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contained in this Charter. Section 8.04. Special Assessment Procedure. percent (25 %) in number of the benefitted property owners (A benefitted property owner can only sign once regardless of the number of benefitted parcels owned and a four fifths affirmative vote of all of the Council. The Council resolution shall state the nature and scope of proposed improvement including the number of benefitted property owners, and shall provide means to obtain a cost estimate which shall set forth the cost of the improvement both in unit price and in total thereof. Upon receipt of such estimate, thc Council shall by resolution set a datc for a public hearing on the proposed improvement setting forth therein thc time, place and purpose of such hearing. Such thereto, a copy of such resolution including estimate unit prices and estimated total price thereof shall be mailed to each benefitted property owner at his /her last known address at Icast two (2) weeks prior to the date of said hearing. Failure to give mailed notice, or any defects in the notice, shall not invalidate the proceedings. At such hearing the City shall receive any written and oral statements, and hear any petitioners for or against the proposed improvement. At such hearing the City Council shall expected to offset thc proposed improvement cost. A period of sixty (60) days shall filed with thc Council, signed by a majority of the owners proposed to be assessed for such improvement, or when the improvement has been petitioned for, signed by a the number of those who petitioned for thc improvement, the Council shall not make such improvement at thc expense of the property benefitted, unless, in thc m antimc number to those who signed thc pctition against thc improvement; in which event thc Council may disregard the petition against the improvement. Any person whose name appoars on a pctition to thc Council for a local improvement, may withdraw his /her name by statement in writing filed with the Council before such petition is presented to the Council. Subdivision 2. Regardless of the provisions of Subdivision 1 of this section, when less than one hundred (100 %) percent of the estimated cost of the proposed improvement is to be paid for by special assessments, connection charges, or any outside funding sources othcr than thc City general fund, thc Council shall within one