The Mayors' Annual Ball

Moving the Mayors’ Ball to Mar-a-Lago?

"The 2025 Mayors' Ball was in March at the PGA National Resort in Palm Beach Gardens.

The next Palm Beach County mayor, Sara Baxter, has suggested moving the county’s annual Mayors’ Ball, which benefits the Homeless Coalition, to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club.

The first-term Republican commissioner also has suggested the county cut its support for the coalition, a nonprofit whose board is headed by one of Baxter’s political rivals, former Commissioner Melissa McKinlay, a Democrat.

Why it’s important: The coalition plays a role in fighting to end homelessness in Palm Beach County and organizes and benefits from the annual Mayors’ Ball. Reducing homelessness is critical because a 2024 state law, banning sleeping in public places, requires local governments to provide shelter or face lawsuits.

Baxter, who will become mayor in November, told fellow commissioners this month that she had uncovered evidence that the coalition “was not actually serving as many homeless people as we thought.” She pushed to have the commission eliminate its funding."

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