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CHAPTER 17 1. Bureau of information and publicity Minn. stet. , 469.1 s6. Any statutory city may establish and maintain a bureau of information and publicity. The purpose of the bureau is to furnish tourist information; provide outdoor advertising; and prepare, publish, and circulate information about the recreational facilities, businesses, and industrial conditions of the community. This law does not authorize a special tax levy. Because the statutes give every city the authority to appropriate money for advertising, this would seem to include authority to maintain a bureau of information and publicity. It is doubtful the publicity statute provides any additional authority for statutory cities. Sverkerson v. City of Almost all the home rule charters cities have adopted since 1930 or 1940 Minneapolis, 204 Minn. 338, 2s3 contain omnibus is of ower authorizin the ci without more a llclt N.W.2d I55 (1939). gran P g ty~ xp grants of authority, to do anything appropriate for a city that the Legislature might have authorized. It seems cleaz from the Minnesota cases, that such grants of power authorize expenditures for advertising. AG. Op. 59-A-22 (Dec. 8, 1965). The attorney general has ruled that under such a charter provision, the city may promote business and industrial development, and hire a staff for that purpose. It seems likely a charter city, without an omnibus grant but with a typical general welfare clause, has authority to make expenditures for • advertising the city, as long as the particular expenditures aze for a public purpose. J. City district heating system Minn. Stat. § 412.321, s~bd. t; ~y city may acquire, construct, own, and operate a city district heating Minn. Stat. §465.74 system, and issue and sell general obligation bonds to finance any city expenditures related to the acquisition or operation of a district heating ' system. Cities may issue revenue bonds payable solely from all or portions of revenues the city gets from a district heating system. The city itself, by ordinance, may authorize a redevelopment agency to exercise any and all of the city's powers to issue these revenue bonds. K. Contributions to economic development organizations Minn. sect. § 469.191. Cities may appropriate up to $50,000 annually out of the general revenue fund to any incorporated development society or organization of the state for promoting, advertising, improving, or developing the economic and agricultural resources of the city. • 17-18 HANDBOOK FOR MINNESOTA CITIES 3a