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<br />35 <br />4859-6924-4449\6 <br />Port Authorities: <br />(continued) <br /> City Council: <br />(continued) <br />10. Contract with outside parties for the <br />port. <br />11. Employ a director or additional <br />staff as it deems necessary. <br />12. Allow membership in <br />organizations to advance port activities <br />and provide funds for public relations <br />assistance. <br />These powers granted to a port are <br />connected with powers of industrial <br />development districts: <br />1. Develop and improve property <br />within an industrial district and make <br />them adequate for industrial use. <br />2. Exercise the power of a City <br />regarding mined underground <br />development. <br />3. Obtain rights and easements <br />connected with industrial districts. <br />4. Exercise the powers specified <br />under Minn. Stat. §§ 469.152 to <br />469.1651 to further improve the <br />purposes of sections 469.090 to 469.108 <br />(port authorities and industrial <br />development districts). <br />5. Enter into a partnership agreement <br />where the port serves as a limited partner <br />only. <br />6. Receive for one dollar, tax forfeited <br />land. <br />7. Use the power of eminent domain. <br />8. A port authority may create <br />industrial development districts within <br />the port district. <br />9. A port may obtain lands and <br />facilities required for industrial <br />development purposes. <br />10. Cooperate, and become an agent to <br />the federal government in carrying out <br />legislation concerned with operations in <br />harbor and industrial districts. <br />11. Operate and maintain various <br />parking systems and facilities to <br />improve economic development. <br /> For Municipal Industrial Development <br />Act: <br />City Council acts as the overall <br />Governing Body with direct and indirect <br />control over municipal activities. <br />For Rural Development Finance <br />Authority Act: <br />Inapplicable--County related. <br />For an HRA: City Council approves <br />appointees to the HRA Board of <br />Directors. <br />City Council has certain powers of <br />restrictions that may be enforced on the <br />HRA. Generally, projects and activities <br />must be approved by the City Council. <br />For an EDA: <br />The City Council may establish an EDA <br />by way of enabling resolution. It may <br />also determine the specific powers the <br />EDA is to have in that resolution. <br />City Council must have membership on <br />the EDA Board of Commissioners. It <br />may serve as the EDA Board of <br />Commissioners in entirety or choose a <br />portion of members from the business <br />community or general public. <br />City Council approves the Mayor’s <br />appointments to the EDA Board of <br />Directors. <br />