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 inter-group relations;
(B) To conduct or arrange for research projects and studies into, and publish 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 inter-group tensions, and to use its best efforts to secure compliance with this recommendations;
(F) To cooperate with inter-group 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 in effectuating the purposes of this subchapter;
(H) To enlist the support of civic, labor, religious, professional, 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 legislative body and modes of executive action to the Mayor that will effectuate the purpose of this subchapter;
(K) To submit an annual report of its activities of the progress and problems in inter-group relations in the community to the Mayor and the City Commission; and
(L) To adopt, promulgate, amend and rescind rules and regulations to effectuate the policies and provisions of this subchapter. Said rules and regulations are subject to the approval of the City Board of Commissioners.
(Ord. 84-13, passed 6-19-84)