File #: 21-1269   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Continued
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 6/2/2021 Final action: 6/2/2021
Title: Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-47639)
District: Citywide
Related files: 21-1627

Title

Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-47639)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $6,870,730.76 in new funding from the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) under the 2021 funding cycle. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse funds as directed by GRIC in connection with these grants.

 

Report

Summary

If awarded, these monies would be applied, as directed by GRIC, towards the following:

 

City Applications

  • Housing Department: $65,450 for the Phoenix Housing Connect Digital Literacy Training, which will develop a digital literacy training program for residents who recently received a device and two years of free internet service. Additionally, training will be provided to onsite residents interested in becoming Tech Ambassadors to assist their neighbors who need individual assistance.
  • Neighborhood Services Department: $203,600 (over three years) for the Love Your Block Project, which will heighten neighborhood, business and community engagement.
  • Office of Environmental Programs: $298,356 (over three years) for the Seeding Abundance and Growing Our Future project, which will provide equipment and training for consumers located in food deserts to grow their own food and develops new urban farmers resulting in improved health, reduced food insecurity and increased economic opportunities.
  • Office of Sustainability: $192,000 (over three years) for the Cool Kids Cool Corridors - A Children's Health Project, which will implement cooling strategies and vegetation to improve the public health of students.
  • Parks and Recreation Department: $20,100 for the Pueblo Grande Museum Outdoor Exhibits Renovation, which will renovate two outdoor exhibit areas, the reconstructed pit houses and the demonstration archeological dig site on the grounds of Pueblo Grande Museum.
  • Phoenix Fire Department: $76,189.42 for the Special Events Emergency Response Vehicle program, which will enhance emergency medical response capabilities within the footprint of special events with limited vehicle access due to crowd congestion or space restriction.
  • Phoenix Police Department: $269,043.34 for the Officer Safety Package, which will provide additional night vision goggles and protective equipment needed to effectively protect officers and citizens within the Phoenix Metropolitan area.
  • Public Transit Department: $85,000 for the 302 N. 1st Avenue Parking Garage Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations project, funding will be used to purchase and install six EV charging stations in the Public Transit owned 302 N. 1st Avenue (Public Transit headquarters) parking garage.
  • Public Transit Department: $299,850 (over two years) for the Transit Bus Shelter Safety Lighting Program, which will expedite and improve lighting systems for transit bus shelters to provide and improve customer experience and increased public safety for the transit-dependent populations in Phoenix.
  • Public Works Department: $9,920 for the Virtual Compost Facility Tour in the Solid Waste Section, which will fund an educational tour of a compost facility to be posted online to the public.

 

