(A) The Board of Directors shall have the following duties and responsibilities:
(1) To operate, maintain and manage the museum and museum facility and to make and enter into contracts for the use, operation and management of, and to expend funds therefor, and to provide rules and regulations for the operation, management and use of the museum facility;
(2) To collect and preserve objects of scientific and artistic value, representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and work of man, geological history, natural resources and the manufacturing and fine arts; to interpret for and educate the public concerning the foregoing;
(3) To determine, in its judgment, if necessary, charges for admission and collect reasonable fees from the public for the privilege of admission into the museum;
(4) To employ or enter into contracts for the employment of any person, firm or corporation, and for professional services necessary or desirable for the accomplishment of the objects of the museum facility;
(5) To maintain the museum for the benefit of the inhabitants of the area, and the public generally;
(6) To adopt rules and regulations concerning the management and operation of the museum facility, and the hours and days that the museum shall be open to the public; and
(7) To elect annually the officers of the Board of Directors, including a Secretary and Treasurer, who need not be members of the Board.
(B) The Board of Directors shall annually on or before April 30 in each year hereafter submit to the City Council a budget, which budget shall be in the usual and customary form of budgets, and City Council shall reserve the right to approve or accept the budget, and such items as the City Council approves, or may add thereto, to be incorporated into the annual appropriation ordinance of the city.
(C) The Board of Directors is further empowered and authorized to receive in trust from any person, firm or corporation, gifts of money, artifacts, objects of historical significance, other art objects, loans of artifacts, art objects or items for display in the museum, and shall have full power and authority to regulate the display of the artifacts or objects of historical or cultural value with the persons so loaning or donating such items to the museum.
(D) The Board of Directors is further authorized and empowered to receive in trust, gifts, devises or bequests of money or property, either real, personal or mixed, as may be donated to the museum. That the trust fund and all accumulations thereto now held by the city, received by it from the administrators of the estate of Anna Wehrheim Brown, shall be assigned and transferred to the Board of Museum Directors, to hold the principal of the trust fund, as devised to the city in trust, and to expend the income only, including the accumulated income, on the maintenance of the museum as directed by the third clause of the last will and testament of Anna Wehrheim Brown.
(E) The Board of Directors is further authorized or required to perform the following duties and responsibilities:
(1) To expend other funds as may be from time to time obtained by gift or otherwise by the Board of Directors shall be expended by it in accordance with the provisions of the gift so made, if the gift is so limited; and
(2) To annually submit to the City Council a report of gifts or donations made to it and all other income received by it and for what purposes expended, which the report shall be submitted along with its budget as herein provided.
(F) The Board of Directors shall, as soon as possible after their organization, adopt by-laws in keeping with its duties and responsibilities as a Board of Directors of the Museum, and as trustees of the funds to be placed under their control. The by-laws shall be submitted to the City Council for its approval.
(G) The first meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held within 30 days after its appointment, upon the call of the Chairperson, the time and place to be set by the Chairperson and included in the call of the first meeting of the Board.
(1994 Code, § 32.053)