The Town of Appomattox does provide dinner (a meal) for elected officials on their meeting nights (twice a month). The Town also provides a luncheon for employees a couple of times a year.

The Town of West Point provides food from a local restaurant. Subs, Sandwiches with chips Etc. prior to a meeting. We do not have morning meetings, we do not provied food for Committee meetings.

Dinner is provided to City Council and staff on meeting days. Snacks are provided during the Work Sessions.

We provide M&Ms and mixed nuts along with water and coffee at the Council meetings and Work Sessions. However,we did provide a meal before the Work Sessions prior to the economy downturn but that was cut in the budget a few years ago.

We provide dinners only to our video control room staff (2 people) on evenings when a work session is held (4:30) followed by the board meeting (7:00) because they cannot leave to get a meal between meetings. Other staff and members of the Board have that opportunity. We used to provide boxed lunches for the Board members and certain staff, but since the budget situation has been so bad, the Board has opted out of receiving meals. We provide meals for the Board, staff, and our legislative delegation when they visit to discuss the Legislative Program.

During community meetings, staff meetings, etc., the County generally does not pay for meal expenses.

Chesterfield County provides dinner for Board members and staff who are required to stay between the afternoon and evening sessions of Board of Supervisors meetings. Additionally, snacks (packaged crackers, peanuts, M&Ms) are provided in the drawers of each Board member for lengthy meetings. Board members may submit receipts for travel-related expenses quarterly, to include mileage and business-related meals. Not all Board members choose to submit these expenses, but prefer to use them as personal tax write-offs.

Our cafeteria provides dinner for Board members and staff who are required to attend both the afternoon work sessions and evening session of Board of Supervisors meetings. We also provide popcorn and cheese nips, as well as soft drinks and bottled water, during our work sessions. At our evening sessions, we have a coffee machine and cookies baked by our cafeteria. Dinner is also provided to our Planning Commission members on meeting days when they have afternoon work sessions. Typically, take out box dinners are ordered from a local shop although the cafeteria staff occasionally prepares these meals as well as the one for the Board of Supervisors. Our Board members meet with constituents in the County Manager's Office or at our eastern government center but not over lunch. If they are on a particularly tight schedule, we may order them a sandwich from the County cafeteria at the County's expense. We have not received requests from Board members to be reimbursed for meals with constituents. During legislative budget reviews, which involve all day weeklong work sessions each spring, we provide Board members and staff with lunch prepared by our cafeteria. Culinary arts students at a nearby high school prepare and serve dinner at our Board's annual meeting with the County's General Assembly delegation.

We provide a meal for Council and staff at our monthly worksession meeting beginning at 5:45p.m. We do not provide meals for the regular 7 p.m. Council meeting.

We provide candy and sodas (their requests) which is paid for by the Town. At times, some Council members contribute money towards the cost of the snacks.
At events, like our one annual meeting on a Saturday (tomorrow) we provide a light lunch of sandwiches & chips.
At other times during the year, meals with constituents, etc. are not reimbursed by the Town.

We provide a meal only if we are working through the meal time and there is no chance to stop for a meal. Such as our Saturday meeting that starts at 8:30 am- if we go past 1:00 pm we provide a meal. Due to budget cuts in the past we no longer reimburse for meals the board may have when meeting with a constituent. We basically said no more meeting over a meal and if you must then you pay for it yourself.