City of Phoenix - File #: 21-1628

Date	Action By	Action	Action Details	Details	Video
6/16/2021	City Council Formal Meeting	adopted	Action details	Details	Not Available

Title

(CONTINUED FROM JUNE 2, 2021) - Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Gaming Grants (Ordinance S-47649)

Description

Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to apply, accept, and if awarded, enter into related agreements for up to $836,200 in new funding from Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation under the 2021 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:

City Applications

Community and Economic Development Department: $50,000 for the Reinvest Maryvale Campaign, which will attract meaningful investment and development interest in the Maryvale Village, that will provide education, recreational and economic opportunity to the residents and visitors of Maryvale.
Housing Department: $27,460 for the PHXHousing Connect Tech Ambassador Program, which will develop a new program for up to 800 senior residents at the city's public housing properties who recently received a device and free internet service. Funding will be used to develop a Tech Ambassador program to provide continued support to the city's senior public housing residents by supporting one year of peer-to-peer digital literacy skill training and isolation-reducing social activities.
Human Services Department: $149,479 for the Phoenix Youth R.I.S.E. program, which will provide youth of Phoenix, ages 16 to 24, an opportunity to participate in a paid, four-week work experience/internship with a community business during the summer months. Funding will allow for 107 more youth to be served and in turn support the economic and community development needs in Phoenix.
Office of Environmental Programs and Community and Economic Development Department: $289,000 (over two years) for the Phoenix Urban Agriculture, Climate Resilience, and Entrepreneurship (ACRE) program, which will strengthen the food production step of the local food system by helping farms increase climate resilience, growing new farm entrepreneurs and worker cooperatives, and training the next generation of growers through a fellowship program that embeds fellows with farms and other entrepreneurs.
Phoenix Fire Department: $84,361 for the Phoenix Fire Department Regional Paramedic Training Unit Vehicle, funding will be used to acquire a dedicated paramedic training vehicle that will provide a consistent and reliable apparatus for paramedic students to respond to EMS incidents to practice response, apply knowledge and perform skills necessary to effectively provide medical treatment in a pre-hospital setting prior to certification.

Nonprofit Applications

Aunt Rita's Foundation: $10,000 for the Ending the HIV Epidemic: Prevention, Education, Testing, and Outreach program, which would educate individuals about HIV, prevent HIV transmission, promote HIV testing, provide resources to access health care, medications, housing, substance use treatment, legal aid, etc., and heighten the awareness of HIV through virtual and in-person community events.
Arizona Educational Foundation: $25,000 for the Our World: Educators for Indigenous Students program, which will provide training for teachers and administrators serving Indigenous students throughout the City of Phoenix and Maricopa County.
Arizona Foundation for Women: $25,000 for the SHE Leads! Leadership Development for Women program, which seeks to amplify its impact by creating a cohort of SHE Leads! participants from BIPOC communities who have often been marginalized by past leadership programs.
Arizona Helping Hands: $10,000 for the Basic Needs program, which will provide beds and other essential items for children in foster care so they can lead healthy and safe lives.
Arizona Humane Society: $8,000 for the Humane Teens for a Humane Future program, which will benefit the Humane Teens program during the 2022-2023 school year, allowing Arizona Humane Society to enroll up to 40 teens in their STEM-related internship program.
Camp Colley: $27,900 for the Phoenix Youth to Camp Colley 2021 program, which will fund undeserved Phoenix children to attend Camp Colley in 2021 for their positive learning and growth in nature. Program objectives include increasing social-emotional skills and environmental education/learning.
Esperanca, Inc.: $10,000 for the Health Literacy Education for Low-Income Latino Children, Adults and Seniors program, which will support Esperanca's delivery of evidence-based health literacy programs regarding nutrition, physical activity, chronic disease self-management, such as diabetes, and oral health to reduce the prevalence of obesity, diabetes and poor oral health that disproportionately affect low-income Latino children, adults, and seniors. Esperanca also delivers meals and food items to Latino seniors in the programs to reduce food insecurity and promote healthy eating.
Foundation for Senior Living (FSL): $15,000 for the FSL Nutrition Program for Low-Income Seniors program, which will support FSL's efforts to reduce food insecurity and improve the health outcomes of an estimated 1,000 unduplicated low-income seniors and homebound adults with disabilities through the provision of 70,000 hot, nutritious meals in Fiscal Year 2022.
New Pathways for Youth: $50,000 for the Holistic Youth Transformation Program, which will provide a comprehensive, evidence-based programming to improve the educational outcome of at-risk students attending Title I schools in Maricopa County. Funding will serve more than 600 new Title I students over the next five years, more than doubling their organizational impact.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona: $25,000 for the Keeping Families Together program, which will offer families a welcoming and safe place to stay, meals, and a support system of other families who are also experiencing a difficult time. Funding would fund 234 nights of rest for families and would allow them to stay close to their ill or injured children receiving specialized care at a Phoenix-area hospital.
Valley of the Sun YMCA: $20,000 for the Childcare, Preschool, and Meal Programs for low-income Phoenix children program, which will provide childcare, preschool, and meals to children from low-income Phoenix families at no cost.
Year Up Arizona: $10,000 for the Closing the Opportunity Divide in Phoenix: Support for Year Up Arizona's Workforce Development Program, which support Year Up Arizona's Gateway Community College location. They will enroll up to 160 young adults in the program preparing them to compete for careers and thrive in a rapidly evolving economy.

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 public including education, public safety, health, environment, economic and community development. The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation 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 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 Ed Zuercher and the Office of Government Relations.