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Saskatoon is getting a new downtown library in seven years, an organic waste collection program in four years and the lowest tax increase in a decade next year.

City council spent 21 and a half hours over three days deliberating on city hall’s first two-year budget, which was set Wednesday with property tax increases of 3.7 per cent in 2020 and 3.87 per cent in 2021.

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The 3.7 per cent increase would be the lowest this decade, and only 3.79 per cent in 2018 and 3.86 per cent in 2010 were lower than the increase slated for 2021.

For a single-family home with an assessed value of $371,000, the household would pay an extra $69.87 in 2020 and then another extra $75.35 in 2021. Combined, that’s an increase of $145.22.

“I don’t take for granted — every tax increase has an impact on citizens,” Mayor Charlie Clark told reporters Wednesday night. “It’s the lowest property tax increase in 10 years. I’m going to keep saying it.”