File #: 22-0173   
Type: Ordinance-S Status: Adopted
Meeting Body: City Council Formal Meeting
On agenda: 7/1/2022 Final action: 7/1/2022
Title: Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-48829)
District: Citywide

Title

Gila River Indian Community Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-48829)

 

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and, if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $4,880,618.34 in new funding from the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) under the 2022 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

  • Community and Economic Development: $152,577 (over three years) for the Mobile Career Unit, which will fund software and licenses for the public's use while on board the Mobile Career Unit.
  • Office of Sustainability: $200,000 (over two years) for the Electric Vehicle Outreach and Education Program, which will provide public education to improve attitudes about and increase usage of electric vehicles.
  • Phoenix Fire Department: $76,189.42 for the Special Events Emergency Response Apparatus, which will enhance emergency medical response capabilities within the footprint of special events with limited vehicle access due to crowd congestion or space restriction.  

 

Non-Profit Applications

  • A Stepping Stone Foundation: $100,000 (over two years) for the Literacy Elevates Arizona Families (LEAF) program, which will help fund two-generation education (preschool, parent and adult education) with home visiting.
  • Amanda Hope Rainbow Angels: $25,000 for the Moms Mentoring Program, which will provide mentoring for moms whose children are battling cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
  • Arizona Educational Foundation: $25,000 for the Our World: Educators for Indigenous Students program, which will provide free training for Phoenix-area schools in how to better serve Indigenous students and their families.
  • Arizona Humane Society: $100,000 for the Saving Animals from Large-Scale Hoarding Cases program, which will provide medical treatment to animals removed from hazardous and unsafe large-scale hoarding cases and maintain a fleet of animal ambulances used to transport the animals to the Second Chance Animal Trauma Hospital. Funding will help Emergency Animal Medical Technicians continue to support Phoenix Law Enforcement and provide lifesaving medical care to animals rescued from inhumane conditions.
  • Arizona Pet Project: $45,000 for the Bonded Family Project, which will remove barriers to care and create pet-health equity among families in need.
  • Arizona Science Center: $50,000 for STEM Learning Programs for Low-Income Children, which will provide free focused field trips and Science on Wheels STEM learning programs for 3,700 low-income children from Title 1 schools in the 2022-2023 school year.
  • Arizona Sustainability Alliance: $206,148 (over three years) for the Sow It Forward: Vertical Garden Program, which will support the continued growth of the Sow It Forward program and help expand into new school districts across the state.
  • Assistance League of Phoenix: $50,000 for the Operation School Bell Wardrobes for Children in Poverty program, which will help expand to meet a growing need. Operation School Bell provides new school wardrobes, including a hygiene kit and new book, to very low-income grade K-8 children attending Phoenix Metro Area high-poverty, Title 1 schools.
  • Aunt Rita's Foundation: $15,000 (over two years) for the HIVAZ Connect program, which will support HIVAZ Connect, Aunt Rita's statewide information and referral program, which provides HIV negative and positive individuals with information to prevent HIV transmission, and connects people living with HIV to treatment, assistance with housing, medications, etc.
  • Ballet Arizona: $30,000 (over three years) for the Ballet Arizona's DanceAZ School Residency Program, which will support the DanceAZ School Residency Program, helping them partner with five Title 1 elementary schools in Maricopa County to provide under-served youth with a consistent, high-quality arts education.
  • Banner Health Foundation: $400,000 (over two years) for the Substance Use Telehealth for Arizona Rural Communities program, which will expand Banner Health's evidence-based, multidisciplinary substance use disorder treatment model to rural communities through a combination of in-person and telegraph integrated care.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Arizona: $50,000 for the West Phoenix Site-Based and Community-Based Mentoring program, which will provide mentoring to at-risk youth in West Phoenix.
  • Central Arizona Shelter Services: $225,000 (over three years) for the Project Haven for Seniors Experiencing Homelessness program, which will support homeless shelter and wrap-around services for seniors in Phoenix, Arizona.
  • Children's Museum of Phoenix: $270,000 (over three years) for the Children's Museum of Phoenix's Free First Friday Nights program, which will open the museum to the public for ten free nights and serving over 25,000 people per year and to establish the IDEA Fellows Program by providing two paid fellowships for individuals facing barriers and promoting diverse perspectives in their field.
  • Chrysalis Veterans Services, Inc.: $300,000 (over three years) for the Improving Economic Security by Strengthening the Veteran's Job Readiness program, which provides funding to assist veterans to ensure their economic security, and can consistently meet their essential needs in a sustainable manner and with dignity. The program provides funding to assist with the material needs of the veteran so they can be job ready.
  • Civitan Foundation, Inc.: $75,884 for the Civitan MIDTOWN - Economic Mobility and Transportation program, which will provide economic development opportunities for special needs Arizonans through the new Civitan MIDTOWN property on Thomas Road and 16th Street, which will provide job skills training, social enterprise employment, economic stimulus through goods sold, and provide no-cost transportation for special needs Arizonans to attend job opportunities and regular employment.
