73A.7 - HEARING AND DECISION.
73A.7 HEARING AND DECISION.
At such hearing, the appellants and any other interested person
may appear and be heard. The appeal board shall examine, with the
aid of competent assistants, the entire record, and if it shall find
that the form of contract is suitable for the improvement proposed,
that the improvement and the method of providing for payment therefor
is for the best interests of the municipality and the taxpayers
therein, and that such improvements can be made within the estimates
therefor, it shall approve the same. Otherwise, it may reject the
same as a whole or, it shall recommend such modifications of the
plans, specifications, or contract, as in its judgment shall be for
the public benefit, and if such modifications are so made, it shall
approve the same.
The appeal board shall certify its decision to the body proposing
to enter into such contract unless it shall have rejected the same as
a whole, whereupon the municipality shall advertise for bids and let
the contract subject to the approval of the appeal board which shall
at once render its final decision thereon and transmit the same to
the municipality. Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 357; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73,
75, 77, 79, 81, § 23.7] Section History: Recent Form
C93, § 73A.7
Referred to in § 390.3