LV firefighter budget sliced by $10M

Funding available for overtime will be limited

The Las Vegas Fire Department is implementing a plan to reduce its operating budget by roughly $10 million to deal with a deficit caused by the pandemic.

Fire Chief William Mcdonaldsaidinastatementthat “the entire city of Las Vegas is feeling the economic impact caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic.”

“It has resulted in holes in ourbudgetthatcouldnotbe offset entirely by the receipt of funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act,” Mcdonald said. “This remaining budget deficit has required our fire department, as well as all other city departments, to decrease the operating budgets for this fiscal year.”

The city in May passed a pared-down, $572 million budget, noting that tax revenue — principally sales tax — was down 20 percent and projected to perform worse than at any time in the past

day by the Las Vegas Review-journal.

The board of directors of Red Rock, Station Casinos’ parent company, plans to make further announcements

regarding Haskins’ succession in the coming days, according to a statement released by the company.

Haskins, who joined Station Casinos in 1995 as general counsel of Midwest operations, had served as president of Red Rock Resorts and Station Casinos since October 2015,

according to a company bio.

Contact Alex Chhith at achhith@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0290. Follow @alexchhith on Twitter. Review-journal staff writer Bailey Schulz contributed to this report.