Navigating the complex world of municipal budgeting can be daunting, especially when grant funding is crucial for your project’s success. With a plethora of grants and intricate application processes, finding the right funding can seem impossible. Many municipalities lack the internal capacity or expertise to effectively pursue these opportunities.
That’s where R/M comes in. Our grant experts are dedicated to helping your municipality secure the funding you need. We offer grant matchmaking services, leveraging our deep knowledge of funding sources, agencies, and application processes to align the best programs with your project needs. We prioritize finding grants where you have the highest probability of success. Plus, we handle the entire process, from application to administration, so you can focus on what matters most—your projects.
Services
Needs Assessment
We start with a thorough review of your CIP, budget, desired projects, and timelines to identify your municipality’s funding needs and priorities. This ensures a strategic approach to securing grant funding.
Grant Matrix
We match your projects to grants using our comprehensive matrix of federal, state, and local funding programs and deadlines.
Monitoring
Our team keeps an eye on new and upcoming programs by providing annual reviews and quarterly updates with tailored recommendations to maximize your funding potential.
Positioning
We handle the preparation of documentation and necessary registrations, ensuring you’re ready to seize funding opportunities when a great match is found.
Applications
Make your project stand out with expertly crafted grant applications. Our understanding of what decision-makers value most allows us to author compelling applications that highlight your project’s strengths and impact.
Administration
Focus on your projects while we handle the details. We can manage the administration of your grant-winning projects, ensuring compliance and timely reporting.
To help pay for improvements the City of Greenfield worked with R/M to apply for and receive over $650,000 in funding for this project so far, which is about 30% of the overall project costs. These grants focused on five critical areas of project design and construction completion of design plans, water quality and stream characterization, permitting, public outreach and community engagement, and construction. Those opportunities included the following.
Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) teamed with the Village of Brown Deer to plan and design a restoration and naturalization project for a stretch of Beaver Creek and Brown Deer Trail in the heart of the Village. Village officials recognized the need to revitalize a significant portion of the creek and the heavily-used trail that runs parallel to it. R/M set out to transform the entire appearance of the creek and trail by altering the layout and adding natural features to make a pedestrian-friendly corridor that connects the Village’s outer residential neighborhoods to a growing commercial and retail development corridor.
Before AssetAlly®, the Village of Mukwonago’s assets were unorganized and scattered, especially for their sewer utilities. Card files and paper books were everywhere, and it took a lot of steps and time to find information when they needed it. It was not uncommon for Village staff to spend over an hour finding plans for locates, and archiving maps could take even longer. With so many inefficiencies, the Village needed help organizing their assets to save time and money.
Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) was hosting the Village’s old GIS mapping application and introduced the Village to AssetAlly. The decision to switch was easy. R/M met with Village staff to address their immediate needs.
In August 2015, the City, in an effort to stimulate commercial and manufacturing growth, created Tax Incremental Financing District (TIF) #4. This District is located 1 mile from the STH 151 and STH 16/60 interchange making it a desirable location due to the transportation corridor on STH 16. Increasing the transportation infrastructure in the TIF proved to be crucial to attracting employers. In 2017, Drexel Building Supply began constructing a showroom and lumberyard on the condition that the existing Hall Road would be extended eastward to Columbus-Fall River Road.
The City of Greenfield struggled with storm events flooding Wildcat Creek to the point of frequent over-topping, structure flooding, and bank erosion. The community voiced concerns during public information meetings, driving the City to understand the extent of the flooding problems. Ruekert & Mielke, Inc. (R/M) were brought on board to assist with our professional engineering services to determine the flood risks and develop a more integrated storm water system.