North Las Vegas approves $736.8 million balanced budget

Plan includes elimination of 204 full-time city jobs and hiring freeze

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 9:40 p.m.

The North Las Vegas City Council unanimously approved its 2010-2011 budget during a special meeting Tuesday night.

The balanced budget includes the elimination of 204 full-time city jobs and a hiring freeze, which will leave 214 currently vacant positions unfilled for the next year.

The city’s finance department projects $736.8 million in revenue and $736.8 in expenditures for the next fiscal year.

“If you notice, we just talked about our revenues. That matches our expenditures,” said City Assistant Director Alfonso Noyola. “That’s a good thing.”

The city will submit its budget to the state by June 1, said Financial Director Phil Stoeckinger. The state requires cities have a balanced budget.

The budget includes $3.65 million for the library district and $4.73 million for the redevelopment agency.

The fiscal year general fund expenditures for 2011 will be about $52.5 million less than they were during fiscal year 2010, Noyola said.

Public safety costs will account for about two-thirds of general fund expenditures during 2010-2011, Noyola said.

General fund sources of revenue, expected to total $142.4 million, include property taxes at 7 percent of the fund and consolidated tax revenue at 23 percent of the fund.

Other sources include licenses, permits and franchise fees (17 percent), and fines and forfeits (10 percent).

Consolidated tax revenue has been dropping since July 2009, but “you can see the rate of our decline is slowing, which is very good,” Noyola said. “It’s too early to tell, but this is a positive sign.”

About 40 people — many of them city employees — attended the 5 p.m. meeting at City Hall. No one spoke during the public hearing portion of the meeting.

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By NVVoter

May 19, 2010

9:31 a.m.

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Can someone tell me if NLV employees are still getting paid for a 4-day, 40 hr work week when they actually only work 36 hours/week?
By Babyboomer

May 19, 2010

6:59 p.m.

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These are the hard results to hard times.The down side is...it's not over.
By mastic

May 20, 2010

7:53 a.m.

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As a long time resident of North Las Vegas, I would like for The Council to consider how much could be saved by not issuing automobiles to the directors and administrative personal who use these vehicles all the time for personal use.
I often see these vehicles driven around the valley and in places like Summerlin on weekends when the City is closed for business, and was just wondering if this could be a way to save jobs for the workers.
Now is the time for all employees to cut back, and that includes the directors, who by what I have been reading have been like musical directors standing outside a juke box and taking credit for the music that comes out of the juke box.