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subdistricts if the capital improvement project and costs only benefit a subtrunk or subdistrict area. <br />If the Commission determines that a capital improvement and capital cost benefits only a subtrunk <br />or subdistrict area it may so designate that said area shall be responsible for said costs and may <br />allocate the costs to said area or areas rather than to the entire watershed. <br />The Board shall then hold a public hearing on the proposed improvement after mailed <br />notice to the clerk of each member governmental unit within the Watershed The Commission shall <br />not be required to mail or publish notice except by said notice to the clerk. Said notice shall be <br />mailed not less than 45 days before the hearing, shall state the time and place of the hearing, the <br />general nature of the improvement, the estimated total cost and the estimated cost to each member <br />governmental unit. The Board may adjourn said hearing to obtain further information, may <br />hearing <br />continue said pending action of the member governmental units or may take such other <br />action as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this Commission. <br />To order the improvement, in accordance with the powers and duties established in Article <br />VI, Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9, a resolution setting forth the order for a capital improvement project <br />shah require a favorable vote by two - thirds of all eligible votes of the then existing Board of the <br />a I <br />Corar ission. (In all cases other than for a capital improvement project, a majority vote of all <br />eligible members of the Board shall be sufficient to order the work.) The order shall describe the <br />improvement, shall allocate in percentages the cost allocation between the member governmental <br />units, shall designate the engineers to prepare plans and specifications, and shall designate the <br />member who will contract for the improvement in accordance with Subdivision 7 of this Article. <br />After the Board has ordered an improvement it shall forward to all member governmental <br />units an estimated time schedule for the construction of said improvement. The Board shall allow <br />an adequate amount of time, and in no event less than 45 days, for each member governmental unit <br />to conduct hearings, in accordance with the provisions of the aforestated Chapter 429, or the <br />charter requirements of any city, or to ascertain the method of financing which said member <br />governmental unit utilize to pay its proportionate share of the costs of the improvement. Each <br />member governmental unit shall ascertain within a period of 90 days the method it shall use to pay <br />its proportionate share of the costs. <br />If the Commission proposes to utilize Anoka County's bonding authority as set forth in <br />Minnesota Statutes, Section 103B.251, or if the Commission proposes to certify all or any part of <br />a capital improvement to Anoka County for payment, then and in that event all proceedings shall be <br />carried out in accordance with the provisions set forth in said Section 103B.251. <br />Subdivision 5. The Board shall not order and no engineer shall be authorized by the Board I <br />to prepare plans and specifications before the Board has adopted a resolution ordering the <br />improvement. The Board may order the advertising for bids upon receipt of notice from each I <br />member govemmental unit who will be assessed that it has completed its hearing or determined its <br />0(04 1 <br />