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i I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I when the improvement has been petitioned for pursuant to Subdivision 1. When there has been no such petition, the resolution may be adopted only by four-fifths of all members of the Council. IMPROVEMENTS, PETITION When any petition for the making of any public improvement or in opposition to any public improvement, the Council shall, by resolution, determine whether or not the petition has been signed by the required percentage of owners of property affected thereby, or as to the sufficiency of said petition. APPEAL FROM DETERMINATION OF LEGALITY OF PETITION Any person, being aggrieved by the determination made in Section 210.01.6 above, may appeal to the district court of Anoka County by serving upon the Clerk of the City, within thirty days after the adoption of the resolution, a notice of appeal briefly stating the grounds of appeal and giving a bond in the penal sum of $250.00, in which the City shall be named as obligee, to be approved by the Clerk of the City, conditioned that the appellant will duly prosecute the appeal, pay all costs and disbursements which may be adjudged against him/her, and abide by the order of the court. The Clerk shall furnish the appellant a certified copy of the petition, or any part thereof, on being paid by appellant of the proper charges therefore. The appeal shall be placed upon the calendar of the next general term commencing more than thirty days after the date of serving the notice and filing the bond and shall be tried as are other appeals in such cases. Unless reversed upon the appeal, the determination of the Council as to the sufficiency of the petition shall be final and conclusive. COUNCIL PROCEDURE Subdivision 1. Plans And Specifications. Advertisement Fo~ Bids. When the Council determines to make any improvement, it shall cause plans and specifications of the improvement to be made, or if previously made, to be modified, if necessary, and to be approved and filed with the Clerk, and if the estimated cost exceeds $10,000.00, shall advertise for bids for the improvement in the newspaper and such other papers and for such length of time as it may deem advisable. If the estimated cost exceeds $100,000.00, publication shall be made once in the newspaper and at least once in a newspaper or trade paper published in a city of the first class no less than three weeks before the last day for submission of bids. To be eligible as such a trade paper, a publication shall have all the qualifications of a legal newspaper except that instead of the requirement that it hsall contain general and local news, such trade paper shall contain building and construction news of interest to contractors in this state, among whom it shall have general circulation. The advertisement shall specify the work to be done, shall state the