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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1986-OR-47ORDINANCE CREA'~ING COMMON COUNCIL'S PROMOTION FUND FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE WHEREAS, the Common Council believes it is in the best interest oi the City of jeffersonville to have a fund to pay the expenses of, or to reimburse city officials for expenses incurred in promoting the best interest of the City. Such expenses may include, but not neces- sarily be limited to rental of meeting places, meals, decorations, memcrabilia, awards, expense incurred in interviewing job applican~B, expenses incurred mn promoting industrial, commercial, and resJden- tial development, expenses other units of government, governmental nature deemed interest of the City. NOWt THEREFORE, BE incurred in developing relat~cns with and any other expenses of a civic or by the Common Council to be in the best IT ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of Jeffersonville, that there shall be created a Common Council Promotion Fund, which fund shall be funded through the City's Annual Budget. its This Ordinance shall be in passage and approval. Passed this & day of full force and effect from and after 1986. YO~~R~/Lm L. ORE~4- ATTEST: Presented by me as Clerk and Treasurer to the Mayor of said City of jeffersonville this __~ day of ~~ Approved and signed by ?ac this & day of ~- , 1986. 1986. September 1986 - Page 2 CI~S & pROI~TIO~ OF BUSINESS IC 18-6-12-1 was repealed effective September 1, 1981, This statute authorized cities and towns to budget and appropriate funds from the general fund to pay the expenses of, or to reimburse city and town officials as the case may bey for expenses incurred in promoting ~tthe best interests of the city or town.tt Legal reporting services in cross references indicate lC 36-7-2-7 as the new replacement law. This statute states~ *~A unit may promote economic development and tourism." In comparing content of the repealed statute, it is clear the old statute was much broader in its scope. Host cities and towns that had appropriatio~s as authorized in the prior statute (IC 18-6-12-1) have continued with a similar appropri- ation line item in present budgets. Since repeal of the statute in 1981, the State Board of Accounts Uas instructed municipal officials (that wished to continue using local funds for those previously authorized purposes) that they should pass an ordinance authorizing such expenditures. The ordinance should cite home rule authority and should list the expenditure purposes for which disbursements are to be allowed. (See Cities and Towns Bulletin. December 1981, page In an effort to assist these units that have not passed an enabling ordinance but who which wish to either continue or to establish the pro- motion of business appropriation, we are repeating the wording of the old statute. Hany municipalities have used similar wording in their enabling ordinance. *~The common councils of cities and boards of town trustees are authorized to budget and appropriate funds from the general fund of the city~ or town, to pay the expenses of or to reimburse city officials or town officials as the case may be for expenses incurred in promoting the best interest of the city or town. Such expenses may include, but not necessarily be limited to rental of meeting places, meals, decorations, memorabilia, awards, expense incurred in interviewing job applicantS~ expenses incurred in promoting industrial, commercial, and resi- dential development, expenses incurred in developing relations with other units of government, and any other expenses of a civic or governmental nature deemed by the mayor or the board of town trusteeS to be in the interest of the city or town." This is furnished only for your information. Each city and town should establish, by ordinance, the parameters for such appropriations and expenditures.