§ 166. Preliminary resolution.

When it is deemed necessary to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessment, the council shall declare the necessity therefor by resolution, and such resolution shall state the method of assessments, the mode of payment, the number of annual installments, and the portion of the cost to be borne by the city. Such resolution shall contain a description of the lots and lands to be assessed and it shall be sufficient to describe the lots and lands abutting upon the improvement and to be assessed therefor, as all the lots and lands bounding and abutting upon such improvement between and including the termini of the improvement; and in describing lands which do not abut, it shall be sufficient to describe the lots by their appropriate lot numbers, and the lands by metes and bounds; and this rule of description shall apply in all proceedings in which lots and lands are to be charged with special assessments. Such resolution shall also determine the general nature of the improvement, what shall be the grade of the street, or other public place to be improved, the grade or elevation of the curbs and shall approve the plans, specifications, estimates and profiles for the proposed improvement.