Pursuant to the authority granted by W.S.A. ss. 66.436 and 66.4325,
there is hereby created and established for the City of Manawa a community
development authority to be hereinafter referred to as the "Community Development
Authority of the City of Manawa."
The Community Development Authority shall have all powers, duties and functions set out in W.S.A. ss. 66.40 and 66.431 for housing and redevelopment authorities and as to all housing projects initiated by the Community Development Authority and shall proceed under W.S.A. s. 66.40; and as to all projects relating to blight elimination, slum clearance, urban renewal and redevelopment programs, it will proceed under W.S.A. s. 66.405 to 66.425, 66.43, 66.431, 66.435 or 66.46 as may be determined appropriate by the Common Council on a project-by-project basis. As to all community development programs and activities undertaken by the Common Council under the Federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, the Community Development Authority shall proceed under all applicable laws and ordinances not inconsistent with the laws of the State of Wisconsin. The Community Development Authority shall have the authority to take title to the real and personal property in its own name, including but not limited to the right of eminent domain under Chapter
32 of the Wisconsin Statutes, or any other law relating to eminent domain for redevelopment authorities. The Chairperson, or the Vice-Chairperson in the absence of the Chairperson, and the Executive Director, if any, shall, unless otherwise provided, have the authority to execute all documents for and on behalf of the Community Development Authority. The Community Development Authority shall have the authority to employ such personnel as the Commission may determine necessary to carry out and accomplish the duties and responsibilities hereof, including, without limitation, to retain the services of the City Engineer, City Attorney and city financial consultant. Except as expressly reserved or otherwise provided herein, the Community Development Authority is hereby granted all powers permitted by law to be exercised by community development authorities.
All housing authorities and redevelopment authorities which may have
been previously established by the city, pursuant to W.S.A. ss. 66.40 and
66.431, shall terminate upon the effective date of the creation of the Community
Development Authority, and any programs or projects which have been begun
by the housing authority or the redevelopment authority shall be transferred
to and completed by the Community Development Authority. All contracts entered
into between the federal government and the housing or redevelopment authority,
or between such authorities and other parties, shall be assumed and discharged
by the Community Development Authority. All contracts entered into between
the federal government and the housing or redevelopment authority, or between
such authorities and other parties, shall be assumed and discharged by the
Community Development Authority, except for the termination of operations
by housing and redevelopment authorities as provided in W.S.A. s. 66.4325.
Contracts between the Federal Government and the housing authority or the
redevelopment authority shall be binding upon the Community Development Authority
in such a manner as though originally entered into by the community Development
Authority. In the event that the housing authority shall remain in operation
after the creation of the Community Development Authority pursuant to the
provisions of W.S.A. s. 66.4325(5)(e), the housing authority shall continue
to exist, under the jurisdiction of the Community Development Authority, as
a subcommittee thereof, for the purposes of running, operating and carrying
on such programs, facilities and operations, and under such authorities as
the enabling ordinance for the housing authority shall provide, including
but not limited to appointment and confirmation of its committee members by
the Mayor and the Common Council, until such time as the outstanding bonds
or other securities, which require its continued operation, continue to exist.
Upon the creation of the Community Development Authority, the Community
Development Authority is doomed and shall be an independent, distinct public
body and a body corporate and politic and shall have its own seal. Upon the
establishment of the Community Development Authority, the City of Manawa shall
thereafter be precluded from exercising any powers provided in W.S.A. s. 66.43(4),
and the Community Development Authority shall have exclusive power to carry
on redevelopment projects within the city; except that nothing contained herein
shall preclude the city from applying for, accepting or contracting for Federal
grants, advances or loans where the conditions of said grants, advances or
loans require participation by the city.
Except for such redevelopment projects as may be delegated to the Community
Development Authority by the Common Council, the Community Development Authority
shall not commence or undertake any redevelopment projects until there has
been created and approved a comprehensive plan of redevelopment as provided
in W.S.A. s. 66.31(6).