Section 1049.104 - Program authorization(a) The department is hereby authorized to aid urban units in: (1) Establishing community planning, development and research programs.(2) Carrying out demonstration projects defined to develop solutions to the physical, human, environmental and administrative problems faced by the urban unit.(3) Instituting personnel exchange and training programs.(4) Developing techniques for the successful accomplishment of this act and in seeking greater citizen involvement in solving the problems of the urban unit.(5) Establishing human resource development programs.(6) Creating more effective public administration and municipal management.(7) Applying other available resources or methods to carry out the intent of this act.(b) The department is hereby authorized to contract with, cooperate with, enter into agreements with, and receive financial assistance from any agency of the Federal Government or of the Commonwealth and any political subdivision, authority, corporation, organization, association, institution, or person and to provide grants to any political subdivision, authority, corporation, or organization in furtherance of the execution of the powers contained herein.(c) The secretary shall employ such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this act and shall have the power to convene or authorize his representatives to convene official representatives of other Commonwealth departments or agencies to enable the department to exercise the power and perform the duties specified by Article XXV-C of "The Administrative Code of 1929," the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177), as added by the act of February 1, 1966 (P.L. 1849); and as specified by the act of May 20, 1949 (P.L. 1608), known as the "State Planning Code," as amended by the act of February 2, 1966 (P.L. 1899). (d) In carrying out the authorization contained in this section the department shall make maximum feasible use of available local, State, Federal and private programs and resources, utilizing funds under this act only when necessary in engineering, executing, and complementing coordinated solutions to community problems of interdependent causation.1970, March 21, P.L. 195, No. 77, § 4.