The district board may issue no-fund warrants to pay for initial organizational, engineering, legal and administrative expenses of the district, except that the amount so issued shall not exceed the product of two mills times the assessed valuation of the taxable tangible property within the district, which warrants shall be issued, bear interest and be retired in accordance with the provisions of Kan. Stat. Ann. § 79-2940, and amendments thereto, except that the approval of the state board of tax appeals shall not be required. Whenever warrants have been issued under this section, the board shall make a tax levy at the first tax levying period, after such warrants are issued sufficient to pay such warrants and interest.

Annually, after the assessment of property for the purpose of taxation has been made in any county in which a part of the joint drainage district lies, the county clerk of such county shall thereupon ascertain the total assessed valuation of all taxable tangible property in his county within the joint drainage district and certify the same to the county clerk of the official county of the joint drainage district designated as authorized by Kan. Stat. Ann. § 24-664, and amendments thereto.