Grants works in partnership with Departments and Offices to research, compose, edit, and submit Federal, State, Local, and Foundation funding opportunities to support the goals and objectives of the 2025 Strategic Plan.

Additional functions include:

• Serve as Town liaison to grant funding organizations to ensure effective communication throughout the grant process.
• Assist Departments and Offices to execute grant contracts and agreements.
• Provide technical and grant administration support to Departments and Offices.
• Ensure Project Managers maintain fiscal and performance oversight of grant-funded programs, projects, and services.
• Provide grant-related informational support to the Finance Department to establish and manage fiscal accounts.
• Provide grant-related informational support to Procurement for competitive bids and continuing services contracts.
• Compose and submit applicable progress, expenditure, desk monitoring, and close-out grant reporting requirements.
• Assist the Town Manager’s Office with completing legislative appropriation requests to acquire discretionary funding for capital projects.

  Please see below list of awards

• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Grant for Fairway Drive improvements - $900,000
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program for the Bob Graham Education Center - $241,143
• Miami Dade County Neat Streets Tree Matching Grant for the Miami Lakes West Lake Reforestation Phase 3 Project - $37,422.55
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for Business Park East NW 60th Avenue Complete Streets Project - $1,000,000
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Safe Routes to School for the SRTS Miami Lakes Elementary School (Shared-use Path) Project - $521,638
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for the Green South Shared-use Path along NW 77th Court/NW 154th Street to the Dog Park - $600,000
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) for the Green North Shared-use Path along NW 77th Court/NW 154th Street – NW 163rd Street - $200,000
• General Appropriations Act Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the Lake Sarah Drainage Improvements Project - $300,000
• The Miami Foundation Public Space Challenge for the Par 3 Community Outreach and Engagement Event - $10,000
• South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) Cooperative Funding Program/Stormwater Management for the Lake Sarah Drainage Improvements Project - $125,000 
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) Highway Beautification Grant for the SR 826 Underpass Beautification Project - $100,000
• Street Tree Matching /Neat Streets Miami Grant for the Miami Lakes West Lakes Reforestation Project Phase II -  $18,500
• Miami-Dade TPO SMART Moves Program for the Miami Lakes Smart Mobility and Future Technology Transportation Study - $40,000
• Office of Emergency Management Miami-Dade Fire Rescue for Twelve (12) Emergency Satellite Phones for Hurricane Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Phases of Emergency Management - Valued at $15,000
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Office of Energy (FDACS OOE) Florida Small Community Energy Efficient Lighting Program for the Royal Oaks Park Sports Fields LED Retrofit Project - $225,000
• General Appropriations Act/ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for the West Lakes Drainage Improvements Phase III Project - $500,000
• Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) County Incentive Grant Program (CIGP) for the NW 59th Avenue Roadway Extension and Redevelopment Project - $3,614,500
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA) Grant for the West Lakes Drainage Improvements Project - $1,462,499.95
• Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant- Countywide (JAGC) for the Town's School Resource Officer Project (OT) in amount of $4,419.
• Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) Grant for the Miami Lakes GREEN 2.0 Project in the amount of $541,494 to construct bike lanes and a landscaped path along NW 146th Street between NW 89th Avenue and NW 87th Avenue
• Florida Department of Transportation, Florida Highway Beautification Grant for the SR 826/NW 154th Street Landscape and Hardscape Improvements Project in the amount of $100,000 
• Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant – Direct (2017-JAGD-1913) for the Town’s School Resource Officer Project in the amount of $4,838
• Street Tree Matching /Neat Streets Miami Grant for the Miami Lakes West Lakes Reforestation Project Phase I in the amount of $15,000
• General Appropriations for the Miami Lakes Canal Bank Stabilization of Drainage Canal - Phase II, in the amount of $1,000,000.
• Saris Bike Parking Giveaway-Bike Parking Facilities for Royal Oaks Park Community Center ($800 value)
• Transportation Alternatives Program - Miami Lakes NW 59th Avenue Transportation Improvements Project - $1,000,000
• Transportation Alternatives Program - Miami Lakes NW 79th Court Transportation Improvements Project – $1,000,000

For more information about Miami Lakes grant activity, please contact:

Renée N. Wilson, MPA
Grants and Governmental Affairs Manager
(305) 364-6100 x1225
wilsonr@miamilakes-fl.gov