postal Service. The City Clerk may provide proof of such notice by affidavit. Failure of the owner to receive such notice due to mistake or inadvertence shall not affect the validity of the Local Improvement Assessment Roll or release or discharge any obligation for the payment of a Local Improvement Assessment imposed by the City Commission pursuant to this Ordinance. SECTION 3.06. ADOPTION OF FINAL LOCAL IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT RESOLUTION. At the time named in such notice, or such time to which an adjournment or continuance may be taken, the City Commission shall receive written objections and hear testimony of interested persons and may then, or at any subsequent meeting of the City Commission, adopt the Final Local Improvement Assessment Resolution which shall (A) define the Assessed Area; (B) confirm, modify or repeal the Initial Local Improvement Assessment Resolution with such amendments, if any, as may be deemed appropriate by the City Commission; (C) establish the maximum amount of the local Improvement Assessment for each Assessment Unit; (D) approve the Local Improvement Assessment Roll, with such amendments as it deems just and right; and (E) determine the method of collection. Following adoption of the Final local Improvement Assessment Resolution but prior to the date on which the local Improvement Assessment Roll is certified for collection pursuant to Article V hereof, the City Commission may Ordinance No. 04-1137 Page 8 of 23