Does the Health Care District have the right to sell its offices and other properties?

operations. First, income from the properties helps to fund the District, making its operations possible. Second, and more important, ownership of the properties is , in effect, the function of the District. The purpose of a local health care district is to "fulfill the function of protecting the public health and welfare by furnishing hospital services in areas where hospital facilities are for some reason inadequate." (Talley v. Northern San Diego Hosp. Dist. (1953) 41 Cal.2d 33, 40, 257 P.2d 22, overruled on other grounds, Muskopf v. Corning Hospital Dist. (1961) 55 Cal.2d 211, 213, 11 Cal.Rptr. 89, 359 P.2d 457.) Selling the offices would put the District out of business.