  • Creighton Community Foundation: $74,110.92 for the Native Foods and Flora Activity Center on the Phoenix Grand Canalscape program, which will assist in the creation of the Native Foods and Flora Activity Center for food and environmental education.
  • Duet: Partners in Health and Aging: $30,000 for the Improving the Health and Wellness of Vulnerable Seniors program, which will help Duet provide a variety of services (grocery shopping assistance, transport to medical appointments, etc.) through its caring volunteers that meet the basic and other needs of homebound seniors so they can remain in their homes and out of assistive living for as long as possible.
  • 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: $30,000 for the Improving At-Risk Youths' Academic Success and Futures program, which will improve the academic success, life skills, literacy skills, well-being, and future outcomes of low-income, at-risk urban youth.
  • Foundation for Senior Living (FSL): $15,000 for the FSL Nutrition Program for Under-Resourced Aging Adults program, which will support FSL's efforts to reduce food insecurity among under-resourced aging adults, 60+ years of age and older.
  • Fresh Start Women's Foundation: $50,000 for The Impact Program: Helping Women Achieve Self-Sufficiency program, which will empower women to achieve self-sufficiency through an evidence-informed, holistic approach that focuses on job-readiness, career training (including entrepreneurship, for those interested), and employment in well-paying careers.
  • Furnishing Dignity: $100,000 for the Essential Home Furnishings Program Expansion, which will provide whole home furnishings to low-income children, adults and families as they successfully exit shelter and transition to permanent housing. Funding will consolidate storage units into one large warehouse space with loading dock, and purchase a second gently used moving truck and program supplies to support significant increases in donated home furnishings and demand for services.
  • Girl Scouts-Arizona Cactus-Pine Council: $15,000 for the Girl Scout Program, which will support Girl Scout programming that promotes academic achievement, mental wellness, and overall positive life outcomes for girls in Maricopa County.
  • Greater Phoenix Chamber Foundation: $60,000 (over two years) for the ElevateEdAZ program, which will support the strategic education and workforce initiative ElevateEdAZ, which drives cross-sector innovation to identify and solve Arizona's education to employment pathway issues. Funding will help deliver high-quality work-based learning opportunities to students in the Greater Phoenix region and beyond, preparing them to enter high-wage, high-skill, and high-demand careers and graduate with industry-recognized credentials and early postsecondary credit, and garner meaningful work-based learning experiences with business professionals to strengthen and diversify the Greater Phoenix region's workforce.
  • Hacienda, Inc.: $50,000 for the Hacienda Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Enhancements program, which will rehabilitate a new group home purchase into an ADA compliant group home and convert other group home bathtub bathrooms into floor level showers for its clients/residents who are wheelchair mobile.
  • Hacienda, Inc.: $30,000 for the Hacienda Roof Repairs and Renovations project, which will repair areas of the roof where leaks have been identified. Each year the leaks get worse and new leaks appear. The roof affects client areas where some programs are held.
  • Hacienda, Inc.: $21,000 for the Hacienda Wheelchair Accessible Minivans project, which funding will support the matching requirement of the Federal Transportation Administration 5310 program to purchase two minivans for their group homes.
  • Heard Museum: $25,000 for the Native Veterans Exhibition - "Unconquered: A Legacy of Service",  which will fund the creation and implementation of a special exhibition dedicated to American Indian veterans in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Heard Museum's American Indian Veterans Memorial.
  • Homeward Bound: $50,000 for the Empowering Today, Building Tomorrow project, which will support families facing or experiencing homelessness in GED completion and gaining employment/job skills, so they can increase their economic security and stability to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness.
  • Hope Community Services: $30,000 for the Trauma Therapy for Low-Income Children and Youth program, which will support Hope Community Services' (HCS) specialized trauma therapy program for low-income children who have experienced extreme, ongoing trauma. HCS' individualized therapies wrap children, and when appropriate, their caregivers, in supportive services to increase their chances of healing, getting back on a normal development path, and preventing long-term trauma-related problems.
  • Hushabye Nursery: $15,000 for the Hope for the Tiniest Victims of the opioid crisis program, which will improve health outcomes from the Arizona opioid crisis.
  • Life More Abundantly Pregnancy/Family Resource Center: $50,000 for the Decreasing Pregnancy Complications and STD risks in South Phoenix program, which will support the healthcare staffing, supplies, and occupancy costs.
  • Live and Learn Program: $20,000 for the Economic Empowerment for Women Program, which offers women living in poverty a path to stability and employment.
  • Los Ninos Hospital, Inc. dba Innovative Home Health Nursing Services: $34,131 for the Home Health Technology Services program, which will improve the quality of patient care for home health services by using technology systems that increase efficiency in medical records management, speed, and accuracy.
  • Maggie's Place, Inc.: $40,000 for the Stability-4-Families program, which will provide stability services to 250+ moms/children.
  • MentorKids USA: $23,000 for the iLEAD My Generation program, which will support an innovative high school mentoring and leadership development program.
  • Mission of Mercy: $25,000 for the Access to Health Care for Uninsured Families program, to provide free primary medical care to uninsured families so they can manage acute and chronic illnesses, thereby avoiding preventable hospital visits.
