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1. Ultra Vires Act: The City of Sunny Isles Beach operates under a City Manager form of government. The City Charter grants the Mayor no enumerated power to act as the unilateral gatekeeper of a taxpayer -funded public stage. Banning the City's founding father and a former Mayor from participating in a public civic recognition is an ultra vires act —an action taken entirely outside the legal scope of the Mayor's authority. 2. Misappropriation of a Public Forum: A $300,000 taxpayer -funded event is not a private function or a political platform. By weaponizing a public stage to exclude specific individuals, the Mayor misappropriated a public asset, transforming a community celebration into a private vanity project and violating the public trust. 3. Breach of Intergovernmental Decorum: Publicly denying a sitting Miami -Dade County Commissioner's request to honor the City's founding father is a severe breach of intergovernmental decorum. This conduct violates the spirit of the Miami -Dade County Citizens' Bill of Rights, which mandates professionalism, courtesy, and respect from all public officials, and it brings unnecessary embarrassment to the City's reputation. In direct protest of this blatant abuse of power, and out of profound respect for the former Mayors and the Office of the County Commissioner, Commissioner Stuyvesant rightfully declined to participate in the stage presentation, refusing to legitimize or empower exclusionary conduct. A formal censure is the standard and necessary legislative mechanism used by municipal bodies to publicly reprimand an official who acts outside the bounds of their legal authority. By adopting this Resolution, the City Commission formally condemns the breach of decorum, demands a written apology to the affected parties, and reaffirms that all city events belong to the taxpayers. ATTACHMENTS: Resolution Item Number: 9.X 432