In performing its functions, the Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To accept gifts or bequests, grants or other payments, public or private, to help finance its activities;
(B) To recommend methods for elimination of discrimination and intergroup tensions and to use its best efforts to secure compliance with its recommendations;
(C) To cooperate with other intergroup relations agencies, both public and private, on the local, state and national level;
(D) To cooperate with the various departments, agencies and boards of the city and of the commonwealth in effectuating the purposes of this subchapter;
(E) 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;
(F) To organize community committees and councils that will work toward the goals of this subchapter;
(G) To recommend legislation to the city legislative body and modes of executive action to the mayor that will effectuate the purposes of this subchapter;
(H) To submit an annual report of its activities and of the progress and problems in intergroup relations in the community to the Mayor and the city legislative body; and
(I) To adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind rules and regulations to effectuate the policies and provisions of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 2.24.050) (Ord. passed 3-9-1976)