File #: 19-2026   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 8/28/2019 Final action: 8/28/2019
Title: Tohono O'odham Nation Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-45964)
District: Citywide

Title

Tohono O'odham Nation Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-45964)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $1,289,448 in new funding from the Tohono O'odham Nation. Further request authorization for the City Treasurer to accept, and the City Controller to disburse, funds as directed by the Tohono O'odham Nation in connection with these grants.

 

Report

Summary

These monies would be applied, as directed by the Tohono O'odham Nation, towards the following:

 

Non-Profit Applications

  • Ballet Arizona: $21,714 to fund DanceAZ, an innovative partnership with local schools that brings arts education to underserved students.
  • Aguila Youth Leadership: $30,000 to implement the Aguila Academy in four Phoenix Elementary schools.
  • Arizona Educational Foundation: $25,000 to fund four programs; teachSTEM, A+ School of Excellence, Arizona Spelling Bee and Principals Leadership Academy of Arizona. These programs address the need in Arizona to focus on successes and models that aid teachers, administrators and schools to be successful.
  • Arizona Science Center: $75,000 for STEM Education Opportunities for Underrepresented Youth & Community Members. Funding will engage 5,600 students and teachers from Title I schools.
  • Banner Health Foundation: $150,000 to expand the successful Family Centered Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Care Program which supports new mothers with substance use disorder and their infants.
  • Catholic Charities Community Services: $100,000 for the Head Start Duration project which will provide additional educational and learning opportunities to over 700 students by increasing the number of hours the head start programs operate daily and in more locations.
  • Daring Adventures: $48,412 for the Collaborative Recreation Program which will provide inclusive recreational activities for Arizona residents with disabilities. The goal of the program is to empower the lives of all Arizona residents with and without disabilities through healthy recreation.
  • Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council: $10,000 to support the Social Impact programs. Funds will allow girls in underserved communities to experience what Girl Scouts has to offer.
  • Heard Museum: $10,000 for the Heard Educator Support programs which gives K-12 educators much needed support in their efforts to accurately teach youth about American Indian subject matter through free initiatives.
  • Keep Phoenix Beautiful: $10,000 for the Community Garden program which will fund two garden sites established in low-and-limited income areas.
  • Keeping Teachers Teaching, Inc.: $75,000 for the National Youth Education program, a mentorship-based program that will hopefully inspire more students to enter into the education field after high school.
  • Orchard Community Learning Center: $50,000 for the Spaces of Opportunity program which will provide families in South Phoenix with economic and livelihood opportunities as well as affordable access to healthy food.
  • Phoenix Indian Center: $10,000 for the Native Games-A Community Partnership that Promotes a Healthy Lifestyle, a unique education module about physical fitness and health, grounded by teaching about traditional American Indian games and sports.
  • Project Veterans Pride: $30,000 for The James Walton Home Program which is a 30-60-90 day program to initially provide immediate shelter and safety to American homeless veterans and the long term goal is to aid in restoration of hope, pride and dignity for all that served.
  • Reigning Grace Ranch: $150,000 for the Veterans Program to provide additional services to assist with PTSD and other unique items for the veteran population.
  • Shemer Art Center: $7,511 for the Summer Art Camp which will help grow their pottery and ceramics educational classes.
  • St. Joseph the Worker: $5,000 for the Employment Heals Communities support and development program. It will provide homeless and impoverished job seekers in Phoenix and across Maricopa County with the respect, support and resources needed to secure quality employment, regain their self-sufficiency and improve the health and well being of themselves, their families and their communities.
  • Treasures 4 Teachers: $15,000 to provide free and low cost supplies from the community's reusable resources to teachers from Title 1 schools.
  • USO Arizona: $15,000 for the Economic Impact Support Programs to Military Members and Families which will enable the USO to affect transformative change in the lives and goals of service members and their families living in Arizona.

 

 

 

City Applications

  • City of Phoenix Human Services Department: $150,000 for the Phoenix Youth R.I.S.E. (Reach and Invest in Summer Employment) program which will place 51 youth in internships.
  • City of Phoenix Housing Department: $45,000 for the Performing and Digital Arts program in partnership with Lights Camera Discover to provide afterschool, summer and weekend workshops for youth living in the Edison-Eastlake and Central City South Communities.
  • City of Phoenix Office of Environmental Programs: $121,400 for the Phoenix "Grow It Yourself" Gardens Project which focuses on community empowerment to enhance and sustain existing community gardens, to provide opportunities to create new community gardens and develop data that analyzes the economic and social contributions to the food system of existing and potential garden spaces.
  • City of Phoenix Fire Department: $97,971 for training and equipment necessary to respond to bulk flammable fuel fires for large fixed storage tanks within the Phoenix region.
  • City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department: $37,440 to expand the WalkPHX program under the FitPHX initiative by installing 18 trail counters at the remaining walking paths that currently do not have trail counters.

 

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.

 

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.