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North Las Vegas utilities department presents $215.6 million budget, highlights capital spending and rate increase
Summary
City staff presented the City of North Las Vegas utilities department approved FY 2025–26 budget of $215.6 million, with most of the year-over-year increase tied to capital improvement projects and a 3% water rate increase set to take effect in October.
Leticia Romero, utility finance manager for the City of North Las Vegas, presented the utilities department’s approved budget for fiscal year 2025–26.
“The approved budget for fiscal year 25 26 is 215,600,000, of which 103,200,000 is for capital improvement projects,” Romero said. She told the advisory board the overall budget represents an 8.3% increase from the current year and that most of the $16.2 million increase is for capital projects; Romero said roughly $15.8 million of that increase is capital and the remainder—about $400,000—covers utility operating expenditures such as electrical, gas and Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) water purchases.
Romero described several line items in the water and wastewater capital improvement…
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