  • Native American Connections: $250,000 for the Homeless Youth Services program, which will provide funding for program operations at three Homeless Youth Services sites: (1) HomeBase (emergency shelter); (2) Saguaro Ki (transitional housing) in Central Phoenix, and (3) HomeBase Surprise in West Valley.
  • New Life Center: $50,000 for the Emergency Shelter Program, which will protect women and children experiencing homelessness due to domestic abuse.
  • NourishPHX: $150,000 (over three years) for the Healthy Eating Program, which will supplement the reclaimed food received from St. Mary's Food Bank with fresh produce, dairy and meats purchased specifically to increase the nutritional value of the boxes distributed.
  • OCJ Kids: $30,000 for the Empowering Youth to Succeed in Life After Foster Care program, which will improve the developmental delays, self-esteem, and life skills of children who experienced pre-foster care abuse and help ensure the safety and well-being of foster teens' babies.
  • Phoenix Performing Arts Center dba Herberger Theater Center: $25,000 for the Wolf Trap program, which is a community outreach program in alignment with the mission and guiding principles of the Herberger Theater to make the arts accessible to the whole community and deliver quality arts education to thousands of children.
  • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona: $25,000 for the Keeping Families Together Program, which will underwrite 237 nights of rest at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona for families traveling to the Valley to access specialized pediatric medical care for their critically ill or injured child; life-saving medical care not available in their home communities.
  • Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired: $50,000 for the Reaching Empowerment through Achievement and Learning Program for Blind Children, which will help Phoenix children who are blind recover from learning loss of the pandemic.
  • SOUNDS Academy: $40,000 (over two years) for the Comprehensive Music Program, which will reduce the inequity of music education by providing music experiences and opportunities to under served youth in Phoenix.
  • Southwest Autism Research & Resource Center: $180,000 (over two years) for the Parent Training and Community Outreach Program, which will offer an evidence-based training program for families living in rural or remote areas of Arizona who support a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and provide outreach, training, resources, and education to community organizations in rural and remote areas throughout the state.
  • Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences (SCNM): $120,000 (over three years) for the SCNM Community Health Program, which will support SCNM's Roosevelt Health Center which provides free health care to families in the Roosevelt School District who would otherwise not be able to afford it.
  • St. Mary's Food Bank: $100,000 for the St. Mary's Food Bank Skills Center, which will improve the job readiness and economic security of vulnerable, homeless, and formerly incarcerated people by training and helping place them into food industry or warehouse jobs.
  • Stand for Children Leadership Center: $30,000 (over three years) for the Every Child Reads program, which will provide resources and training to increase literacy habits in the home.
  • Support My Club: $25,000 for the Support My Club program, which will re-engage students in high school through clubs, teams, and extracurricular activities.
  • Swift Youth Foundation: $15,000 for the Swift Youth Enrichment Program, which will help expand Swift Youth Foundation (SYF), Youth Enrichment Program by 10 percent in the 2022-2023 school year. The program, which includes after-school/Saturday programming and an annual Carnival, is part of the SYF's continuum of programming for low-income, high-risk youth.
  • TechForce Foundation: $50,000 for the Women Techs Rock program, which will promote diversity and inclusion in the transportation technician industry by engaging women to pursue technician careers with outreach and scholarships.
  • The Opportunity Tree: $25,000 for the Youth Transition Program-Self Sufficiency for Youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities program, which will provide employment training for youth with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
  • The Phoenix Symphony: $77,578 for the Symphony for All program, which will promote music education to students in low-income schools.
  • The Reveille Foundation: $50,000 (over two years) for the Success Coach program, which will provide wraparound services for former and current military personnel and their families to ensure their basic housing, employment, and medical needs are met.
  • The Zion Institute: $150,000 for The Well: An Integrated Health Service Center, which will support the expansion of The Well, an integrated human service campus that will meet the needs of over 5,000 vulnerable City of Phoenix residents per year.
  • Upward for Children and Families: $30,000 for the Lifting Children Upward Inclusive Early Care and Education program, which will provide inclusive early care and education to children with and without disabilities, helping to fill a tremendous service gap as 30 percent of childcare centers remain closed in the aftermath of the pandemic.
  • Valley of the Sun United Way: $100,000 for the MC2026/General Support program, which will activate solutions for every child, individual, and family in Maricopa County.
  • Valleywise Health Foundation: $75,000 for the Valleywise Health High-Risk Perinatal Program, which will strengthen families and the community by improving the health and safety of vulnerable women and children by ensuring that pregnant women, those set to deliver, and newborn babies receive optimal resources to realize exceptional health outcomes.

 

The gaming compact entered into 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 City Manager Jeffrey Barton and the Office of Government Relations.