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A resolution of the mayor and city commission of the city of miami beach, florida, establishing a procedure to limit the city commission's award of unbudgeted grants for community groups and special projects, as follows: (1) imposing an annual not-to- exceed cap on unbudgeted commission-sponsored funding requests for community-based organization grants, special events, sponsorships, or other similar discretionary expenditures, with a cap of $525,000 for the remainder of fiscal year 2023; (2) limiting each member of the city commission to an allocation of up to $75,000 for any grant award, special event, sponsorship or other expenditure serving a public purpose; (3) requiring that such allocations be subject to ratification by the city commission on the next available consent agenda after the allocation is made, and may only be disapproved upon a finding, on a 4/7ths vote, that no public purpose is served thereby; (4) providing that any proposal for funding in excess of each member’s aggregate allocation of $75,000 for the remainder of fy2023 be addressed as part of the annual budget process for fy2024 or may otherwise only be approved via a waiver of this resolution, on a 5/7ths vote, after review and recommendation by a commission committee; and (5) further, providing that this resolution shall not apply to or limit administration-related funding requests with respect to the operation or administration of the city. Office of the city attorney commissioner alex fernandez