The Sioux City Public Museum Board of Trustees shall have and exercise the following powers:

    1. To make and enforce policy and regulations for the control, operation, supervision and maintenance of the public museum;

    2. To buy, sell, lease or exchange any property of the public museum consistent with the goals and functions of the public museum under such terms and conditions as the board shall determine, providing that no lease for a period in excess of one year shall be valid unless approved by the city council;

    3. To employ such persons as shall be necessary to operate and maintain the museum subject to the following limitations:

        a. Appointment of such persons shall be consistent with the city's position classification and personnel manuals and limited to positions authorized in the budget as finally approved by the city council.

        b. All wages and benefits of the museum's employees shall be established by the city council except that the board shall fix the compensation of the director within the compensation range established by the city council for that position;

    4. To apply for and accept grants or subsidies from any other unit of government;

    5. To make such recommendations concerning the procurement of insurance as is felt necessary for the protection of the museum;

    6. To promote or co-promote activities and events held at the museum;

    7. To select and make purchases of artifacts or other objects of historical or scientific significance, in the original and in replicas or copies; to acquire books, periodicals, papers and journals on the subject of historical or scientific interest for the museum;

    8. To receive, reject, hold and/or dispose of all gifts, donations, devises, and bequests that may be made to the city for the purpose of establishing, increasing or improving such museum, but when any such gift, donation, devise or bequest is conditioned upon any act of the city, the city council must first determine whether such condition can or shall be complied with;

    9. To have exclusive control of the expenditures of the museum revenues and funds allotted for the museum in accordance with the budget as finally approved by the city council;

    10. To determine rates and conditions for services rendered to users of the Sioux City Public Museum;

  11. To regulate and control advertising in buildings and on premises of the Sioux City Public Museum and to advertise the services offered by the museum.  (Ord. 97/U-5636; 84/T-2512; S-43675, 1982)