SECTION 2-17. RECALL AND REMOVAL APPLICABLE.

   All elective officers and those appointed to fill vacancies in elective office as herein provided, shall hold their respective office subject to the provisions of recall as provided by this Charter, and subject to removal from office as provided by law.

SECTION 2-18. COUNCIL TO DETERMINE SALARIES.

   The City Council of the City of Guthrie shall determine and fix from time to time the salaries of all employees of the City of Guthrie, and also the salaries of all officers of the City of Guthrie appointed by the City Council.

SECTION 2-19. COUNCIL TO REGULATE FISCAL AFFAIRS.

   The City Council shall have the power to raise revenue, make appropriations, and regulate all fiscal affairs of the City, subject to such limitations as may now or hereafter be imposed by the Oklahoma Constitution.

SECTION 2-20. AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS.

   The City Council may, while in session as a body, inquire into the conduct of any office, department or agency of the city, and investigate municipal affairs, or authorize and provide for such inquiries.

SECTION 2-21. AUTHORITY TO APPOINT SUBORDINATES, COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS.

   The City Council may, in addition to the appointment and removal of officers herein provided, appoint or elect and remove members of Commissions and Boards and other quasi-legislative or quasi-judicial officers, as provided by law or may from time to time be established by the City Council, and prescribe the method of appointing and electing and removing them.

SECTION 2-22. ACQUISITION AND SALE OF REAL PROPERTY.

   The City Council of the City of Guthrie shall have the power to purchase and acquire any real property, the acquisition of which it deems to be in the best interest of the City, and shall have the power to sell and dispose of any real property now or hereafter owned by said City, provided that the sale of any real property must be authorized by Ordinance passed by the City Council in the same manner as any other Ordinance. No such Ordinance approving the sale of any real property shall become effective for thirty (30) days after the passage and approval of the Ordinance; provided that no contrary provision for emergency passage of an Ordinance shall apply to this Article. Within the thirty (30) day period, the question of the sale of the real property involved may be put to a vote of the people upon the filing with the Clerk of the City of Guthrie of a petition calling for such vote. Said petition shall contain signatures of qualified voters residing within the territorial limits of the City of Guthrie of a number equal to at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the total electors voting at the last preceding City general election. Where the value of the real property sought to be sold exceeds the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00), the question of its sale shall first be submitted to the electors of said City at an election called for that purpose; and the question submitted thereat shall be substantially as follows:

   “Shall the City Council of the City of Guthrie sell (the property to be sold, accurately describing the same), for (the value to be received by the City of Guthrie, precisely stated).”

   If the majority of the votes cast in said election shall be in the affirmative, then the City Council shall have the power hereby conferred, but not otherwise.

   No real property may be disposed of by gift unless such gift is valid within the constraints of the Oklahoma State Constitution and unless such gift is submitted to a vote of the electors of the City in the same manner as provided for herein for property exceeding the value of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00). “Value,” as used herein, shall mean market value as defined by law.

SECTION 2-23. AUTHORITY TO CREATE DEPARTMENTS.

   The City Council may create, change and abolish offices, departments and agencies other than those established by this Charter, and assign additional functions and duties to offices, departments and agencies so established.