(A) The Town Council is hereby authorized to budget and appropriate funds from the general fund 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, etc. 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.
(C) Expenses for employee meals, gifts, awards and other similar expenses shall be in accordance with such expenses at a rate allowable by the State of Indiana or within a reasonable relation thereto. Any expenses deemed excessive by the Town Council shall not be paid under this section.
(D) No expenses shall be paid until there is an itemized detailed claim which shall include details for mileage and travel expenses including odometer miles and actual receipts for the expenses incurred.
(Ord. 2016-03, passed 3-14-2016)