Non-Profit Applications

  • 19North Community Alliance: $237,000 for the Accelerating Economic Development through Transit Oriented Development, which will implement the recommendations outlined by the City of Phoenix in the 19North Transit Oriented Development Policy Plan.
  • A New Leaf, Inc.: $100,000 for A New Leaf's Workforce Development Services, which will expand service capacity through a Workforce Central program office location in Phoenix to promote and assist with employment, job readiness, and economic security for community members.
  • Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo: $150,000 (over three years) for The Pride Campaign-Predator Passage, the Predator Passage, the Africa Trail Expansion will be the Zoo's largest capital project to date, spanning six acres and resulting in an immersive experience for guests featuring new, up-close animal viewing of lions, hyenas, leopards, meerkats, wart hogs, fennec fox and more. To include educational components and conservation, species survival efforts.
  • Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels: $25,000 for the Moms Mentoring Program, which will provide mentoring for moms whose children are battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
  • Arizona Foundation for Women: $25,000 for the SHE Leads program, a Women's Leadership Development Certificate Program.
  • Assistance League of Phoenix: $50,000 for the Operation School Bell Wardrobes for Children in Poverty program, which will provide new school wardrobes, including a hygiene kit and new book to very low-income grade K-8 children attending over 90 Phoenix Metro Area high-poverty, Title 1 schools.
  • Arizona Helping Hands: $100,000 (over two years) for the Basic Needs Program, a signature program of Arizona Helping Hands by providing beds and other essential items for children in foster care so they can lead healthy and safe lives.
  • Arizona Humane Society: $500,000 (over two years) for Arizona Humane Society's Campaign to Transform Animal Welfare, which will transform Maricopa County from the second-worst place to be a homeless pet in the nation to the best, the Arizona Humane Society (AHS) proposes a replacement of its deteriorating Sunnyslope Campus with the Central Campus & Animal Medical Center. Working as a comprehensive system of care with the Nina Mason Pulliam Campus for Compassion, the Central Campus & Animal Medical Center will enhance AHS' life-saving abilities.
  • Arizona Science Center: $50,000 for the STEM Education Programs for Under Served Youth program, which will help deliver essential STEM education programs including Focused Field Trips and Science on Wheels to children from Title I schools in 2022.
  • Arizona Sustainability Alliance: $47,499 for the Sow It Forward: Vertical Garden Program, which will mitigate food insecurity by improving access to fresh, healthy produce and provide food and farmers market education to students in low-income and Title I K-12 schools.
  • Arizona Autism United: $120,000 (over two years) for the Bilingual Family Support Specialist to serve more local families affected by developmental disabilities and to strengthen access to critical service among under served communities.
  • Ballet Arizona: $30,000 (over three years) for the DanceAZ Program, which will deliver high-quality arts education during the next three school years, annually engaging approximately 100 low-income, under served students (grades 3-5) attending Maricopa County Title I elementary schools.
  • Banner Health Foundation: $500,000 (over three years) for the Center for Clinician Resiliency program, which will seek to build resiliency and reduce burnout in clinicians across their health care system. This project will reduce the stigma of mental/behavioral health concerns and build wellness into regular routines and work flows through education and training of resiliency champions, retreats, respite opportunities and counseling.
  • Barrow Neurological Foundation: $50,000 for The Barrow Concussion & Brain Injury Center Domestic Violence Program, which will provide medical treatment and community outreach support, in the form of cognitive retraining and education, for the victims of domestic violence, living in shelters, in Maricopa County.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona: $30,000 for the Making More Matches: Getting Youth off the Wait List program, which will provide youth mentoring.
  • Boys & Girls Club of the Valley (BGCAZ): $100,000 for the Safe, Healthy and Successful Kids Program, which will help to improve the academic success, life skills, safety, health and well-being of at least 10,000 youth attending BGCAZ's 24 Clubs throughout the Valley.
  • Boys Hope Girls Hope of Arizona: $35,000 for the Scholar Success program, which will help high achieving students living in poverty get to and through college.
  • Children's Museum of Phoenix: $300,000 (over three years) for the Children's Museum of Phoenix's Free First Friday Nights and Innovation Fund Initiatives. This initiative opens the museum to the public for ten free nights per year serving 25,000 people, as well their Innovation Fund, which enables the museum to routinely create and update imaginative and research-based exhibits, activities and programs.
  • Cihuapactli Collective: $300,000 (over three years) for the Nurturing Community Wellness through Comadrismo program, which will provide capacity building and general support aimed at promoting health and wellness among urban Indigenous Peoples.
  • Civitan Foundation, Inc.: $125,884 for the MIDTOWN: Employment and Life-Skills Opportunities for Developmentally Disabled Arizonans, which will address the disproportionate challenges and barriers to employment, displacement from quality programs due to the pandemic, and barriers to life-skills development that intellectually and developmentally disabled Arizonans face. Funding will support a large capital project at MIDTOWN that will transform the Northeastern corner of the Coronado Neighborhood, and provide major economic development for disabled Arizonans.
