After the passage of such resolution the City Manager shall cause a notice to be prepared. The City Manager may designate a City employee as the “Weed Abatement Officer,” who shall be empowered to carry out for the City Manager, and give all notices, make all reports, and carry out all resolutions, as provided in this chapter. Such notice shall be substantially in the following form:

Notice To Destroy Weeds

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on    __________ pursuant to the provisions of Section 4 of Ordinance No.     _____ of the City of Sebastopol, the City Council of said City passed a resolution declaring that all weeds growing upon any private property or in any public street or alley, as defined in Section I of said Ordinance No. ____, constitute a public nuisance, must be abated by the destruction or removal thereof.

NOTICE IS Further GIVEN that property owners shall give written notice prior to the Public Hearing established herein stating that they have removed all such weeds from their property, and the abutting part of the street between the property line and the established curb line in front and alleys, if any, behind such property, and between the lot lines thereof as extended. Unless such notice is given and the weeds thereon removed, such weeds will be destroyed or removed and such nuisance abated by the City authorities. In this case the cost of such destruction or removal will be assessed upon the lots and lands from which, or from the front or rear of which such weeds shall have been destroyed or removed; and such cost will constitute a lien upon such lots or lands until paid and will be collected upon the next tax roll upon which general municipal taxes are collected. All property owners having any objections to the proposed destruction or removal of such weeds are hereby notified to attend a meeting of the Council of said City, to be held in the _____________    City of Sebastopol,

On _________     at ________    o’clock p.m., when and where their objections will be heard and given due consideration.

Dated this day of     ______________,

City Manager

City of Sebastopol