Title
Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-43560)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $5,210,210 in new funding from the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). Authorization is requested for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse funds as directed by GRIC in connection with these grants.
Report
Summary
These monies would be applied, as directed by GRIC, towards the following:
Non-Profit Applications
* A Stepping Stone Foundation: $150,000 (over three years) for the Literacy Elevates Arizona Families (LEAF) expansion into Bret Traver Isaac Preschool. LEAF will have the capacity to serve 50 participants, including preschoolers, parents and younger siblings participating in childcare.
* Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo: $500,000 (over three years) for the Pride Campaign, which will fund a series of capital projects in four major areas of the Phoenix Zoo, which will dramatically impact guest experience, strengthen educational offerings and expand programs for species recovery.
*Arizona Humane Society (AHS): $100,384 (over two years) for the AHS' Emergency Animal Medical Technician & Cruelty Investigators Program, to purchase key, lifesaving capital equipment and supplies to the program.
* Arizona Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC): $206,349 for the Arizona OIC Caregiver Train Care program, a resource center for caregivers and seniors designed to meet the needs of families and their caregivers, individuals affected by Alzheimer's disease.
* Assistance League of Phoenix: $50,000 for the Operation School Bell program, which provides school uniform packages, including a hygiene kit and new book, to very-low income grade K-8 children attending 84 Phoenix metro area public and public charter schools.
* Ballet Arizona: $2,500 for the Class Warm Up program, which provides dance education to K-12 students within Title 1 schools.
* Banner Health Foundation: $400,000 (over three years) for their Better Beginnings, a Neonatal Intensive Care Support program for mother and child. The project will support vital medical care and education for mothers and their premature infants at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix.
* Colten Cowell Foundation: $225,000 (over three years) for the Building a Monument to Compassion project, which requests a capital contribution to help build a 35,000-square-foot center to support families with children facing significant life challenges.
* Educare Arizona: $225,000 (over three years) for the Extended Day Expansion program, which provides high-quality, full-day, research-based early care and education for low-income, high-risk children ages birth to five, along with family support services and parent education.
* Elevate Phoenix: $30,000 for the Discover Your Future Program, which assists urban, at-risk students in grades K-12 to achieve success through innovative programs that provide tutoring and mentoring that enhances their general knowledge, keeps them in school through graduation, helps them prepare for and enter post-secondary education and promotes lifelong learning.
* Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation: $50,000 for their Workforce Development and Training program, which will help fill the gap between thousands of low-income young adults who need well-paying jobs, but are not prepared for them, and companies who desperately are looking for qualified employees, but cannot find them, by working in partnership with employers, educators and community partners to better prepare students for these jobs.
* Hacienda Children's Hospital: $150,000 (over two years) for hospital direct care operations, which will fund direct-patient-care operational costs for Hacienda Children's Hospital.
* Hacienda Inc.: $65,000 for the Disability Transportation program, which provides wheelchair transportation to Hacienda Treatment and Training clients who travel from their homes or group homes to Hacienda for daily activities.
* Justa Center, Inc.: $246,000 (over three years) for the Training and Respect in Elderly Education program working with the senior homeless population.
* Lights Camera Discover: $30,000 for after-school and summer youth programs to purchase program equipment and software.
* Native American Connections: $250,000 (over two years) for the HomeBase Youth Services program, which will support emergency shelter for youth experiencing homelessness, case management, GED/education and employment assistance.
* New Pathways for Youth: $35,000 for their Transformative Mentoring program, helping youth in the highest need communities build the skills and relationships necessary to succeed in the classroom and in life.
* Phoenix Day: $73,559 for the Expanded Preschool for Infant Children program and their infant (six weeks to one year in age) classroom capacity.
* Phoenix Rescue Mission: $50,000 for the Changing Lives Center (CLC) Health program, which will provide needed healthcare services for homeless women and children residing in the CLC shelter as they work towards recovery and long- term self-sufficiency.
* Sonoran Prevention Works: $139,791 for case-management for high-risk substance users in Maricopa County and in the Gila River Indian Community.
* Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS: $249,000 (over three years) for the Integrated Collaborative Care project, which will improve the health of HIV-positive individuals who have co-morbid conditions through integrated services.
* St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $100,000 for the Community Kitchen program, which helps low-income and homeless adults receive job training in a well-paying industry and teaches them personal and professional skills.
* The Salvation Army: $265,000 for the Salvation Army Human Services-Emergency Assistance program, which provides food, rental, transportation and utility assistance.
* The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project: $299,877 (over three years) for the Shoebox Family Unity Campaign, which educates and empowers immigrant families to create a family plan in case of detention or deportation and protect their paternal rights.
* Trellis: $100,000 for the Equal Opportunity Health - Live Healthy McDowell project, a wellness-focused corridor and community area.
* UPWARD for Children and Families: $225,000 (over three years) for the Outpatient Therapy for Children with Disabilities program, which supports medically necessary outpatient therapies for children with mild to severe disabilities. The goal of the therapies is to help children reach their maximum potential in school and in life.
* Valley Youth Theatre: $135,000 (over three years) for the Literacy and the Arts program, which uses theatre to increase reading comprehension and build enthusiasm for literature.
* Technical Assistance Partnership of Arizona, as fiscal sponsor for Three Precious Miracles: $60,000 (over three years) for the Strengthening Cultural Connection in Foster Care program, which works with native foster children and identifies the needs of traumatized children and finds supportive programs that are culturally appropriate to make the transition into foster care easier.
City Applications
* City of Phoenix Communications Office: $30,000 (over three years) for know99 Literacy Programming, which broadcasts literacy programming to K-3 students in Phoenix.
* City of Phoenix Fire Department: $100,000 for the Phoenix Fire Department Type II Ambulance project, which seeks funding to purchase an ambulance.
* City of Phoenix Housing Department: $255,000 (over two years) for the Beat Street AZ/Youth Education project, which would provide low-income pre-adolescent youth of color with life skills to provide healthy living and lifestyle education, employment preparation, teach leadership skills, develop artistic interest, encourage post-secondary education and improve academic achievement for youth ages 11-18.
* City of Phoenix Human Services Department: $45,000 for Family Services Center wifi installation, which would provide low-income clients applying for emergency financial assistance with wifi access to gather required documentation needed for provision of services at three local Community Action locations.
* City of Phoenix Law Department-Prosecutor's Office: $87,950 (over three years) for the City of Phoenix Prosecutor's Office Technology Upgrade project, which is to enhance technology used by prosecutors and staff in the review and presentation of digital evidence in the prosecution of criminal cases and to better equip Community Justice Specialists who use technology to provide community outreach and education to citizens groups and students in schools.
* City of Phoenix Public Library Department: $36,800 for the Counting Words for Success in Early Learning pilot program, which will test the effectiveness of providing low-income parents with digital word counters to encourage them to talk more with infants and young children.
* City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department (NSD): $75,000 (over three years) for the NSD Youth and Community Engagement Program, which grant funding will support continuation and expansion of the City of Phoenix Neighborhood Services Department programs, including Tomorrow Involved Leaders Today Youth Leadership, Good Neighbor Program, Neighborhood College and expand to include the Neighborhood Leadership Studio.
* City of Phoenix Office of Sustainability: $125,000 for the Cook-Off and Fitness Challenge program, which will combat childhood obesity by implementing a district-wide integrated food education and fitness program.
* City of Phoenix Water Services Department: $43,000 for Tres Rios Wetlands Interpretive Signs, to design, fabricate and install interpretive and educational signs at the Tres Rios Wetlands project.
The gaming compact entered into by the State of Arizona and various tribes calls for 12 percent of gaming revenue to be contributed to cities, towns and counties for government services that benefit the general public including public safety, mitigation of impacts of gaming and promotion of commerce, and economic development. The Gila River Indian Community will notify the City, by resolution of the Tribal Council, if it desires to convey to the City a portion of its annual 12-percent local revenue-sharing contribution.
Financial Impact
There is no budgetary impact to the City of Phoenix and no general purpose funds are required. Entities that receive gaming grants are responsible for the management of those funds.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Karen Peters and the Office of Government Relations.