File #: 20-0966   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 5/6/2020 Final action: 5/6/2020
Title: Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-46584)
District: Citywide

Title

Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-46584)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $7,856,137 in new funding from the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) under the 2020 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

  • Human Services Department-Business and Workforce Development: $300,000 (over three years) for the Family Centered Employment Initiative, which will provide parents of young children the opportunity to secure a living wage while being actively engaged in their child's development and education.
  • Human Services Department: $183,030 (over three years) for the Phoenix Family Advocacy Center Crime Victim Assistance Program, funds will be used to purchase clothing, gift cards, and bus passes for victims of crime.
  • Neighborhood Services Department: $300,000 (over two years) for the Vulnerable Neighborhood Shade Program, which will provide cool shade corridors in vulnerable communities to increase the well-being of residents.
  • Phoenix Fire Department: $69,746 for the Special Events Emergency Response Vehicles project, which will purchase a dedicated small profile ambulance for providing emergency medical response coverage from within special events with limited vehicle access due to crowd congestion or space restrictions.
  • Phoenix Police Department: $300,000 for the Personal Protective Equipment project, funding will be used to provide personal protective equipment, in the form of respiratory protection, for front line law enforcement officers to ensure their ability to fulfill their duties of protecting and serving the community even in the presence of hazardous materials.
  • Public Transit Department: $80,000 for the 302 N. 1st Ave. 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 Ave. (Public Transit headquarters) parking garage.
  • Public Transit Department: $399,344 for the Transit Spot Improvement Program, which will improve public transit infrastructure in areas of importance with a focus on equity.

 

