File #: 24-1363   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 6/12/2024 Final action: 6/12/2024
Title: Ak-Chin Indian Community 2024 Gaming Grant (Ordinance S-51032)
District: Citywide

Title

Ak-Chin Indian Community 2024 Gaming Grant (Ordinance S-51032)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $539,956 in new funding from the Ak-Chin Indian Community under the 2024 funding cycle. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept and the City Controller to disburse funds as directed by the Ak-Chin Indian Community in connection with these grants.

 

Report

Summary

If awarded, these monies would be applied, as directed by the Ak-Chin Indian Community towards the following:

 

City Applications

  • Housing Department: $5,000 for the After-School Enrichment project, which will improve the Aeroterra After-School program, which serves the underprivileged youth living in the City-owned housing community Aeroterra. The program provides after-school and summer camp programming.
  • Office of Heat Response and Mitigation: $50,000 for the second phase of the We're Cool communication campaign, which will fund summer outreach to prevent heat-related illness and death. The campaign promotes working with volunteers and caseworkers to distribute heat relief supplies, share information about community cooling resources, and connect residents to critical social services including shelter, housing, identification, food, hygiene facilities, and transportation.
  • Phoenix Fire Department: $49,956 for the Phoenix Stop the Bleed program, which will provide funding for bleeding control stations and kits that will be deployed in City buildings. Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign that trains the public to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives.
  • Phoenix Police Department: $50,000 for the Traffic Safety project, which will provide traffic control during an emergency to ensure the safe flow of traffic while minimizing risks to both officers and the public. By ensuring illuminated cones and flare patterns, first responders can provide a safe environment for emergency alternative routes around an emergency crime scene or serious vehicle collision.
  • Phoenix Police Department: $50,000 for the Heat Mitigation for Victims, Witnesses, and those in Custody project, which will allow the Phoenix Police Department to provide heavy duty, durable mobile cold storage units, water, and electrolyte products to law enforcement in efforts to aid the community and mitigate the lack of water during major and minor incidents that leave individuals in the Arizona summer months outside waiting on the investigation.
  • Phoenix Police Department: $50,000 for the Public Affairs Bureau Production Studio, which includes outfitting and maintaining a new media production studio to be used for communications of emergency and public safety messaging for the Phoenix Police Department.
  • Phoenix Public Library: $50,000 for the Early Literacy in an Underserved Community project, which will build a museum-quality early learning space at Harmon Library.
  • Phoenix Sister Cities: $30,000 for the Phoenix Sister Cities Annual Taipei Chinese Culture Summer Camp of Arizona, which will introduce Taiwanese culture to elementary school students in Phoenix.

 

Nonprofit Applications

  • Arizona Forward: $20,000 for the Emerging Sustainable Leadership program, which will enhance the program with more field trips, a volunteer/capstone project, and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Scholarship Fund with the Emerging Sustainable Leadership Education Project.
  • Foundation for Blind Children: $25,000 for the Braille Textbooks project, which will assist in the purchasing of 10 Braille textbooks for students who are blind or visually impaired from across Arizona.
  • Gabriel's Angels: $10,000 for the Pet Therapy program, which will provide pet therapy programming to vulnerable children and youth through partnerships with schools and child-serving agencies.
  • Liberty Wildlife: $100,000 for the Liberty Wildlife Environmental Education and Outreach program, which will engage in educational outreach working with K-12 public, private, and charter schools, in addition to groups of home-schooled children and other business and community groups.
  • MIKID Mentally Ill Kids in Distress: $50,000 for the Children's Behavioral Health Vehicle, which will allow it to provide transportation to families and children that would otherwise be unable to access behavioral health support.

 

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 Ak-Chin Indian Community will notify the City, by resolution of the Tribal Council, if it desires to convey to the nonprofit a portion of its annual 12 percent local revenue-sharing contribution.

 

Financial Impact

There is no budgeted 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.