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 Brevard County
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 2. ADMINISTRATION
 Article V. FINANCE

  § 2-134. Incentive and nonprofit awards.  

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  • (a)

    It is hereby ascertained and found that the expenditure of county funds for the purpose of recognizing county employees or other individuals who have performed for the county or the Brevard community in a superior manner and nonprofit entities which provide services needed by the Brevard community or which promote the development of the humanities and service to the Brevard community constitute valid and proper county purposes. It is further ascertained and found that the expenditure of county funds to promote employee morale and employee group events constitutes a valid and proper public purpose.

    (b)

    The county manager is hereby authorized to institute an incentive program whereby county funds may be spent to promote plaques, awards or other tributes for individuals who have distinguished themselves by service to the county or the public, including, but not limited to, dinners in order to recognize citizen participation in projects such as safe driving courses and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) courses, dedications for public centers and parks, plaques for annual achievement awards, cash awards for county-sponsored recreational events, contributions for materials such as paper products or food for special events conducted for handicapped citizens or for civil defense drills, purchases of buttons, caps, patches or articles of clothing promoting the county or its projects, waiver of fees for county employee group use of county facilities, and for such other purposes as meet the intent of this section.

    (c)

    The county manager is hereby authorized to institute a program whereby county funds may be spent to fund nonprofit organizations which provide services needed by the Brevard community, such services to include, but not be limited to, mental health, seniors' programs, activities for the handicapped or retarded, and animal control and such other entities that by agreement provide services to the public in general; and to recognize nonprofit entities which promote the development of the humanities within the Brevard community.

(Code 1979, § 1-152; Ord. No. 95-18, § 1, 4-18-95)