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ITEM 20

City Council Memorandum Management Services Memo No. MS 24-099

Date:

June 10, 2024

To:

Mayor and Council

Thru:

Joshua H. Wright, City Manager
Dawnn Lang, Deputy City Manager - CFO
Kristi Smith, Financial Services Director

From:

Raslyn Sleet, Grants Program Manager

Subject:

Resolution No. 5799 Authorizing Submittal of an Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Grant Application from Dignity Health Foundation - East Valley to Ak-Chin Indian Community

Proposed Motion:

Move City Council pass and adopt Resolution No. 5799 authorizing the submittal of a $206,648 pass-through Indian Gaming Revenue Sharing Grant Application from the Dignity Health Foundation – East Valley to the Ak-Chin Indian Community for a Pilot Behavioral Health Program.

Background:

In 2002, a coalition of Arizona Indian tribes successfully obtained passage of Proposition 202, whereby the state was authorized to enter into gaming compacts with individual tribes. The compacts allowed for expanded tribal use of games and gaming devices as well as pari-mutuel wagering. In exchange, tribes agreed to share a portion of gaming revenues with the state and its counties, cities and towns. The law provides that 12 percent of tribal contributions pursuant to the compacts shall be contributed by Indian tribes to cities, towns and counties for government services that benefit the general public, including public safety, mitigation of gaming impacts and promotion of commerce and economic development. The Indian tribes have some discretion over how these contributions will be made, and each tribe has different application procedures that need to be observed to obtain funding. Additionally, it has become a common practice for cities to submit applications for such contributions on behalf of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that are deemed to be providing government services that benefit the general public.

The City of Chandler for many years has submitted pass-through grant applications for numerous nonprofit organizations based on the interests of the city and its residents. The pass-through grant applicant must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with some nexus with the City and its residents.

Dignity Health and Chandler Regional Medical Center are responding to the community’s mental health needs in a variety of ways. Within the hospital, they must treat increasing numbers of patients with mental health issues seeking help in their emergency department. In the community, they are impacting high school students in the Chandler Unified School District (CUSD) to identify and respond to the signs of mental distress. Over the past decade, across the United States, hospital emergency departments (EDs) have seen a 40% increase in adult patients presenting with acute psychiatric crises. Within the last decade, EDs have attempted to better care for the emergent psychiatric patient population with multiple initiatives. An effort is underway to improve the ED behavioral health process with an emphasis on compassionate and safe care while reducing workplace violence and staff burnout.

Should this grant be awarded, Dignity Health will establish a Director of Behavioral Health pilot position. One of the tasks of the position is to develop a Behavioral Emergency Response Team, which will improve the behavioral health patient experience and the satisfaction of front-line staff caring for these patients. Dignity Health will also use a portion of the funding to train nurses to deliver Teen Mental Health First Aid training in CUSD high schools.

Financial Implications:

The City, by virtue of this Resolution, is acting as a financial conduit between the Ak-Chin Indian Community and Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, and is in no way agreeing or obligating itself to monitor or report on the expenditure of any grant funding distributed to or on behalf of Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, guarantee the accuracy, completeness or truthfulness of the information set forth in the application materials prepared by the Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, supervise or take any responsibility regarding the actions or activities undertaken by the Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, or represent that Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, either has, or does not have, other sources of funding relating to the intended use of grant funding set forth in this Resolution, including funding from grant applications made on behalf of Dignity Health Foundation-East Valley, to other Indian tribes. The City has up to 10 days to send the funds once received.

Attachments

Resolution 5799 - Dignity Health Foundation - Ak-Chin

Dignity Health-Ak Chin Grant Signed Application 2024