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Here are the highlights of the draft budget:

Property taxes, water rates would go up

No surprise here: Property taxes would increase two per cent under the draft budget.

That means the average urban residential homeowner would pay $72 more in taxes in 2017. An average rural homeowner would pay $60 more.

Broken down, the transit levy on the tax bills would increase $15 annually for the average urban homeowner and $5 for the rural homeowner. Policing would cost $11 more for all homes in 2017.

The garbage fee on all property tax bills would increase by $2, breaking a four-year run of keeping the fee at $82.

A five-per-cent increase to water and sewer bills was locked in before the city tabled the draft budget. Landowners who aren’t connected to city services can also look forward to paying a new stormwater fee on their tax bills, phased in over four years.

Low-income transit pass to be funded from social services budget

OC Transpo is calling the proposed low-income transit pass the “EquiPass” and plans to charge customers $57 per month, a big discount from the $113.75 regular adult monthly pass.

The city would dip into the extra revenue from a growing tax base to cover the $2.2 million annual cost for the pass. The money would come from the social services budget. Another $500,000 contingency fund would be available if the budget lags behind uptake.

Advocates wanted the price of the pass to be $41.75 but they aren’t sour on the city’s proposal.