After four days of considerations, Saskatoon’s city council has officially passed its budget for next year with a higher-than-usual property tax increase.

Saskatoon residents can expect to see a 6.7-per cent increase in property taxes next year, and a 5.81 per cent hike in 2027. For the average homeowner, this amounts to around $13 a month and $12 a month, respectively.

City council spent the previous two days going through 108 options to chip away at the operating budget and put money back in the pockets of residents. Despite the progress this process made at the end of the third day — which lowered the tax rate to 6.1 per cent — some additional, larger items were added to the bill Friday, bringing that number up by a little more than half a percentage point.

One such item is the a

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