04-14-12 Special Meeting of La Porte City Council (council retreat)

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PARTI-CHARTER CHARTER COMPARATIVE TABLE ordinance to enforce this provision. d. Establish and appoint the members of the planning commission. e. Adopt plats. Adopt and modify the official map of the city. g. Adopt, modify and carry out plans proposed by the planning commission for the clearance of slum districts and rehabilitation of blighted areas. h. Adopt, modify and carry out plans proposed by the planning commission for the replanning, improvement and redevelopment of neighborhoods and for the replanning, reconstruction or redevelopment of any area or district which may have been destroyed in whole or in part by disaster. i. Provide for the establishment and designation of fire limits and to prescribe the kind and character of buildings or structures or improvements to be erected therein, and to provide for the erection of fireproof buildings within certain limits, and to provide for the condemnation of dangerous structures or buildings or dilapidated buildings calculated to increase the fire hazard and the manner of their removal or destruction. j. Approve assessment rolls as returned to it by the board of equalization and adopt same as the assessment rolls to be used for the collection of taxes for the current year. k. Control and distribute all contingent appropriations. Expenditures from a contingent appropriation shall require prior approval of council. A contingent appropriation shall be disbursed only by transfer to a departmental appropriation, the spending of which shall be charged to the department or activity for which the appropriation is made. 2.10. -Additional discretionary powers. In addition to the above powers and without limitation of such, city council shall have the power to, and may at its discretion, do any or all of the following: a. Public library. Council shall have the authority to establish and maintain a free public library within the city and to cooperate with any person, firm, association or corporation under such terms as council may prescribe for the establishment of such free public library. For budget purposes, the library shall be considered as a department of the city and the appropriations therefor shall comply with all the budgetary requirements as outlined in this Charter and as may be prescribed from time to time by council. b. Hospital. 1. Operation. The city shall have the authority to acquire, establish and own, either by purchase, donations, bequest or otherwise, all property that may be useful or necessary for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a municipal hospital. Upon establishment of such hospital, council shall create a hospital board with membership and compensation deemed appropriate by council, which shall operate the hospital subject only to such direction and supervision as shall be contained in any ordinance or ordinances enacted by council. 2. Finances. All funds belonging to said hospital, whether classed as funds received in La Porte, Texas, Code of Ordinances Page 9 of 32