The City of Calgary has released the Proposed Adjustments to 2013-2014 business plans and budgets.

Property taxes were set last year to increase 5.7 per cent in 2013 and 6.1 per cent in 2014 and those numbers have not changed.

“We had extensive citizen engagement and a lot of input from City Council into creating our three year budget through something called Council’s Fiscal Plan. Our goal for this year was to make sure that Calgary’s economy hadn’t changed very much, that we could still capture the millions of dollars in savings from efficiencies that Council approved the last time,” says Mayor Naheed Nenshi.

Some of the adjustments proposed include adding 35,000 hours to Transit and hiring additional 9-1-1 operators.

Calgarians are being asked to review the budget and send in feedback.

You can find all that information here.

The Canadian Tax Payers federation isn’t pleased with the tabled budget.

Alberta Director Derek Fildebrandt says the city is pulling the wool over Calgarians’ eyes with the presentation of the budget.

“They’re trying to make us feel like we’re getting a good deal out of this when we’re getting a tax hike three times the rate of inflation for some modest increases to 9-1-1 services,” says Hildebrandt. “There’s no reason for it. It’s probably them just laying the ground work for asking for more money from the province.”

He says tax-increases should not be higher than the rate of inflation as the city grows, pointing out more residents means more money for city coffers.