Miami Lakes received a grant from the South Florida Water Management Department’s  Cooperative Funding Program in the amount of $125,000 in an extremely competitive proposal process in which only 31 proposals from 94 applicants were funded.The funding will supplement the Miami Lakes Lake Sarah Drainage Improvements Project located between Miami Lakeway South, State Road 924, Palmetto Expressway and N.W. 67 Avenue in the southeast...

Miami Lakes Town Council members and staff wore pink during the October 4 Council meeting to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addition, Town Hall has been illuminated every night in pink lighting this month, and throughout the day, lobby lights glow a beautiful shade of pink. Councilmember Nelson Rodriguez highlighted a special non-profit, the Women’s Breast and Heart Initiative. Based in Miami Lakes, the...

  When Miami Lakes Councilmember Manny Cid decided to run for mayor, 10 candidates initially filed papers to run for his vacant Seat 5, but only three qualified while the others failed to do so or withdrew from the race. Luis Collazo, former chair of the Miami Lakes Elderly Affairs Committee; Esther Colon, a former town manager for Lauderdale by the Sea; and attorney Nayib Hassan are seeking the vacant seat on election day, November...

The Miami Lakes Town Council adopted a new tax rate for property taxes to help shield residents with Homestead Exemption from a tax hike, and a $35 million budget which included restoring funding for the city’s committees since volunteers play a major role in the town’s affairs.Lawmakers initially kept the 2.3518 rate but reduced it to the rollback rate of 2.3353 mills and closed the $40,000 budget deficit by cutting funding from...

A Candidate Forum for the November 8 general election will be held at noon on Tuesday, October 11, at Town Hall, 6601 Main Street, in Miami LakesThe Town has been hosting candidate forums for the past two elections with the Good Government Initiative (which is no longer active). Merrett R. Stierheim, a former interim Miami Lakes Town Manager, will serve as this year’s moderator in collaboration with the League of Women Voters of...