The purpose of this chapter is to create and establish a publicity
fund and to provide for the appropriate expenditures therefrom in
connection with the Village of Flower Hill, New York
It is determined that certain publicly and privately sponsored
parades, festivals, exhibitions, shows, contests, farmers' markets,
displays, games, races and other similar events held within the Village
for the public at large and which are designed to attract visitors
to the area are desirable for the general welfare of the Village inhabitants
and are otherwise desirable for the benefit of trade within the Village.
The Board of Trustees may, in its discretion, make appropriations
to the publicity fund hereby established either as part of the annual
budget or at any time from unanticipated revenues or from surplus
amounts in other accounts. Such publicity funds may not, however,
be funded in any fiscal year in an amount greater than $3,000, nor
shall annual expenditures from such fund for all qualified objects
and purposes exceed the sum of $3,000 in any event.
No expenditure from the publicity fund shall be made to benefit
any single recipient or event in an amount greater than $1,000 in
any one fiscal year of the Village.
Any resolution by the Board of Trustees authorizing the expenditure
of money from the publicity fund may contain special limitations upon
the recipient's use of any money to be paid by the Village, and
the payment of any money so authorized shall be conditioned upon the
recipient's satisfactory compliance with the stated limitations.
No payment from the publicity fund shall be made by the Village
until the qualifying event has actually occurred in its contemplated
magnitude or the Board of Trustees has determined that the benefit
to be derived by the Village and its inhabitants has actually been
received.
This chapter is not intended to create any right to funding
in any person or organization, nor is the Board of Trustees obliged
to appropriate any money to the publicity fund or to expend any amount
from the publicity fund at any time.