02 May 2025

Grants & Funding Opportunities | May 2025

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This month’s grants and funding opportunities from Georgia’s Department of Transportation (GDOT). ECG’s Office of Economic & Community Development curates grants and funding opportunities monthly aimed at helping our communities with the necessary resources crucial for growing existing industries and recruiting new businesses. Check it out!


Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
Local Maintenance and Improvement Grant (LMIG)
Type: Grant
Deadline: 6/15/2025

The LMIG program has been developed in cooperation with ACCG, GMA, and others. The annual LMIG allocation is based on the total centerline road miles for each local road system and the total population of each county or city as compared with the total statewide centerline road miles and total statewide population.

The following activities/projects will be eligible for LMIG funds:

  • Preliminary engineering (including engineering work for R/W plans and Utility plans)
  • Construction supervision & inspection
  • Utility Adjustments or replacement
  • Patching, leveling and resurfacing a paved roadway
  • Grading, Drainage, Base and Paving existing or new roads
  • Replacing storm drain pipe or culverts
  • Intersection improvements
  • Turn lanes
  • Bridge repair or replacement
  • Sidewalk adjacent (within right of way) to a public roadway or street
  • Roadway Signs, striping, guardrail installation
  • Signal installation or improvement
  • Aggregate Surface Course for dirt road maintenance

https://www.dot.ga.gov/GDOT/Pages/LMIG.aspx