  • Duet: Partners in Health & Aging: $30,000 for the Support for Non-English-Speaking Kinship Families. Funding will help secure a full-time bilingual social worker to meet the increased demand of Duet's non-English speaking kinship families in crisis who need a coordinated approach to navigating the holistic needs of their families and provide case management to grand families in crisis.
  • Educare Arizona: $50,000 for the Child Development Association Certificate: A Two-Generation Anti-Poverty Program, which will enable low-income individuals, primarily mothers, to begin new careers while improving early childhood education for thousands of young children in Arizona.
  • Elevate Phoenix: $30,000 for the Improving the Lives and Futures of Low-Income Urban Youth and Families program, which will help Elevate Phoenix improve the academic success, life skills, literacy skills, health, well-being and future outcomes for low-income, at risk, urban youth and their families.
  • Esperanca, Inc.: $10,000 for the Health Literacy Education for Low-Income Latino Children, Adults, and Seniors program, which will support the delivery of health literacy programs regarding nutrition, physical activity, chronic disease self-management, such as diabetes, and oral health to reduce the prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and poor oral health that disproportionably affect low-income Latino children, adults, and seniors.
  • Foundation for Senior Living (FSL): $25,000 for the FSL Nutrition Program for Low-Income Seniors, which will support FSL's efforts to reduce food insecurity and improve the health outcomes of an estimated 1,000 unduplicated low-income seniors, adults with disabilities, and homebound adults through the provision of 70,000 hot, nutritious meals.
  • Furnishing Dignity: $20,000 for the Essential Home Furnishings program, which will provide complete home furnishings for low-income children, youth, adults and families successfully transitioning out of homelessness or foster care into self-reliance. Everyone deserves the comforts of home. Through in-kind donations of gently used home furnishings and community support, Furnishing Dignity's Essential Home Furnishings program makes this a reality for those on their pathway to self-sufficiency and success.
  • Girl-Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council: $25,000 for the Girl Scout Program, which will support Girl Scout programming that promotes academic achievement, mental wellness, and overall positive life outcomes for girls in Maricopa County.
  • Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation: $100,000 (over two years) for the Workforce Collaboratives program, which will strengthen the alignment between education and businesses, addressing the talent shortage for high wage, high demand careers and improving the economic prospects of 2,000 individuals.
  • Greater Phoenix Urban League, Inc.: $300,000 (over three years) for the Summer Youth Empowerment Program, which will support funding for a five-year program.
  • Hope Community Services: $25,000 for the Horses Healing Kids Equine Therapy Program, which will expand HCS's successful equine therapy for children who have experienced extreme trauma including severe violence, neglect and/or sexual, physical and emotional abuse.
  • Hushabye Nursery: $28,228 for the Healthy Families, Healthy Communities program, which will provide neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) infant and caregiver treatment for five families.
  • Justa Center: $30,000 for the Improving the Health of Homeless Seniors program which will hire a full-time nurse for Justa Center's on-site clinic to provide needed services for homeless seniors in Phoenix.
  • Life More Abundantly: $15,000 for the Family Health and Wellness STD Testing Program, which will support staffing, STD testing kits and processing, supplies, and brochures for STD testing in the South Phoenix Community where the rates are highest and the health care resources are scarce and costly.
  • Lights Camera Discover: $195,000 (over three years) for the Lights Camera Discover Youth STEAM Workshops, which will allow them to purchase much needed supplies to facilitate their youth programs and assist with program implementation.
  • Live and Learn Program: $20,000 for the COVID-19 Relief Program, which will provide funding to continue the COVID-19 Relief Program, the program offers women in poverty a path back to stability and employment, and demand remains high.
  • Los Ninos Hospital Inc., DBA Innovative Home Health Nursing Services: $64,348 (over two years) for the Home Health Nursing Technology Services, which will create efficiency and improve patient care by converting patient paper processes to patient electronic processes.
  • Lost Boys Center for Leadership Development: $205,500 (over three years) for the Youth Education & Leadership Development for Second-Generation Sudanese Refugees program, which will provide a breadth of educational, social, and leadership opportunities for second-generation Sudanese refugees so they may thrive within their families, schools, and Arizona communities.
  • Maggie's Place, Inc.: $40,000 for the Family Success Center for Homeless Pregnant Women program, which will provide supportive services to more than 250 mothers and children.
  • MentorKids USA: $20,000 for the iLEAD Program, which will help youth (9th - 12th grade) become leaders in their lives, their families, and their neighborhoods.
  • Million Dollar Teacher Project: $90,000 (over three years) for the Title 1 Tech program, which funding will be used to purchase and distribute computers, laptops, hotspots to disadvantaged students in the Phoenix metro area to facilitate their distance learning.
