The Sioux City art center board of trustees shall have and exercise the following powers:

    1. To make and enforce rules and regulations for the control, operation, supervision and maintenance of the art center;

    2. To buy, sell, lease or exchange any property of the art center consistent with the goals and functions of the art center 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 art center 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 art center'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 art center;

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

    7. To select and make purchases of pictures, portraits, paintings, statuary and relics, and other objects of art, in the original and in replicas or copies; to acquire books, periodicals, papers and journals on the subject of art, archival supplies, displays, mounting and framing supplies, special art museum lighting equipment and supplies and artists' material and supplies, for the art center;

    8. To receive, hold and dispose of all gifts, donations, devises, and bequests that may be made to the city for the purpose of establishing, increasing, or improving such art center; 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 art center revenues and funds allotted for the art center in accordance with the budget as finally approved by the city council;

    10. To enter into agreements for the special use and care of the art center with any art institute or art school or other organization whose purpose is the teaching of art or the promotion and development  of public interest in art, subject to the conditions and requirements set forth in subsection 2. above;

    11. To determine rates and conditions for services rendered to users of the Sioux City art center;

    12. To regulate and control advertising in buildings and on premises of the Sioux City art center and to advertise the services offered by the art center.  (Ord. 84/T-2512; S-43676, 1982; S-28891, 1975)