Non-Profit Applications

  • Ability360/Arizona ADA Coalition: $17,000 for the Arizona ADA Coalition Conference, which will supply ADA accommodations and scholarships for people with disabilities attending the conference.
  • Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/Phoenix Zoo: $250,000 (over three years) for The Pride Campaign-Africa Trail Expansion, which 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, red river hogs, primates and more. To include educational components and conservation, species survival efforts.
  • American Indian Veterans Memorial Organization: $150,000 for the American Indian Veterans Memorial monument at Steele Indian School Park.
  • Arizona Autism Charter Schools, Inc.: $498,000 (over three years) for the Arizona Autism Charter Center to build out the school's gym and fitness center, vocational training cafe and vocational training thrift store to serve 350 students with autism attending the charter school, as well as their families and the greater autism and special needs community.
  • Arizona Masters of Poetry: $30,388 for the Building Bridges 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. To support youth to improve their writing skills, public speaking and performance skills, confidence, and interpersonal skills.
  • Arizona Science Center: $50,000 for STEM Education Programs for Underserved Youth, funds will be used to provide 3,750 underserved youth with access to engaging learning opportunities that foster a foundation of pursuing post-secondary education programs and meaningful careers in STEM fields.
  • Arizona Sustainability Alliance: $70,075 for the Sow It Forward: Vertical Garden Program, which will implement an experiential school program that improves access to healthy, local food in low-income "food desert" regions by installing classroom gardens, providing concomitant curriculum material, and supporting on-campus farmers markets.
  • Assistance League of Phoenix: $50,000 for expansion of the Operation School Bell program, which provides 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 I schools.
  • Aunt Rita's Foundation: $20,000 (over two years) for Aunt Rita's HIV Prevention, Education, and Outreach Programs, which support the delivery of programs to thousands of Arizonans to empower them to prevent the transmission of HIV through testing, antiretroviral therapy, pre-/-post exposure therapy, and behavioral interventions. The programs are necessary to address the unusually high numbers of new HIV diagnoses in the state.
  • Ballet Arizona: $30,000 (over three years) for the DanceAZ program, which will offer movement-based arts education that assists in developing 21st Century skills to 100 underserved students through a free dance residency program at Valley schools and community organizations each year.
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of East Valley-Metro Phoenix: $150,000 for the Improving Kids' STEM Skills and Futures program, which will improve low-income, at-risk and other youths' science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in order to improve their school grades and achievement, keep them in school, advance to post-secondary education, and secure a well-paying job and a brighter future.
  • Cihuapactli Collective: $300,000 (over three years) for the Cuatro Flechas Model of Community Wellness program, which will promote culturally-relevant training for community members throughout Maricopa County.
  • Cihuapactli Collective: $265,000 for The Collective Wellness Center, which will create a physical space in the community of South Phoenix where traditional knowledge, ancestral foods and healing can be combined and available for urban Indigenous Peoples.
  • Civitan Foundation, Inc.: $167,000 for the Civitan MIDTOWN Capital Expansion and Renovation Project: New Commercial Kitchen, which will support the build out, renovation and purchase of large and small appliances for a new commercial kitchen at Civitan MIDTOWN, Civitan's second program location coming to Phoenix, AZ. This commercial kitchen will support employment opportunities for individuals with developmental disabilities and serve as the primary conduit for catering social enterprise and bistro and AZ Department of Education Health and Summer Food Service program which provides healthy, nutritious meals to Title I low-income youth in the surrounding communities.
  • Duet: Partners in Health and Aging: $80,000 (over two years) for the Aging with Dignity: Providing Transportation to Homebound Seniors program, which will enable Duet to provide at least 26,000 one-way escorted trips to medical appointments, grocery stores and other places at no cost to low-income, homebound seniors who can no longer drive and have no family members or other people who can drive them.
  • Educare Arizona: $50,000 for the Child Development Associate 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: $60,000 (over two years) for the Improving Urban Youths' Safety, Mental Health and Academic Achievement program, which will provide 4,750 at-risk Native American, Hispanic, and other at-risk, urban youth in the first year of funding, and 4,850 in the second year, with the tools they need to improve their academic achievement and safety, and the support and assistance to improve their mental health and well-being.
  • Foundation for Blind Children: $150,000 (over three years) for the Foundation for Blind Children Preschool, which is seeking support for preschool classrooms.
  • Foundation for Senior Living: $15,000 for the Foundation for Senior Living Nutrition Program for Low-Income Seniors, which will support the preparation and delivery of more than 50,000 nutritious meals to an estimated 600 low-income, food-insecure seniors thereby improving their health outcomes.
  • Fresh Start Women's Foundation: $50,000 for the Upward Mobility program which will empower low-income, under-employed women in Phoenix to improve their career readiness and secure careers that provide self-sufficient wages.
  • Genesis City: $500,000 (over two years) for the City Capital Campaign, to secure the long-term home of Genesis City at 525 E. McDowell Road in Phoenix.
  • Girl Scouts Arizona Cactus Pine Council: $25,000 for the Girl Scouts Social Impact Programs, which will support the alternative program delivery method for girls who face barriers to accessing high-quality extracurricular activities in the greater-Phoenix area.
  • Heard Museum: $15,000 for the Educator Support Programs, which will offer free professional development opportunities and curriculum support for Arizona's educators.
  • Homeward Bound: $42,000 for the Empowering Homeless Families: Workforce Development program, which will support homeless parents in GED completion and gaining employment/job skills, to increase their economic security and stability to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
  • Hushabye Nursery: $46,200 for the Healthy Babies, Strong Families program, which will improve health outcomes and increase responsive caregiving and economic stability for substance exposed babies and their caregivers.
  • Keep Phoenix Beautiful: $15,000 for the Community Garden Multigenerational Learning program which pairs elementary students from schools surrounding the Mountain View Park Community Garden with seniors and teens from the Sunnyslope Community Center. Meeting regularly in the garden, they work together to increase knowledge and awareness of the nutritional value of growing and eating fresh foods and regularly exercising. Keep Phoenix Beautiful plans to increase the reach of this program by making physical improvements to the garden with increase accessibility among seniors as well as engaging more school children with a comprehensive, formalized curriculum.
