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1. To construct, maintain and operate such facilities <br />and equipment as may be necessary or desirable to provide <br />additional governmental services and/or facilities, including <br />but not limited to, water supply, sewerage, ~arbage removal <br />and disposal, heat, light, public transportation service, <br />fire fighting equipment ~nd fire protection, power and gas <br />systems, police protection, parking facilities, promotion of <br />the business district, and sidewalks and/or pedestrian malls <br />for the use and benefit of the public in such service district. <br /> <br /> 2. To acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease or <br />otherwise and to maintain and operate any such facilities and <br />equipment as may be necessary and desirable to provide such <br />additional governmental services'in suck district, and to <br />acquire by gift, condemnation, purchase, lease or otherwise, <br />rights, title, interest or easements therefor in and to <br />real estate in such service district. <br /> <br /> 3. To contract with any person, firm, corporation or <br />political subdivision to provide such additional governmental <br />services or facilities in such district and to construct, <br />establish, maintain and operate any such facilities and <br />equipment as may be necessary and desirable in connection <br />therewitk. <br /> <br /> 4. To require the owners or tenants of any property <br />in the district to connect with any such system or systems, <br />and to contract with the owners or tenants for such connections. <br />The owners or tenants shall have the right of appeal to the <br />Circuit Court of the City of Por~smouth~ or %he judge thereof <br />in vacation, in regards to connection to such services within <br />ten (10) days from notice by the City to so connect. <br /> <br /> 5. To leaf and collect an annual tax upon any property <br />in such service district subject to local taxation to pay, <br />either in whole or in part, the expenses and charges for <br />providing such 'additional gove~nmentaI services or facilities <br />in such district and for constructing, maintaining and operating <br />such facilities and equipment as may be necessary and desirable <br />in connection therewith, provided that the proceeds from such <br />annual tax shall be so segregated as to enable the same to <br />he expended in the district from 'which collected. <br /> <br /> 6. To authorize the'City Manager~.to employ and fix the <br />compensation of any technical, clerical, or other personnel <br />which may be necessary or desirable from time to time to <br />provide such additional.governmental services in such district <br />or for the construction, operation or maintenance of any such <br />facilities and equipment as may be necessary or desirable in <br />connection therewith. <br /> <br /> <br />