(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 as 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;
(7) Remembrance memorabilia for employees that have passed away;
(8) Expenses incurred in the promotion of the town such as town shirts, cups, pens, and the like; and
(9) Other purposes which are deemed by the Town Council to directly relate to the promotion and betterment of the town.
(Ord. 2022-02, passed 4-12-2022; Ord. 2023-06, passed 10-14-2023)