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Brace yourselves, Saskatoon residents.

The worst news from the recent provincial budget might land in your mailboxes soon.

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Coun. Randy Donauer is bracing to hear about it.

“I’m going to get hammered with this and it has nothing to do with me,” Donauer said at last Monday’s city council meeting.

The biggest property tax increase in 10 years for Saskatoon residents is coming, and Donauer is worried people will blame him.

City council just concluded an extremely rare revisit to the 2017 municipal budget to address a $9-million shortfall created by the March 22 provincial budget.

In the end, council opted to tap different methods to address the hole, but ended up increasing property taxes by 0.93 per cent. Overall, the city’s portion of property taxes is going up 4.82 per cent in 2017, but businesses will bear the brunt of that increase.

Residents will see an increase of just 2.55 per cent to the city’s property tax. That sounds pretty good until you realize the province is hiking the education portion. The provincial budget introduced a 10 per cent increase for education property taxes to raise an extra $67 million or at total of $746.9 million throughout the province.