It shall be the duty of the commissioner of business and industrial development to
investigate and study such measures as may be taken to stimulate business and industrial
activity within the city, including the location and expansion of business and industrial
plants and other establishments; to formulate and adopt plans for the coordinated
development, conservation and use of the city's resources in ways that will promote
and advance the economic welfare of its citizens; to engage in promotional activities
by the use of advertising, educational media and public relations, and by the solicitation
of industrial and commercial enterprises to encourage the expansion and location of
such enterprises within the corporate limits of the city; to maintain contact and
personal relations with business, civic and professional groups and associations,
including membership and attendance at their meetings here and elsewhere, for the
purpose of making the activities of the commission widely and favorably known and
thereby to obtain early information as to contemplated expansion or relocation of
business or industrial concerns likely to be prospects for location or expansion in
the city; to make available to private groups, organizations, associations and agencies
such facts, data and information as may be useful and desirable in their efforts to
encourage the location of industries and commercial enterprises within the city; to
encourage the industrial development of the city by the dissemination of information
within and without the city; to do such other and further related acts as shall, in
the judgment of the commission, be necessary and proper to carry out the purposes
for which the commission is created; to encourage the organization of advisory boards
or committee among interested groups of citizens and, insofar as practicable, to cooperate
with such boards or committees to secure active aid thereof in the accomplishment
of the aims and fulfillment of the duties of the commission; to report to the mayor
and city council the findings and results of studies, along with recommendations;
and to make such reports and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the
city council.
(Admin. Code 1967, § A6.27)
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