The City of Winnipeg’s financial outlook is now a little brighter.

The city currently expects a projected surplus of $6.9 million, up from $3.5 million at last check, according to a staff report headed to Thursday’s finance committee meeting.

And that surplus is expected to increase over the rest of the year, since city finances tended to do so during the final quarter of the past five years, the report notes.

The projection is based on city finances, as of Aug. 31, 2015.

The city credits the surplus to a boost in photo radar revenues, public works vacancy-management savings, increased interest payments to the tax department and savings from the delayed moving date of Winnipeg Police into their new headquarters.