The mill rates bylaw was voted on at city council on Monday. The bylaw is voted on each year after the provincial budget has been released so city taxes can be established.

Council were given two options to choose from, to keep the status quo and every class to increase by the same amount with base tax to remain at $600. This would mean an increase of 1.71% on the mill rate seeing around $15 on a house with a tax assessment of $2500 on the year. The second option is to move residential and bare land out of the base tax category into a new class. This would increase the base tax amount to $625 reducing taxes slightly to 1.5 increase% with an average house seeing an increase of $35

The motion was made to select option one. This was passed unanimously.

The municipal rate is the rate that went up," explained Theresa Hicks, City Assessor, City of Weyburn.

"The school rate, so far we have preliminaries, it has not gone up as far as we know. When the provincial budget came out they decided not to increase the school so we only have the municipal rate and the school rate and it's combined and then there's also the base tax."

After the second reading of the motion by Councillor Winston Bailey, Councillor Mel van Betuw noted that he hoped in future years to increase taxes slightly in order to build a reserve, something the city was unable to do this year.

Landon Field, Youth Mayor, said it would be good to have a reserve for future generations.