Departments
The City of Henderson employs 1,899 full time and 1,298 part time employees (January 2008), and is the largest full-service city in Nevada directly providing to residents and businesses all the essential public services: ambulance, fire, police, water and sewer.
Of the City's annual budget of $221.4-million, 50% of city revenues are derived from sales taxes while almost 50% of city expenditures are allocated to public safety. For the past 18 years, the City of Henderson has maintained one of the lowest property tax rates in the State and one of the lowest city employee-to-resident ratios in Southern Nevada.
In 1999 Henderson was the first city in Southern Nevada to provide municipal services away from City Hall, availing residents the opportunity to transact business with the City without the need to drive to the Henderson Government Complex located within the Water Street District. To serve the community even more efficiently and bring municipal services closer to resident homes, the City moved the Utility Services Satellite office in 2005 to the Multigenerational Recreation Facility at Liberty Pointe to centralize key resident services within the Liberty Pointe Complex.
Henderson was also the first city to stagger city employee work shifts so that public offices could be accessible 10 hours a day, five days a week. Residents can pay water and sewers bills, or do other business with the city, on their way to work or on the way home in the evening. At the same time, the city's four-day workweek, with employees working 9.5 hour days, saves the city approximately $5.70 million each year.
Because Henderson is a full service city, residents are not required to deal with a myriad of agencies for municipal services, therefore resulting in elected officials, city management and staff being directly responsible for the delivery of quality of public services and customer satisfaction.