(a) The person holding the office of Mayor on the effective date of this Charter is hereby designated to serve as the Mayor under this Charter with all the powers, duties and functions as provided by this Charter until the person who is elected as the Mayor at the November 1979 election takes office on January 1, 1980. The person holding the office of Mayor on the effective date of this Charter shall be exempt from Section 5.02(b) of this Charter requiring the Mayor to be a full-time official of the City. The initial salary of the Mayor for the four year term commencing January 1, 1980, shall be established by the Council within forty-five days after the effective date of this Charter.
(b) The persons who hold the offices of President of Council, member of Council, and Director of Law under the general statutory plan of government for the City on the date the Charter becomes effective are hereby designated to hold the offices of President of Council, member of Council, and City Attorney, respectively, until their successor elected at the November 1979 election take office on January 1, 1980; and such persons shall have all the powers, duties and functions conferred on their respective offices under this Charter.
(c) The persons who are elected to the offices of Mayor, President of Council, member of Council, and City Attorney at the November 1979 election shall have all the powers, duties and functions conferred by this Charter for their respective offices from and after January 1, 1980.
(d) The offices of Mayor, President of Council, member of Council, and Director of Law as such offices exist under the general statutory plan of government for the City shall be abolished on the effective date of this Charter.
(e) The abolition of the office of City Treasurer shall be governed by Section 6.03 of this Charter.
(f) On and after January 15, 1980, the citizen members of the Planning and Zoning Commission (not including the Mayor, Director of Public Service and the member whose term expires in January 1980), or their successors, under the general statutory plan of government for the City are hereby designated to serve as members of the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals created by this Charter, for the remainder of their terms. The Mayor shall appoint the remaining two citizen members to the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals, one for a term of three years and one for a term of one year. Such persons shall have all powers, duties and functions as members of the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals as provided In or under this Charter.
(g) The four citizen members of the Planning Commission under this Charter shall be appointed as provided in Section 7.01 of this Charter, with such appointments to be made after January 1, 1980, and prior to January 15, 1980. Until January 15, 1980. Until January 15, 1980, the persons who are members of the Planning and Zoning Commission under the general statutory plan of government for the City shall perform the powers, duties and functions of the Planning Commission and Board of Zoning and Building Appeals created by this Charter. The Planning and Zoning Commission under the general statutory plan of government for the City shall be abolished on January 15, 1980.
(h) The first Director of Finance under this Charter shall not be appointed until January 15, 1980. Until such time as the first Director of Finance is appointed pursuant to this section, the City Attorney shall serve on the Treasury Investment Board with all the powers, duties and functions on that Board assigned to the Director of Finance by Section 7.06 of this Charter.
(i) Any other board or commission existing under the general statutory plan of government for the City shall, unless otherwise provided in this Charter, continue in existence with its existing powers, duties and functions under the laws of Ohio and/or the ordinances and resolutions of the City until it shall be changed or abolished pursuant to this Charter.
(j) Except as otherwise provided by this Charter, all persons holding office at the time this Charter takes effect shall continue in office and in the performance of their duties until other provisions have been made in accordance with this Charter for the performance or discontinuance of the duties of the office. When that provision shall have been made, the term of any officer shall expire and the office shall be abolished. The powers conferred and the duties imposed upon any officer, body, commission, board, department or division of the City under the laws of Ohio or under any Municipal ordinance, resolution or contract in force at the time this Charter takes effect, if the office, body, commission, board, department or division is abolished by this Charter, shall be thereafter exercised and discharged by those upon whom are imposed corresponding functions, powers and duties by this Charter or by any ordinance or resolution of Council thereafter enacted.