FY 2023 Community Funding Project Requests
(LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Title: ACE Theater Renovation Project
Project Sponsor: The ACE Theater Foundation
Project Amount: $2,000,000
Description: This project will help fund the renovation of the Historic ACE Theater in West Coconut Grove and turn it into a multipurpose facility and economic generator for the community. The funding will bring the theater back to its original glory and help turn the location into a cultural gathering place for Miami's African American and Bahamian communities.
Title: Banyan Community Health Center - Little Havana Campus Expansion
Project Sponsor: Banyan Community Health
Project Amount: $2,500,000
Description: The Banyan Community Health Center - Little Havana Campus is a specially designated Federally Qualified Health Center that serves as a safety net for Little Havana’s medically underserved community. This project expands the facility which will provide pediatric primary care, women’s health, OB/GYN services, pharmacy, lab, dentistry, outpatient psychiatry, and other community resources for over 20,000 patients per year.
Title: City of Miami 8th Street Neighborhood Flood Mitigation Project
Project Sponsor: City of Miami
Project Amount: $4,890,723
Description: This project will fund flood mitigation efforts in the Little Havana neighborhood where the community experiences significant flooding during king tides, rain events, and other weather events. The improvements will include the creation of hybrid seawalls, living shorelines, rain gardens, blue streets, and bioswales.
Title: City of Miami Jose Marti Park Flood Mitigation Project
Project Sponsor: City of Miami
Project Amount:$4,890,723
Description: The funds will assist mitigation efforts to harden infrastructure at Jose Marti Park located on the Miami River in Little Havana. The project will help with flood mitigation while also adding a new riverwalk, refurbishing existing buildings, and integrating native tree canopy.
Title: Village of Pinecrest Lateral Connection Project
Project Sponsor:Village of Pinecrest
Project Amount: $640,000
Description: Currently, there are hundreds of homes located in Pinecrest that have no access to potable drinking water. This project will help install pipes at many of those homes and allow them to be connected to the city water supply.
Title: Cutler Bay Marlin Road Improvement Project
Project Sponsor: Town of Cutler Bay
Project Amount: $4,400,000
Description: This project will upgrade a stretch of Marlin Road to reduce congestion and improve public safety. This includes installation of 10' wide high-visibility crosswalks; pedestrian refuge in the median; installation of 5' wide sidewalks and ADA ramps; installation of bike lanes or share-the-road signage; and installation of pedestrian lighting, as feasible.
Title: Florida International University Small Business Accelerator Program
Project Sponsor: Florida International University
Project Amount: $650,000
Description:The proposed project would dedicate business consultants to municipalities within District 27 to provide hyperlocal consulting and training to businesses in key areas, such as government contracting, access to capital, financial literacy, and startup assistance. The project seeks to assist and train over 1,000 businesses in the district during the project period.
Title: Florida International University Enhanced Domain Awareness and Security Research Hub
Project Sponsor: Florida International University
Project Amount: $1,300,000
Description: Led by FIU, this request would formalize a growing relationship between SOUTHCOM and FIU and ensure Miami continues to be a research leader. The request will allow for the Security Research Hub to grow, incorporating additional research jobs and collaboration between entities, with a greater focus on Central America and the Chinese Influence in Latin America. The Enhanced Domain Awareness (EDA) takes a whole-of-hemisphere approach, bringing together the best from across academia, government, civil society, think tanks, private sector, and multilateral organizations to provide data and analytic power to support the U.S. Department of Defense and partner nation decision-makers with real-time information and analysis.
Title: Miami-Dade County Stormwater Drainage Improvement Project
Project Sponsor: Miami Dade County
Project Amount: $420,000
Description: This project is located in southern Miami Dade County along SW 216th street between Old Cutler Drive and SW 87th Avenue. It will improve stormwater management practices in the area by implementing engineering strategies to reduce and treat stormwater, thus reducing runoff and improving water quality.
Title: Miami-Dade Police Department Platform Upgrade
Project Sponsor: Miami Dade Police Department
Project Amount: $3,750,000
Description: This project ensures Miami law enforcement has the latest and most up-to-date equipment to protect and serve our community. It replaces the department’s outdated Mobile Computing laptops with Samsung smartphones and its DeX platform for in-vehicle computing. Doing this would provide officers with access to all applications on the road while seamlessly transitioning to an office environment by docking to a desktop setup. This project achieves public safety efficiencies by equipping officers with an arsenal of investigative tools at their fingertips and immense cost savings by using smartphones instead of pricey laptops.
Title: Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Mental Health Facility Expansion
Project Sponsor: Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Project Amount: $1,000,000
Description: This project helps improve mental health services for children by expanding the existing pediatric mental health facility at the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital from 20 beds to 40 beds. This is vital to address the growing number of children with mental health concerns.
Title: Nicklaus Children’s Pharmacogenomic Testing Program
Project Sponsor: Nicklaus Children’s Hospital
Project Amount: $450,000
Description: This creates a drug testing program to reduce adverse patient reactions and greatly improve patient safety. Pharmacogenomic testing allows for your doctors to pre-screen patients to determine what medicines would be best suited to treat individuals based on their genetics. This project would fund the development of this type of testing for every patient at Nicholas Children’s Hospital.
Title: PortMiami Shore Power Project
Project Sponsor: Miami Dade County
Project Amount: $2,000,000
Description: This project will reduce harmful emissions and improve air quality at the port by allowing docking ships to shut off their engines while idling and plug into electric power. It also enhances port infrastructure and generates operational efficiencies to reduce costs and improve the surrounding environment and community. The use of shore power will significantly reduce emissions from ships at dock, providing considerable environmental benefits to the surrounding Miami-Dade County community and facilitating safer, more efficient, and more reliable goods and passenger movement through the Port.
Title: University of Miami Rosenstiel School Aquaculture Research Project
Project Sponsor: University of Miami
Project Amount: $900,000
Description: This project allows the University to expand its unique aquaculture campus in Key Biscayne to include an inland grow and research facility. Currently, this facility must work with foreign partners. This project would lead to greater food sustainability, grow domestic aquaculture, and reduce reliance on foreign growers for cobia and other saltwater fish.
Title: Village of Key Biscayne Coastal Storm Risk Management Feasibility Study
Project Sponsor: Village of Key Biscayne
Project Amount: $1,500,000
Description: This expedites a critical storm resilience project vital to stopping coastal erosion, combatting sea-level rise, and protecting Key Biscayne from future storms. The current Dade County Coastal Storm Risk Management study only includes a study of the oceanside shoreline of Key Biscayne. This funding would allow for the U.S. Army Core of Engineers (USACE) to study bayside concerns and help protect over $9.5 billion of shoreline and property in Key Biscayne.