Saskatoon city councillors continue budget deliberations

City councillors in Saskatoon are getting ready for a second day of budget deliberations.

Yesterday, council voted unanimously in favour of the police service's request for a 4.78 per cent increase, or about $3.8 millionmore than 2015. Most of the increase will be used to hire eight new officers.

Council approved a one-time transfer of $800,000 from the Remai Art Gallery budget to cover an anticipated construction shortfall.

So far, the new spending will mean a four per cent tax hike, unless other savings are found.

The CBC's Kathy Fitzpatrick is at the budget review. You can follow along here as she live tweets the work being done by council.