§ 74-74. Staffing and intergovernmental agreements.  


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  • A land bank agency may employ a secretary, an executive director, its own counsel and legal staff, and such technical experts, and such other agents and employees, permanent or temporary, as it may require, and may determine the qualifications and fix the compensation and benefits of such persons. The staff of the land bank agency shall be persons who have demonstrated special interest, experience or education in urban planning, community development, real estate, law, finance or related areas; provided, however, clerical, technical or other support staff need not have such demonstrated interest, experience or education. The board may delegate to officers and employees the authority to enter into and execute agreements, instruments of conveyance and all others related documents pertaining to the conveyance of property by the land bank agency. A land bank agency may also enter into contracts and agreements with political subdivisions for staffing services to be provided to the land bank agency by political subdivisions or agencies or departments thereof, or for a land bank agency to provide such staffing services to political subdivisions or agencies or departments thereof. Such an agreement may include, but are not limited to, contracts for the joint exercise of powers, contracts for ownership, management, development, and disposition of real property. A land bank agency may receive funding through grants and loans from political subdivisions, from the state, from the federal government, and from other public and private sources.

( Ord. No. 120779, § 1, 9-20-12 )