Review of Assessments.

Milwaukee City Charter § 11-11

in effect

11-11. Review of Assessments. As soon as any assessment of benefits or damages, or both, shall be made, as in the preceding sections of this chapter, the said commissioner shall give notice to all parties interested, by advertisement for not less than four days in the official papers of the said city, that such assessment has been made and is ready for inspection in his office, and that the same will be open for review and correction by the said commissioner, at his office, for not less than four days after the first publication of such notice, during certain hours, not less than two hours of each lay day, and that all persons interested will be heard by said commissioner in objection to such assessment, and generally, in the matter of such review and correction. It shall be sufficient to state in such notice, in brief, what such assessment has been made for, and in what locality, and no further notice or publication of such assessment shall be necessary. During the time mentioned in such notice, the said commissioner shall hear objections and evidence, and he shall have power to review, modify and correct such assessment, in such manner as he shall deem just, at any time during such review, and for three days thereafter; and thereupon said commissioner shall endorse such corrected and completed assessment upon or annex the same to the estimate of the cost of such improvement, made and filed in his office, as provided in section 6, of this chapter [s. 11.08], as amended, and shall file a duplicate of such estimate and assessment in the office of the city clerk, who shall lay the same before the common council at its next meeting; and thereupon the common council may confirm or correct said assessments, or any of them, or may refer the same back to the commissioner of public works for revision and correction; and the said common council, and the said commissioner of public works shall respectively have the like powers, and perform the like duties, in relation to such assessment, and any subsequent assessment made pursuant to such reference by the common council, as are prescribed and conferred in relation to the first assessment. (S. 6, Ch. 388, L. 1889.)

Source: City of Milwaukee Legislative Reference Bureau, Milwaukee City Charter and Code of Ordinances (city.milwaukee.gov master PDFs)URL: https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/ccClerk/Ordinances/City-Charter/CH11.pdf#page=8Fetched: 10/26/2026