File #: 24-1231   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 6/12/2024 Final action: 6/12/2024
Title: Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation 2024 Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-51010)
District: Citywide

Title

Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation 2024 Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-51010)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $225,000 in new funding from Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation under the 2024 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:

 

Nonprofit Applications

  • Advance Community: $10,000 for the Food as Medicine program, which will provide health education for individuals with Type II or pre-diabetes through the Education Empowerment program, as well as provide healthy food boxes (Food as Medicine program) designed specifically for individuals with diabetes and under-resourced Latino families.
  • Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels: $25,000 for the Comfort and Care program, which will provide mental health services for children experiencing cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, and their families.
  • Arizona Association for Foster and Adoptive Parents: $25,000 for the Embracing Foster, Kinship and Adoptive Families program, which will provide support for foster, kinship, and adoptive families.
  • Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children: $10,000 for the Improving Outcomes for Low-Income Children with Cancer and Their Families program, which will provide social, emotional, and financial support to primarily low-income children who have cancer and their families.
  • Arizona Educational Foundation: $20,000 for the teachSTEM program, which is an early intervention program that provides both access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning for students and builds awareness about the need for STEM teachers and job opportunities in mainstream STEM fields.
  • Arizona Forward: $50,000 for the Arizona Forward: A Grant for Sustainable Progress and Community Impact project, which is a comprehensive funding initiative to support the organization's overarching mission covering programs, operations, events, and essential functions aimed at fostering sustainable development and making a positive impact on communities throughout the state.
  • Arizona Science Center: $10,000 for the Arizona Science Center Focused Field Trips and Science On Wheels initiatives, which focus on STEM learning programs for low-income children from Title 1 schools in the 2024-25 academic year.
  • Banner Health Foundation: $35,000 for Banner Health's Injury Prevention - Safety Town program, which is a free mobile educational tool that reaches both adult and child audiences, statewide.
  • Gabriel's Angels: $10,000 for the Pet Therapy program, which will ensure vulnerable children receive critical assistance in developing reading skills, ensure success in school and assist in developing core behaviors that will prevent at-risk behaviors as adults.
  • Heard Museum: $10,000 for the Heard Museum K-12 Free Admission and School Tours program, which will provide arts education, particularly American Indian art and culture, for Arizona school children and educators.
  • Kid in the Corner: $10,000 for the Penny Pledge Youth Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Awareness program, which will provide suicide prevention and mental health awareness education to grade 4-12 students.
  • Tooth B.U.D.D.S., Inc.: $10,000 for the Phoenix School and Site-Based Oral Health program, which will improve oral health of low-income, at-risk populations by providing preventive dental hygiene health care services for children preK-12, using evidence-based clinical best practices to include oral hygiene education, screenings, intraoral camera images, dental cleanings, sealants, fluoride treatment, and silver diamine fluoride application.

 

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 service that benefit the public, including education, public safety, health, environment and community development. The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation will notify the City, by intergovernmental agreement of the Tribal Council, if it desires to convey to the City or local nonprofits a portion of its annual 12 percent local revenue sharing contribution.

 

Financial Impact

There is no budgetary impact to the City 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 City Manager Jeffrey Barton and the Office of Government Relations.