Title
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Gaming Grant (Ordinance S-51229)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply for and accept up to $640,000 in new funding from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community under the 2025 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: $350,000 for the continuation and expansion of the second main gallery at the Museum. S’edav Va’aki Museum has been working to update the messages that are shared with the public to better reflect the connection this ancestral site has to current Native American communities. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa and Gila River Indian communities are the descendants of those who built the site and have been assisting the Museum not only with cultural relevancy, but also funding for these changes.
Non-Profit Applications
- Arizona Humane Society: $90,000 for the Emergency Animal Medical Technician and Pet Resource Center programs. The Pet Resource Center works to keep pets out of the shelter by providing resources and aid to pet owners in need, while the Emergency Animal Medical Technician program saves abused, neglected, and abandoned pets throughout Maricopa County.
- Native American Connections: $200,000 for permanent supportive housing operations for five housing sites with a total of 280 residential units and a management and direct care staff of 35. Permanent supportive housing sites serve chronically homeless, disabled, minimal income 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 general 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.