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filed they shall be inquired into before the commencement of the proposed improvements and the Director of Law shall be and is hereby authorized and directed to institute legal proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction to inquire into any claims so filed. Section 5. The cost of said improvement to be assessed shall be assessed in the manner and the number of installments provided in the Resolution and on the lots and lands abutting and abounding upon said improvement between and including the termini of the improvement as ap- proved by the Board in its report, and the cost of said improvements shall include the cost of pre- liminary and other surveys, plans, specifications, profiles and estimates and of printing, serving and publishing notices, resolutions and ordinances the amount thereon; the costs incurred in con- nection with the preparation, levy and collection of the special assessments; the cost of purchas- ing, appropriating and otherwise acquiring therefor any required real estate or interests therein; expenses of legal services, including obtaining any approved legal opinions; the cost of labor and material, together with all other necessary expenditures. Section 6. The City having received bids for the completion of the work since the report of the Board, the list of estimated assessments as heretofore prepared by the Director of Finance and as approved by the Board in its report be and the same is hereby modified to reflect that the total assessment amount shall be changed from $1,831.00 to $1,878.00 per property, and the as- sessments so to be levied shall be paid in 20 semiannual installments, provided that the owner of any property to be assessed may at his option pay such assessment in cash within 30 days of completion of the improvement. Section 7. Pursuant to Article XVI, Section 16 of the Charter of the City, the Director of Public Works has certified to this Council that this estimate of the life of the improvement de- scribed herein is 20 years. Section 8. The Director of Public Works be and he is hereby authorized and directed as soon as the funds hereof are available to make and execute a contract for materials and certain services with the lowest and best bidder after advertising according to law. Section 9. The Clerk of this Council be and she is hereby directed to deliver to the Fiscal Officer of Cuyahoga County a certified copy of this ordinance within 15 days following its pas- sage. Section 10. It is found that the improvements to be made pursuant to this ordinance have been petitioned for in writing by the owners of a majority of the foot frontage to be assessed. Section 11. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such for- mal action were in meetings open to the public in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 12. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure for the rea- sons stated in the preamble hereof, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council it shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption and ap-