The City of Winnipeg’s spending plan for 2026 calls for a 3.5 per cent property tax hike and a commitment to spend $500 million on the third and final phase of the upgrades to the city’s largest sewage-treatment plant.

Winnipeg Mayor Scott Gillingham said Thursday the city budget for next year will include a return to the same property-tax increases the city experienced in 2023 and 2024, the first two budget years for this mayor.

In 2025, the city raised the total pool of taxes it collects on properties by 5.95 per cent, the highest hike of its kind in Winnipeg since 1990.

Gillingham confirmed the hike will return to 3.5 per cent in 2026 as part of a budget that will be made public at a special meeting of city council’s executive policy committee on Friday afternoon.

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