Saskatoon 2018 preliminary budget by the numbers

Some key numbers from the City of Saskatoon’s preliminary 2018 budget, released Monday, with some equivalent numbers from 2017 in brackets:
4.96 per cent property tax increase (2017: 4.82 per cent)
$86.37 projected increase for an average assessed home worth $371,000
$491 million operating budget (2017: $477.7 million)
$295.4 million capital budget (2017: $261.4 million)
$1.14 billion total budget (2017: $1.1 billion)
29.7 new full-time employees (2017: 57.4)
5.73 new full-time employees f