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RELEVANT LINKS: <br />League of Minnesota Cities Handbook for Minnesota Cities 6/8/2022 <br />Elected Officials and Council Structure and Role Chapter 6 | Page 31 <br /> The council may, however, create boards or commissions to advise the <br />council with respect to any municipal function or activity, or to investigate <br />any subject of interest to the city. <br /> The statutes specifically authorize various independent boards and <br />commissions in other statutory cities. <br /> The following is a list of the most common. <br /> 1. Airport board <br />Minn. Stat. § 360.038, subd. <br />2. The council may establish, by ordinance or resolution, an airport board. <br />The board shall be vested with authority for construction, enlargement, <br />improvement, maintenance, equipment, operation, and regulation of the <br />airport. <br /> 2. Civil service board and commission <br />See Minn. Stat. chapters 44, <br />419, and 420. Civil service commissions can take several different forms depending on <br />the state statute under which the council establishes them. <br /> 3. Hospital board <br />Minn. Stat. § 412.221, subd. <br />16. <br /> <br />The council has the power to provide hospitals and, by ordinance, to <br />establish a hospital board. Hospital boards may exercise any hospital- <br />management powers conferred by the council. The council may abolish the <br />board by a vote of all five members of the council. The board shall consist <br />of five members appointed by the mayor with council approval for <br />overlapping five-year terms. The council may remove members for cause. <br /> 4. Housing and redevelopment authority <br />Minn. Stat. § 469.003, subds. <br />1, 2. A housing and redevelopment authority (HRA) has been created in each <br />city by the Legislature. The HRA may not transact any business or <br />exercise any powers until the city council, by resolution, finds that the <br />city: has substandard, slum, or blighted areas that cannot be redeveloped <br />without government assistance; or, has a shortage of decent, safe, and <br />sanitary low-income dwellings. The council may consider such a <br />resolution only after holding a public hearing and meeting publication <br />requirements. <br />Minn. Stat. § 469.003, subds. <br />5, 6. An HRA consists of up to seven members who may be officers and <br />employees of the city. The mayor appoints members with the approval of <br />the council for overlapping five-year terms. In many cities, council <br />members appoint themselves to serve on the HRA; so the council becomes <br />the HRA. <br />34