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objections to the proposed assessment, whether presented orally or in writing. The Council may amend the proposed assessment as to any parcel and by resolution adopt the same as the special assessment against the lands named in the assessment roll. Notice of any adjournment of the hearing shall be adequate if the minutes of the meeting so adjourned show the time and place, when and where the hearing is to be continued, or if three days notice thereof be published in the newspaper. The Council may consider any objection to the amount of a proposed assessment as to a specific parcel of land at an adjourned hearing upon further notice to the affected property owner as it deems advisable. At the adjourned hearing the Council or a committee of it may hear further written or oral testimony on behalf of the objecting property owner and may consider further written or oral testimony from appropriate City officials and other witnesses as to the amount of the assessment. The Council or committee shall prepare a record of the proceedings at the adjourned hearing and written findings as to the amount of the assessment. The amount of the assessment as finally determined by the Council shall become a part of the adopted assessment roll. Ail objections to the assessments not received at the assessment hearing in the manner prescribed by this section are waived unless the failure to object at the assessment hearing is due to a reasonable cause. The assessment, with accruing interest, shall be a lien upon all private and ublic property included therein, from the date of the resolution adopting the assessment, concurrent with the general taxes; but the lien shall not be enforceable against public property as long as it is publicly owned, and during such period the assessment shall be recoverable from the owner of such property only in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 210.0.16 of this code. Except as provided below, all assessments shall be payable in equal annual installments extending over such period, not exceeding thirty years, as the resolution determines, payable on the first Monday in January in each year, but the number of installments need not be uniform for all assessments included in a single assessment roll if a uniform criterion for determining the number of installments is provided by the resolution. The first installment of each assessment shall be included in the first tax rolls completed after its adoption and shall be payable in the same year as the taxes contained therein; except that the payment of the first installment of any assessment levied upon payment of the first installment of any assessment levied upon unimproved property may be deferred until a designated future year or until the platting of the property or the construction of improvements thereon, upon such terms and conditions and based upon such standards and criteria as may be provided by resolution of the Council. If special assessments against the property have been deferred pursuant to this subdivision, the city shall file with the Anoka County Recorder a certificate containing the legal description of the affected property and the amount deferred. In any event, every