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A city government adopts Ordinance 44-RelSec, which requires that any organization receiving city funds for health and welfare services must ensure that the organization’s premises and program activities are secular during funded hours. The ordinance prohibits the display of religious symbols on funded premises and bars staff prayers or religious instruction during funded program hours. Faith-based NGO 'Beloved Community Health Center,' which operates a city-partnered clinic and relies on city subsidies, would have to remove a crucifix in its reception area and discontinue staff prayers. It challenges the ordinance as violating the 1987 Constitution’s Non-establishment and Free Exercise Clauses. (a) Identify the controlling constitutional doctrine at issue. (b) Apply that doctrine to the ordinance and assess its constitutionality, specifying the relevant standard or test (neutral toward religion and generally applicable; if not, strict scrutiny). (c) If unconstitutional, what remedies are available to Beloved Community Health Center.