The City of Humboldt is continuing to work towards finalizing the 2017 budget early next year.

As part of the process they recently had a survey available both online and via hard copy. The questions were steered towards how do you feel the city spends theirs and taxpayer's dollars, what services are important and what could perhaps be dialed back.

Overall staff is pleased with the 248 people that took part.

"The 2017 budget consultation that the City of Humboldt undertook was quite successful and really quite insightful for us to use as council deliberates the service levels and the priorities over the next few years," Director of Community Development Jennifer Brooks explained Tuesday as the results became available.

"Some of the information that council received back was quite good in that when we are looking at delivering over 200 programs and services we need to look at ways to make sure they are sustainable," Brooks continued.

84 percent of respondents do say they receive positive service for their money. That is something the city was happy to hear. Not that amount of people agree with increases however which doesn't come as a shock.

"A solid third of folks supported a combination of increases balanced over property taxes, user fees or dedicated tax levies," Brooks stated.

23 percent support increases in user fees, 19 percent are in support of levies.

"Property taxes don't cover the costs of delivering all the programs and services within the city and we rely on funding and grants from different levels of governments as well as user fees and charges to balance that amount so knowing how to allocate dollars is quite key and knowing what priorities citizens want is very important," Brooks concluded.

You can read more into the numbers here.

You can hear more from Brooks below in her interview with Bolt FM's Clark Stork.