Ordinance - #16-12 - 11/07/2016 - Laserfiche WebLink

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Types of Purchases Prohibited Use of a city credit card is prohibited for the following purchases: 1. Personal purchases of any kind 2. Alcoholic Purchases of any kind If a city employee makes a purchase by credit card that is inconsistent with this policy and/or is not approved by the Council, the employee is personally liable for the amount of the purchase. Procedures and Documentation Finance will receive the monthly bill and respective cardholder will receive a copy of the monthly statement of charges. The cardholder is responsible for obtaining and attaching detailed invoices and receipts for all charges on the statement and provide a public purpose/description of the expense and submit all of the documentation to the department director or designee by the due date. Payment will be made if the billing matches all completed credit card invoices and receipts. 4.9 Public Purpose Expenditures Pursuant to the statutes and laws of the State of Minnesota which regulate the expenditure of public funds for public purposes, The Ramsey City Council believes it is necessary and appropriate to provide assistance and guidelines to the officials, employees, and representatives of Ramsey to aid in the determination of when public funds may be spent for a public purpose. To provide that assistance and guidance the Ramsey City Council adopted Resolution #06-11-369 Discretionary Expenditures Policy that outlined the following items that are deemed to meet the City Council definition of public purpose expenditures: Meals and Refreshments: 1. Meals are allowed as part of a city business meeting in which the character of the meeting would involve predominantly non -city employees. 2. When they are part of a breakfast/lunch/dinner meeting for official city business when it is the only practical time to meet and when it involves non -city employee participants (i.e. business developers or business representatives). Only the expenses incurred by city employee(s) may be reimbursed. The City Administrator is allowed some discretion regarding expenditures for meals as per the personnel policy. 3. When they are part of the structured agenda for an offsite conference, workshop, seminar, training session, or meeting in which the City Administrator or a department director has authorized the employee to attend for training and development purposes (this does not include routine staff meetings). 4. All meetings shall be scheduled to minimized inclusion of meals. At meetings of a minimum length of five hours consisting primarily of city employees when the refreshment and/or meals are an integral part of the event and are necessary to sustain the flow of the meeting, and if the meeting is one of the following: a. A department -wide annual staff meeting for employees; or b. A non -routine organization -wide staff meeting for all managers and/or supervisors; or 5. During official meetings of the City Council 6. A dinner meal for staff during performance of election -related duties on Election Day. Recognition Events/Purchases: 1. The City Administrator may authorize modest expenditures for food and refreshments for the following employee events, each of which shall not take place more than once per year: a. Annual Employee Breakfast b. Annual Employee Luncheon c. Other Recognition Events that may arise. 6