LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Former Henderson Police Chief Holly Chadwick sat down with FOX5’s Tom Durian to discuss her mayoral campaign and its priorities.
Chadwick served 22 and a half years with the Henderson Police Department before her termination last year. Sources told FOX5 that city leadership provided her an ultimatum to either “be fired with cause or resign with a hefty settlement,” with no clear cause.
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“Having said that, getting into politics has nothing to do with that,” Chadwick said. “I have to move forward. I can’t carry that stuff in my heart.”
Chadwick said she is fully retired but wants to continue serving the community.
“I still want to give back to this community,” she said. “I want to continue to serve.”
Affordable housing
Chadwick said Henderson needs more single-family, owner-occupied homes for the working class.
“What we’re missing is single family, efficient economy, owner occupied homes that are taking care of our working class,” she said. “We’re missing that huge area in the middle for our community.”
She said the city needs to streamline the permitting process and work with developers to build homes that are not corporate-owned or rentals.
“These cannot be corporate-owned. They cannot be rentals,” Chadwick said. “They need to be the people that live here and work here and want to participate in our community.”
Job growth and business development
Chadwick said business owners have told her Henderson can be cumbersome with getting through the development process.
“I’ve talked to a lot of business owners that have said, we don’t even bother with Henderson because it takes too long to get through everything,” she said.
She said the city needs to streamline processes and ensure businesses bring good-paying jobs to the community.
Boulder Highway project
Chadwick said the Boulder Highway reimagining project has caused problems for local businesses.
“Taking away three lanes and putting it as two. Putting a bus down the middle. A lot of local businesses have been suffering,” she said. “And that’s not what we want.”
She said the city needs to monitor what is developed on land freed up by the road diet and ensure it benefits the established community and local businesses.
Public safety
Chadwick said she cares about the Henderson Police Department and wants to ensure officers are paid competitive wages.
“For the last year, they’ve been arguing about their wages. It finally got approved last week,” she said. “But in the meantime, we’ve lost a lot of officers that have gone to other agencies because we weren’t paying them.”
She said the city cannot expect to remain one of the safest communities in the country without taking care of officers.
On working with ICE, Chadwick said if someone came to the country illegally to do illegal things, it needs to be addressed.
“Beyond that, I think what we’re doing is exactly correct for what we need to do for this community,” she said.
Working with city leaders
If elected, Chadwick said she would not have difficulty working with people involved in her termination.
“The most important thing is taking care of this community,” she said. “Everything needs to be positive moving forward. And my whole job is to unify everyone, bring us together, work as a team.”
Chadwick said Henderson has 85% locally owned businesses and the city needs to help them prosper.
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