  • Native American Connections: $25,000 for the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center, which will provide funding for the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center, whose purpose is to tell the untold story of the Phoenix Indian School and its alumni to a wide community audience and to show how this story relates to larger history of American Indian Boarding schools and Indian history in the Southwest and nationally.
  • OCJ Kids: $25,000 for the Cuddle Bags Distribution program, which will reduce children's trauma after they are removed from abusive homes and as they transition into foster care.
  • Phoenix AKArama Foundation: $193,048 (over four years) for the Ultimate Technology Extra-Curricular Education Programs, which will provide extra-curricular educational programs for under-served communities with an emphasis on STEM education.
  • Phoenix Public Library Foundation: $100,000 for the Investing in Literacy, Learning and Creativity program, which will support Phoenix Public Library Foundation's Capital Campaign to bring exceptional preschool learning environments to our libraries. Funding would be used to improve and enhance Children's Place at Burton Barr Central Library. The first five years is a critical time in a child's life; 90 percent of a child's brain development happens by age five. Providing free, stimulating, and interactive environments for children is key to supporting school readiness skills. This funding would enhance and update the Storybook Garden at Burton Barr Central Library.
  • ResilientME, Inc.: $40,000 (over two years) for the R's of Resilient Me program, which will provide prevention programming rooted in evidence-based practices for developing resiliency to youth transitioning from foster care, a population particularly vulnerable to homelessness and incarceration.
  • Rosie's House: $100,000 (over four years) for the $5 million More than Music Campaign, which will support the purchase, renovation and equipping of a permanent facility that will help Rosie's House increase enrollment and create relevant programs that encourage young people from low-income neighborhoods to think critically, solve problems in inventive ways, collaborate, and ultimately become the well-rounded intellectual talent needed to ensure Arizona's future.
  • Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired (SAAVI): $35,000 for the Real Empowerment through Achievement and Learning (REAL) Program for Blind Children program, which will continue to expand educational programming for blind children throughout Phoenix.
  • SEED SPOT: $103,875 for the Accelerating Economic Recovery through Entrepreneurship program, which will ensure that entrepreneurs and small business owners in the Phoenix metro area can access the support they need to accelerate an equitable economic recovery.
  • SOUNDS Academy: $40,000 (over two years) for the Comprehensive Music Education program, which will extend high quality music education programming to 395 youth traditionally under-represented in classical music and under-served through music education opportunities in school.
  • St. Joseph the Worker: $15,000 for the Employment Without Barriers program, which will provide quality employment opportunities to individuals experiencing homelessness and those facing extreme poverty across Maricopa County.
  • St. Mary's Food Bank: $100,000 for the St. Mary's Food Bank Skills Center, which will improve the lives of homeless, formerly incarcerated, and other vulnerable people by training them for jobs in the food industry or a warehouse and helping with job placement.
  • Televerde Foundation: $100,000 (over two years) for the Prepare Achieve and Transform for Healthy Success (PATHS) program, a workforce development program for currently and formerly incarcerated women focusing on personal wellness, workplace readiness, employment strategies financial literacy, lifelong learning and mentoring.
  • The Opportunity Tree: $25,000 for the Youth Transition Program - Self Sufficiency for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) program, which will continue to expand the program and provide employment training for youth with IDD.
  • The Sagrado: $60,840 for the Conscious Development program, which will activate and replicate an outdoor meditation space created to connect community members with nature, each other, and themselves through healing arts.
  • Upward for Children and Families: $30,000 for the Lifting Children Upward Nursing Program, which will provide medically vulnerable children, and potentially adults, who have disabilities with on-site nursing care so they can attend Upward's Special Education School, Child Care program and Adult Day Treatment program.
  • USO Arizona: $90,000 (over three years) for USO Youth Programs and USO Phoenix Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS), which will strengthen and connect military service members and their families through programs and services that boost morale, provide a sense of community, and build resiliency among children and families. Funding will support USO Arizona's youth programming including Kids Camp programs (arts, recreation, and educational programs) and services for military service members through their Phoenix MEPS location.
  • Valley of the Sun YMCA: $50,000 (over two years) for the Childcare, Preschool, and Meal Programs for low-income Phoenix children program, which will provide childcare, preschool, and meals to children from low-income Phoenix families.
  • Year Up Arizona: $20,000 for the Supporting Youth Employment and Economic Mobility: Year Up Arizona's Workforce Development Program, which will support Year Up Arizona's core Academics, Program, and Student Services program elements to prepare their students to compete for careers and thrive in a rapidly evolving economy.

 

The gaming compact entered into 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 City Manager Ed Zuercher and the Office of Government Relations.