(A) The Town Council is authorized to budget and to appropriate funds from the General Fund or from other funds to provide membership for the town and for the elected and appointed officials and members of the town's boards, departments or agencies in local, regional, state and national associations of a civic, educational or governmental nature, which have as their purpose the betterment and improvement of town government operations.
(B) The Town Council is further authorized to budget and to appropriate funds to pay the expenses of duly authorized representatives to attend the meetings and functions of organizations to which the town belongs.
(1989 Code, § 29.01)