[Code 1975, § 2-174; Code 1992, § 2-256; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
The City Council hereby declares that insanitary and unsafe inhabited dwelling accommodations exist in the City and that there is a shortage of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations in the City available to persons, including veterans of the United States Armed Forces, who lack the amount of income necessary to enable them, without financial assistance, to live in decent, safe and sanitary dwellings without overcrowding; and that it is for and in the public interest that the Housing Commission, created pursuant to Public Act No. 18 of 1933, extra session, as amended (MCL 125.651 et seq.), be continued. Such Commission is hereby continued in and for the City.
[Code 1975, § 2-175; Code 1992, § 2-257; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
The Housing Commission shall consist of five members to be appointed by the City Manager. Each member of the Housing Commission shall be, at the time of his or her appointment, and shall remain during his or her term of office a bona fide resident of the City. One member of the Commission shall be a tenant of public or subsidized housing.
[Code 1975, § 2-176; Code 1992, § 2-258; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
Members of the Housing Commission shall be appointed for staggered terms of five years. Members of the Housing Commission may be removed from office by the City Council upon the recommendation of the City Manager.
[Code 1975, § 2-177; Code 1992, § 2-259; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
Members of the Housing Commission shall serve without compensation, but they shall be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties.
[Code 1975, § 2-178; Code 1992, § 2-260; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
The Housing Commission shall have all the powers and duties vested in such commissions by Public Act No. 18 of 1933, extra session, as amended (MCL 125.651 et seq.) and by any laws enacted which are or may be supplemental thereto, it being the intention of this section to vest in the Housing Commission all powers and duties permitted by law. The Housing Commission is empowered to act as a borrower for purposes of issuing bonds or notes under Public Act No. 18 of 1933, extra session, as heretofore or hereafter amended.
[Code 1975, § 2-179; Code 1992, § 2-261; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
The Housing Commission shall have the power to appoint and remove a Public Housing Director who shall have such powers and duties as provided by Public Act No. 18 of 1933, extra session, as amended, and as given to such Public Housing Director by the Housing Commission as it shall deem necessary for the proper exercise of its powers, functions and duties, and may authorize the appointment of such other employees as it shall deem necessary for the proper exercise of its powers, functions and duties. The Housing Commission shall fix the compensation of the Public Housing Director and other employees of the Housing Commission as necessary. Such compensation shall be paid by the Housing Commission.
[Code 1975, § 2-180; Code 1992, § 2-262; 10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
(a) 
The Public Housing Director shall be the chief administrative officer of the Housing Commission and shall supervise the administrative affairs of the Housing Commission and shall carry out the policies formulated by the Housing Commission.
(b) 
The Housing Director shall have the power to appoint and remove such other administrative officers and employees of the Housing Commission as may be deemed necessary for the proper exercise of its powers, functions and duties.
(c) 
The Public Housing Director shall be responsible for all matters relating to the construction, management, maintenance, acquisition and operation of all physical real and personal properties of the Housing Commission, as well as of the City, held or owned by it in any capacity in connection with the purposes and objectives of this division and all laws to which this division may relate. The Public Housing Director shall be responsible for any additional duties which are reasonably related to the purposes and objectives of this division and which may be required by the Housing Commission. The Public Housing Director shall be under the direction of the Housing Commission and shall report and be directly responsible to them.
[10-22-2007 by Ord. No. 1281]
All deeds, mortgages, contracts, leases, purchases, or other agreements regarding real property, including agreements to acquire or dispose of real property, shall be approved and executed in the name of the Housing Commission.