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Morinville will have to shell out even more than expected for its renovated civic centre, and the town’s mayor says council should have done more to keep the project’s costs in check.

The proposed property tax increase stand at 3.48 per cent with one more night of debate left on the proposed 2013 budget.

At six in the evening, a lone hare is the only resident of Hamilton Crescent out on the road. His white fur mixes with the colour of the snow. He runs from car to car – a small nose sniffing the air, the long ears lifted and turning.

Coun. Len Bracko wants the city to spend more than $500,000 for a study on what route a future LRT line through St. Albert might take.

Councillors will break out the “tax-o-meter” on Tuesday as they start sifting through, debating and voting on dozens of motions that will ultimately decide the value of a property tax increase for 2013.

Most people only know of the St. Albert Kinettes as the group that takes centre stage around this time every year. They have their annual Christmas hamper campaign that offered food and gifts to more than 240 local families in 2011.

The proposed tax increase for the city’s draft budget always gets the most attention, and the 2013 proposed budget is no exception. Administration has presented council with a proposed 5.

The season of giving started unofficially a few weeks ago when the City of St. Albert announced this year's winners of its philanthropy ward.

Local law enforcement officers will be out in full force this weekend taking drunk drivers off the streets as part of the annual checkstop season.

The first year featuring a new way for calculating the budget requests of different community groups has run into some growing pains.