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Type:
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Ordinance-S
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Status:
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Adopted
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On agenda:
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9/3/2025
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Final action:
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9/3/2025
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Title:
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Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Gaming Grant (Ordinance S-52246) - Citywide
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Title
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Gaming Grant (Ordinance S-52246) - Citywide
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for and accept up to $477,000 in new funding from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community under the 2026 funding cycle. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse funds as directed by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in connection with these grants.
Report
Summary
The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community 12 Percent Gaming grant application process is by invitation only. The tribe will select and identify which municipalities and local non-profits to invite to apply for funding consideration. An invitation to apply is not a guarantee that the application will be selected for funding by the tribe. Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community does not consider multi-year capital campaign projects.
If awarded, the funds would be applied, as directed by Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, towards the following:
City Application
- Office of Arts and Culture, S'edav Va'aki (formerly Pueblo Grande) Museum: $242,000 for the continuation and renovation of the main gallery exhibit. The Museum is committed to providing the best visitor experience possible, which includes updated and relevant information about the pre-contact inhabitants of the Salt River Valley, their descendants currently residing in the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community and the Gila River Indian Community, and connections to the history and development of Phoenix. Over the last three years, with previous grant funding, the Museum has renovated both main galleries and with stakeholder and Tribal consultation, have created a new interpretive vision and exhibit plan. Funding will provide the opportunity to create interactive exhibit elements, reproduction artifacts (in place of those objects that Tribal partners have requested to no longer be exhibited), videos, text panels with graphic elements, including original artwork where necessary, custom object mounts, to ensure the safety of certain artifacts, and gallery hardware, video screen, section dividers, tables/counters for interactive elements and benches.
Non-Profit Applications
- Arizona Humane Society: $85,000 for the Pet Resource Center and Emergency Medical Technicians, which are two of their most essential, people-centered programs. These departments directly strengthen public safety and social service outcomes by supporting vulnerable Maricopa County residents facing financial hardship, housing instability, or other crises that impact their ability to care for a pet. Funding will sustain these critical services, ensuring continued access to humane, community-based interventions that align with the community's priorities.
- Native American Connections (NAC): $150,000 for permanent supportive housing operations for five housing sites with a total of 335 residential units and a management and direct care staff of 35. Permanent supportive housing sites serve chronically homeless, disabled, minimal income residents and offer intensive case management, with low case load ratios, and wraparound services. These five housing sites grew out of NAC's work as a non-profit Urban Indian Organization striving to maintain a continuum of culturally competent services for Native American clients and residents.
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 public, including public safety, mitigation of impacts of gaming, and promotion of commerce and economic development. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community will notify the City, by resolution of the Tribal Council, if it desires to convey to the City or nonprofit a portion of its annual 12 percent local revenue-sharing contribution.
Financial Impact
There is no budgetary impact to the City 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 City Manager Jeffrey Barton and the Office of Government Relations.
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