  • Kid in The Corner: $25,000 for the Helping the Kid in the Corner: Mental Health Awareness and Suicide Prevention program, which will increase the number of K-12 students who receive suicide prevention and mental health awareness education in Valley schools.
  • Lights Camera Discover: $195,000 (over three years) for the LCD Youth STEAM Workshops, which will fund items and supplies to facilitate youth programs and assist with the cost of program implementation.
  • Live and Learn Program: $150,000 (over two years) for the Economic Empowerment Program Expansion, which will increase program capacity to serve an additional 50 women whose lives have been affected by poverty, violence, and homelessness.
  • Lost Boys Center for Leadership Development: $180,000 (over three years) for the Healthy Futures program, which will support the mental health and well-being of Sudanese refugees and their families living in Greater Phoenix.
  • Maggie's Place, Inc.: $40,000 for the Healthy Moms, Healthy Families program, which will provide trauma-informed counseling, accelerated resolution therapy, and substance abuse peer support for homeless pregnant and parenting women at Maggie's Place.
  • Million Dollar Teacher Project: $300,000 (over three years) for the Million Dollar Teacher Project-Teacher Retention and Recruitment Programming, which will cover costs related to effective program implementation, including the purchase of supplies, staffing and covering other program related costs.
  • Mir'Ra IMAGE, INC.: $412,500 for the Mir'Ra IMAGE Project Phase 1, which is to construct and build 16,800 square feet eco-friendly, climate change building.
  • New Pathways for Youth: $150,000 (over three years) for the Mentor Program Expansion Project, which will double their footprint and serve more high-risk youth in Phoenix through targeted expansion and capacity building of all program elements to meet the needs of the new communities served.
  • Opportunity, Community & Justice for Foster (OCJ) Kids: $30,000 for the InterACT Project: Improving Foster Children's Health, Safety and Development program, which will improve the physical and emotional health, safety and development of formerly abused youth who are transitioning to, or residing in, foster group homes.
  • Orchard Community Learning Center: $120,076 (over two years) for the building resilient community through a food forest for South Phoenix project, which is a pilot project creating livelihoods, business development, education and healthy food. 
  • Phoenix Art Museum: $80,000 (over two years) for the Expanding Communities Initiative, which will support programming, educator professional development and student tours at the Phoenix Art Museum.
  • Phoenix Girls Chorus: $15,000 for Phoenix Girls Chorus Programming, which will empower young women through leadership, community service, and music.
  • Phoenix Public Library Foundation: $250,000 (over two years) for the Phoenix Library Foundation-Investing in Literacy, Learning and Creativity for Children, which will support the Phoenix Public Library Foundation's Capital Campaign to bring exceptional preschool learning environments to 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.
  • Phoenix Rescue Mission: $150,000 (over three years) for the PRM Health program, which will provide needed health care services for homeless women and children residing in the Changing Lives Center (CLC) shelter and for men, as they reside in the Transforming Lives Center (TLC) as all work towards recovery and long-term self-sufficiency.
  • Phoenix Symphony Association: $150,000 (over two years) for the Music Education Partnership Program, which will support music education in schools in underserved neighborhoods.
  • Raising Special Kids: $112,500 (over two years) for the Peer Support Specialist for Families of Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs, which will create a staff position for a peer support specialist who will serve families of children with disabilities and special health care needs, improving their mental and physical health.
  • River of Dreams dba Daring Adventures: $103,278 (over three years) for the River Rampage and Mainstream Expeditions, which will provide an opportunity for youth and adults living with disabilities to see the world outside of their own backyards, to contemplate their lives, to play, and learn healthy risk taking for their own development and to experience teamwork and trust with members of their community.
  • 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.
  • Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired (SAAVI): $30,000 for the Reaching Empowerment through Achievement and Learning Program for Blind Children, which will continue to expand educational programming for blind children throughout Phoenix.
  • Scott Foundation: $25,000 for the Outdoor Education Center, which will fund a healing water garden/ecosystem wildlife pond.
  • Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center: $170,000 (over two years) for Intensive Parent Training and Community Outreach, which will offer an evidence-based parent training program for families living in rural or remote areas of Arizona who support a young child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and provide outreach, training, resources, and education to community organizations in rural and remote areas throughout the state.
  • St. Joseph the Worker: $10,000 for the Employment without Barriers program, which will make it possible for everyone who wants to work to be able to gain quality employment. Funding will go towards providing the individualized support that will remove barriers to that end.
  • Stand for Children Leadership Center: $10,000 for Every Child Reads program, which will continue and deepen Every Child Reads at-home reading program.
  • The Opportunity Tree: $20,000 for the Youth Transitions Program for Children with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities program, which will prepare youth with developmental disabilities for successful transitions from high school to the adult world.
  • Upward for Children and Families: $75,000 for the Pediatric Therapy for Low-Income Children with Disabilities program, which will provide funding for low-income children who have disabilities and few options for therapy services, with speech, occupational, feeding and music therapy so they can reach their maximum potential.
  • Valley of the Sun United Way: $150,000 for the Accelerate School Readiness program, which will ensure children and youth succeed by helping students start school ready to learn.
  • Valley of the Sun YMCA: $75,000 (over three years) for the Safety Around Water and Swim Lessons for low-income children in Phoenix program, which will teach children ages 3-12 to be safe in and around water.
  • Year Up Arizona: $75,000 for the Supporting Phoenix's Opportunity Youth: Investing in Year Up's Workforce Development Program, the investment will support Year Up Arizona's direct service workforce development program, including each component of our program model, directly contributing to the learning and development of up to 240 students enrolling in the program during the grant period.

 

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 Assistant City Manager Deanna Jonovich and the Office of Government Relations.