In performing its functions, the Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To employ an executive director and other necessary personnel within the limits of funds made available. The executive director shall be a person who has training and experience in the field of intergroup relations;
(B) To conduct or arrange for research projects and studies into and public reports on discrimination and progress in equal opportunity in the community;
(C) To accept gifts or bequests, grants, or other payments, public or private, to help finance its activities;
(D) To receive, initiate, investigate, seek to conciliate, and hold hearings on complaints alleging discrimination;
(E) To recommend methods for elimination of discrimination and intergroup tensions, and to use its best efforts to secure compliance with its recommendations;
(F) To cooperate with other intergroup relations agencies, both public and private, on the local, state, and national level in performing its functions under this subchapter;
(G) To cooperate with the various departments, agencies, and boards of the city and/or county or the state in effectuating the purposes of this subchapter;
(H) To enlist the support of civic, labor, religious, professional, and educational organizations and institutions in community activities and programs that will further the goals of this subchapter;
(I) To organize community committees and councils that will work toward the goals of this subchapter;
(J) To recommend legislation to the city and the county legislative bodies and modes of executive action to the Mayor and the County Judge/Executive that will effectuate the purposes of this subchapter;
(K) To submit an annual report of its activities and of the progress and problems in intergroup relations in the community to the Mayor and to the County Judge/Executive and the City Commission and County Fiscal Court; and
(L) To adopt, promulgate, amend, and rescind rules and regulations to effectuate the policies and provisions of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 23.104) (Ord. 80-8, passed 5-14-1980)