The City of Humboldt has finalized their 2016 budget.

Included is a 4.1 percent tax increase as well as another three levies used to cover road, infrastructure and storm water upgrades.

Manager Roy Hardy says overall he is pleased with manageable increase.

"We were in the position where we were able to accomplish a lot of the programs and projects that we wanted or had to be put forward and we were able to accommodate them within that 4.1 percent guideline."

The city has allocated $1.35 million dollars for the new water treatment plant, $800,000 is set aside to patch, pave and maintain roads plus another $1.2 million for storm water upgrades.

On top of that, $306,000 was turned over to an "unallocated reserve fund."

Hardy says having a reserve account is crucial in municipal planning.

"If you are doing good planning you are actually putting some away for some of the costs for the assets that you've spent on this year. You always should be putting some dollars into reserves to cover the costs of replacing assets in the future that are going to wear out."

$50,000 was approved to go towards the future addition at the Uniplex.

Overall, the increase for an average home owner in the $200,000 range will be about $12 per month starting July 1st.

Hardy feels that is an honest increase to keep the city moving forward.

"We kind of targeted that when we talked about the Netflix subscription comparison at our public meetings. We still think that we're keeping within that envelope and still being able to address the issues that are facing us as a city organization."

You can hear much more about the budget below from Hardy in his interview with Bolt FM's Clark Stork.