BOULDER CITY – Tuesday night (5.27.2025), City Council voted unanimously to approve the 2025-2026 fiscal year budget. Department Directors took a unique role in building the $46.8 million budget: they met as a team to discuss what each department needed and how to trim expenses to ensure direct services would remain unaffected.
Public Safety (Fire Department, Police Department, Dispatch and Animal Control) accounts for the largest portion of the annual budget at $18.7 million – slightly more than 40-percent of the City’s operating budget. “Keeping our community safe is a priority to this Council, to me, and to our 15,000 residents,” said City Manager Ned Thomas, AICP. “We are fortunate that Boulder City has been able to effectively recruit first responders at a time when other communities struggle to hire new staff.”
City Council held a Special Meeting in April, and staff led a workshop with residents to present the draft budget as well. “The Finance Department staff is committed to budgeting for the future and advancing the long-term fiscal health of our city government,” said Cynthia Sneed, CPA, CGFM. “We work to balance our budget, maintain the level of services residents and visitors expect, and work to reduce volatility in our future budgets. I’m proud of this team and its efforts.”
The current property tax rate for Boulder City residents continues to be one of the lowest in the State at $0.2600 per $100 assessed value (so for every $1,000 valuation, homeowners pay $26.10 in property taxes). This compares with $0.7408 for Henderson, $1.0515 for Las Vegas, and $1.1587 for North Las Vegas.
The approved budget adds one full-time employee over last year: the Fleet Supervisor, which is expected to provide savings as more work can be completed on site, instead of contracted. New Parks and Recreation job classifications include an Aquatics Coordinator Assistant, eliminating the need for a .8 part-time employee, and returning the Parks & Recreation Manager position while removing the Analyst position (cost neutral). The full-time equivalent (FTE) headcount for fiscal year 2025 is 223.4. (The only current union negotiated contracts are the electrical union. All other unions will be updated as the new contracts are ratified.)
You can check out the entire 2025-2026 budget online at www.bcnv.org/budget.
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