(A) The Town Council is hereby authorized to budget and appropriate funds from the General Fund or from other funds to pay the expenses incurred in promoting the betterment of the municipality.
(B) These expenses may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
(1) Membership dues in local, regional, state and national associations of a civic, educational or governmental nature, which have as their purpose the betterment and improvement of municipal operations;
(2) Direct expenses for travel, meals and lodging in conjunction with municipal business, meetings or organizations to which the municipality belongs;
(3) Expenses incurred in the promotion of tourism, residential development, economic or industrial development for the municipality, including meeting room rental, decorations, meals, travel and promotional booths;
(4) Commemorative plaques, certificates or objects such a commemorative keys;
(5) Annual employee dinner to promote the betterment and morale of town employees;
(6) Items to recognize employees such as a retirement gift, cake, dinner and the like and gifts such as flowers for an illness of an employee or death in family; and
(7) Other purposes which are deemed by the Town Council to directly relate to the promotion and betterment of the town.
(Ord. 2013-06, passed 5-13-2013)