File #: 20-1134   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 6/3/2020 Final action: 6/3/2020
Title: Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-46665)
District: Citywide

Title

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-46665)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $1,164,353 in new funding from Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation under the 2020 funding cycle. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, funds by Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation in connection with these grants.

 

Report

Summary

If awarded, these monies would be applied, as directed by Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation towards the following:

 

City Applications

  • Human Services Department - Business and Workforce Development Division: $145,200 for the Phoenix Youth R.I.S.E program, which will provide youth of Phoenix, ages 16 to 24, an opportunity to participate in a paid, five-week work experience/internship with a community business during the summer months. Funding will allow them to serve more youth and in turn support the economic and community development needs in Phoenix.
  • Housing Department: $43,375 for the Phoenix ConnectHome Technology Camp, a new project for 60 low-income public-school students who reside in three affordable housing communities. The two-week ConnectHome Technology Camp for students would provide Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) based learning activities and culminate with each student receiving a computer.
  • Office of Sustainability: $22,000 for the Rio Salado Tall Pot Tree Nursery, which will establish a low-cost sustainable nursery to propagate desert trees utilizing tall pot container methodology for public land projects.
  • Phoenix Fire Department: $78,592 for the Forcible Entry Door Prop Project, which will fund training props that teach techniques used to forcibly enter commercial grade, steel security doors.

 

Nonprofit Applications

  • American Indian Veterans Memorial Organization: $150,000 for the American Indian Veterans Memorial, which would build an American Indian Veterans Memorial at Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Arizona Humane Society: $50,000 for Arizona Humane Society's Large-Scale Animal Cruelty Investigations and Rescues, which will help underwrite a portion of their Emergency Animal Medical Technician program. Arizona Humane Society will be able to continue to address the public safety concern animal abuse and hoarding has in Maricopa County through the emergency animal rescue team.
  • Arizona Masters of Poetry: $16,300 for the Creative Collaborative Communication program, which will invigorate educational spaces, galvanize life-long learners and culturally-literate citizens, and deliver tools to support young people in crafting and sharing their stories. The program will also support youth to improve their confidence, writing skills, public speaking, performance skills and interpersonal skills.
  • Aunt Rita's Foundation: $10,000 for Aunt Rita's HIV Prevention, Education, and Outreach Programs, whose primary goal is to provide more than 40,000 Arizonans annually, both HIV positive and HIV negative, with the information that is required to 1) Prevent HIV transmission, 2) Promote HIV testing, 3) Provide resources to access healthcare, medications, housing, substance use treatment, legal aid, and dozens of other services that improve health outcomes and quality of life.
  • Center for the Future of Arizona: $75,000 for five Education and Workforce Initiatives which aims to increase statewide prosperity and individual opportunity, improve civic health, and build a sense of place where all Arizonans connect and thrive. The five initiatives are Beat the Odds School Leadership Academy, Arizona Personalized Learning Network, Arizona Pathways to Prosperity, Participatory Budgeting and RetailWorks AZ. 
  • Creighton Community Foundation (CCF): $148,874 for the Creighton Community Gardens Program, which will build on existing community services provided by CCF and utilize community gardens to mitigate the detrimental effects of food deserts and enable families and community members with the resources, education, and training necessary to achieve healthy lifestyles.
  • Desert Oasis Elementary School: $150,012 for the Desert Oasis Elementary School Preschool Program Expansion Project, which would provide the funding necessary to open an additional high-quality preschool program, adjacent to their current 5 Star Quality First/First Things First preschool program, with the capacity to serve another 36 children four days per week, for the school year.
  • Esperanca Inc.: $25,000 for the Esperanca Health Literacy Education for Low-Income Latino Children, Parents, and Seniors project, which conducts an evidence-based health literacy and disease management programs to empower low-income Latino children, parents and seniors to improve their health outcomes.
  • Foundation for Senior Living: $50,000 for the Aging in Place in Health and Dignity programs, which will support in-home and community-based programs and services that promote aging in place for seniors, adults with disabilities, and other vulnerable individuals, such as adults with severe mental illnesses. These individuals can live with their loved ones in their homes rather than be admitted to long-term care facilities.
  • Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus Pine Council: $25,000 for Girl Scout Programming, which would fund the Girl Scout program during out-of-school time that supports leadership development that complements academic goals for K-12 girls.
  • New Pathways for Youth: $50,000 for the Mentor Program Expansion Project, which will assist in doubling their footprint and serve more high-risk youth in Phoenix experiencing homelessness, poverty and adversity through targeted expansion and capacity building of all program elements to meet the needs of the new communities served.
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona, Inc.: $25,000 for the Help-A-Family program, which will fund temporary housing and support services for families staying at Ronald McDonald House while their children receive pediatric care at Phoenix-area medical facilities.
  • Scott Foundation: $35,000 for the Finding True Self-Wellness Retreat Scholarships program, working in association with youth and wellness organizations, their program experiences provide ongoing support that help teens remove the layers of self-doubt that prevent them from discovering the wealth of love, joy and potential within each of them. Practicing social wellness and self-care is not just in times of crisis, but an everyday need for the under-served population of Arizona foster youth.
  • Swift Youth Foundation: $5,000 for the Swift Youth Foundation After School Program, which will expand their education and youth development After School and Out of School programs. These programs include Swift After School, Swift Saturday, Club Swift Jr., Swift Leadership Camp, Swift in the Summer and Swift Carnival (programs generally offered after school and some weekends), primarily serve children 8 to 11 years old.
  • Valley of the Sun YMCA: $20,000 for the YMCA Lifeguard Academy and Childhood Drowning Prevention program, which will provide training to teens to be protectors in the community - to both prevent drownings and to gain life-long experiences that will prepare them for future jobs. The YMCA Lifeguard Academy develops leaders who have the skills needed to respond to one of Arizona's most pressing needs - reducing the number of drownings, especially with children.
  • Year Up Arizona: $40,000 for the Supporting Year Up Arizona: An Investment in Phoenix's Opportunity Youth program, which will support Year Up Arizona's direct service workforce development program, including each component of their program model, directly contributing to the learning and development of up to 240 students enrolling in their program.  

 

 

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 education, public safety, health, environment, economic and community development. The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation 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 Fund dollars are required. Entities that receive gaming grants are responsible for the management of those funds.

 

Department

Responsible Department

This item is submitted by Assistant City Manager Deanna Jonovich and the Office of Government Relations.