All officers and members of boards and commissions of the Municipality holding office on December 31, 1972, shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until provisions shall have been otherwise made in accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of the duties of any such office. When such provisions shall have been made, the term of any such officer or member shall expire. The powers which are conferred and the duties which are imposed upon any officer, commission, board or department of the Municipality under the general laws of the State of Ohio, or under any ordinance or contract of the Municipality in force on December 31, 1972, shall, if such office, commission, board or department is abolished by this Charter, thereafter be exercised and discharged by the officer, commission, board or department upon whom or which are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties by this Charter or by any ordinance or resolution of the Council thereafter enacted.