303.1A Director’s duties.

1. The duties of the director shall include but are not limited to the following:

a. Adopt rules that are necessary for the effective administration of the department.

b. Direct and administer the programs and services of the department.

c. Prepare the departmental budget request by September 1 of each year on the forms furnished, and including the information required by the department of management.

d. Accept, receive, and administer grants or other funds or gifts from public or private agencies including the federal government for the various divisions and the department.

e. Appoint and approve the technical, professional, secretarial, and clerical staff necessary to accomplish the purposes of the department subject to chapter 8A, subchapter IV.

f. Administer the Iowa cultural trust as provided in chapter 303A and do all of the following:

(1) Develop and adopt by rule criteria for the issuance of trust fund credits by measuring the efforts of qualified organizations, as defined in section 303A.3, to increase their endowment or other resources for the promotion of the arts, history, or the sciences and humanities in Iowa. If the director determines that the organizations have increased the amount of their endowment and other resources, the director shall certify the amount of increase in the form of trust fund credits to the treasurer, who shall deposit in the Iowa cultural trust fund, from moneys received for purposes of the trust fund as provided in section 303A.4, subsection 2, an amount equal to the trust fund credits. If the amount of the trust fund credits issued by the director exceeds the amount of moneys available to be deposited in the trust fund as provided in section 303A.4, subsection 2, the outstanding trust fund credits shall not expire but shall be available to draw down additional moneys which become available to be deposited in the trust fund as provided in section 303A.4, subsection 2.

(2) Develop and implement, in accordance with chapter 303A, a grant application process for grants issued to qualified organizations as defined in section 303A.3.

(3) Develop and adopt by rule criteria for the approval of Iowa cultural trust grants. The criteria shall include but shall not be limited to the future stability and sustainability of a qualified organization.

(4) Compile, in consultation with the Iowa arts council and the state historical society of Iowa, a list of grant applications recommended for funding in accordance with the amount available for distribution as provided in section 303A.6, subsection 3. The list of recommended grant applications shall be submitted to the Iowa cultural trust board of trustees for approval.

(5) Monitor the allocation and use of grant moneys by qualified organizations to determine whether moneys are used in accordance with the provisions of this paragraph “f” and chapter 303A. The director shall annually submit the director’s findings and recommendations in a report to the Iowa cultural trust board of trustees prior to final board action in approving grants for the next succeeding fiscal year.

2. The director may appoint a member of the staff to be acting director who shall have the powers delegated by the director in the director’s absence. The director may delegate the powers and duties of that office to the administrators.

86 Acts, ch 1245, §1302; 87 Acts, ch 211, §4; 93 Acts, ch 48, §49; 2002 Acts, ch 1115, §1; 2003 Acts, ch 145, §235; 2010 Acts, ch 1061, §104

Referred to in §303A.4, 303A.6