(A) Authority to inform public. The Historic Preservation Commission shall have the power to promote public interest in and an understanding of its recommendations, and to that end it may publish and distribute copies of its recommendations and may employ other means of publicity and education as it may determine.
(B) Appropriations; authority for members, employees to attend historic preservation conferences; payment of expenses.
(1) The Town Council may appropriate to the Historic Preservation Commission funds in any amount that it determines to be necessary for the expenses of the operation of the Commission, and may make available any additional amounts necessary for the acquisition, restoration, preservation, operation and management of historic buildings, structures, sites, areas or objects designated as historic landmarks or within designated historic districts, or of land on which buildings or structures are located, or to which they may be removed.
(2) Members of the Historic Preservation Commission, when duly authorized by the Commission, may attend historic preservation conferences or hearings upon pending historic legislation, and the Commission may, by formal and affirmative vote pay, within the Commission’s budget, reasonable traveling expenses incident to attendance.
(Ord. passed 3-27-1998)