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STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT POLICY 1. Streets or public easements must have been used for travel prior to December 31, 1985. 2. Abutters petition City Council in writing to improve the street or public easement. 3. City Council will instruct the Public Works Department to prepare a report on the estimated total costs and estimated assessment of completing the improvements. 4. The City Council shall, if they deem the project feasible both from a construction and financial standpoint, request the City Administrator to submit a recommendation for financing the City's share of the project. 5. The City Council, when in agreement with the proposed financing, shall instruct the Public Works Department to proceed with the construction of the project provided all the requirements of Section 7 are complied with. 6. The Public Works Department will advise each fee-holder of land adjacent to the public street or public easement of the estimated amount of the assessment to be made against him for such improvements which must be deposited within six months with the City Treasurer. 7. The City Treasurer shall notify the Public Works Department when seventy-five (75) percent of the abutters in number or seventy-five (75) percent of the abutters in terms of the relationship between their estimated assessments and the estimated total assessments for the entire project shall have made such deposits. 8. When the improvements have been completed, the City shall then proceed to assess one-half of the total cost of the project on the property adjacent to and bounded by such street or public easement in accordance with the provisions of Title 23 M.R.S.A. Section 3601 et. seq.