Section 261.1.4. Authority structure.

       1.4(1) General. The authority’s organizational structure consists of the board, the director, and such divisions as the director may from time to time create.

       1.4(2) Director. The authority is administered by a director who is appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate, and who serves for a four-year term beginning and ending as provided in Iowa Code section 69.19. An appointment by the governor to fill a vacancy in the office of the director is for the balance of the unexpired four-year term. The director is the chief administrative officer of the authority and in that capacity oversees the administration of the authority’s programs and services, ensuring their compliance with applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations. The responsibilities of the director are as described in Iowa Code section 15.106C and include preparing a budget subject to board approval, establishing an internal administrative structure and employing personnel, reviewing and submitting legislative proposals to the board, recommending rules to the board and ensuring their progression through the rule-making process, reporting to the board on grants and contracts awarded by the authority, and other actions reasonably necessary to administer and direct the programs of the authority.

       1.4(3) Chief designee. The director may designate an employee to administer the authority in the director’s absence. Such employee may bear the title of deputy director, chief operating officer, chief of staff, or other similar title as long as the director has executed an instrument clearly delegating the director’s authority to that employee.

       1.4(4) Divisions. The director may from time to time reorganize the authority into administrative divisions in order to most efficiently and effectively carry out the authority’s responsibilities. This reorganization may include creating new divisions, eliminating existing divisions, or combining divisions as the director deems necessary. Such divisions may include, but are not limited to, the following:

        a.           Administration division;

        b.           Business development division;

        c.           Energy division;

        d.           Community development division; and

        e.           Small business division.

       1.4(5) Attachment for administrative purposes; board support. The staff and employees of the authority provide office space and support to the city development board pursuant to Iowa Code sections 368.9 and 15.108(3)“a”(2). The authority provides administrative support to the vision Iowa board pursuant to Iowa Code section 15F.104.

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