As part of an ongoing effort to provide transparency in government, the Town of Miami Lakes released its Fourth Quarter Performance Report for the period of July to September 2014. The report provides a narrative for individual performance areas and shares information on department goals and successes. All graphs in the report are demonstrated on a fiscal-year basis and most data is shown cumulatively. “Performance measures are...

  Miami Lakes Economic Development Committee announced the “Miami Lakes Video Tour.” CGI Communications, in partnership with the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National League of Cities, produced three free community videos that are now hosted on the Town’s website homepage, www.miamilakes-fl.gov. The committee assisted in developing the script and shoot locations for the videos to showcase the best of what Miami...

  Miami Lakes is offering to promote community events for free on the Town’s Community Calendar hosted on the Town’s website. The calendar features events, meetings, and programs that are open to the public and organized by local non-profit organizations, houses of worship and businesses. Visit www.miamilakes-fl.gov/commcalendar to vies the Community Events Calendar. For Town events, visit www.miamilakes-fl.gov/calendar. The...

  Once again, State Senator Rene Garcia, and State Representatives Jose Oliva and Manny Diaz Jr., are teaming up during the 2015 Florida Legislative Session in Tallahassee to help Miami Lakes secure state funding for several capital improvement projects. This year, the town is requesting $3.75 million for four different projects: The West Lakes drainage improvement project, the Lake Sarah, Adele, Hilda, Mary and Suzie drainage...

  As former Florida Senator Bob Graham watched his daughter, an incoming House Democrat, shake hands with an endless line of visitors, he peeked out of her corner office window at the briskly falling snow and marveled at the symmetry to his own political career. Thirty-six years earlier, a 15-year-old Gwen Graham stood with her father on a frigid outdoor stage in Tallahassee at his first inauguration as Governor. It snowed that day as...