City council has passed the 2015 budget following a two-day meeting at city hall.

The budget passed 42-2 shortly after 8 p.m. Councillors Rob Ford and Giorgio Mammoliti were the only votes in opposition.

It is the first budget for Mayor John Tory.

The budget was passed following votes on more than 40 motions, including dozens from Ford.

Earlier Wednesday, city council voted in favour of a solid waste budget that will see the cost of garbage bins rise by an average of 58 per cent.

Coun. Ford had been calling on his colleagues to vote against the move, which he said would “unfairly burden” taxpayers, but council decided to ignore Ford’s pleas and approve the proposed budget and accompanied fee increase.

The revised structure for garbage bins will now require homeowners to fork over an extra $3.91 a year for a small bin (total cost $10.63), $32.64 for a medium bin (total cost $88.73), $91 for a large bin (total cost $247.39) and $126.39 for an extra-large bin (total cost $343.60).

During a news conference at city hall on Wednesday afternoon, Tory defended the increase, calling it a "perfectly sensible policy" that is in the "best long-term interest" of the city.

“What we are trying to do is recover the cost of dealing with all the garbage that we produce in the city, which is a big problem and a long-term problem and a growing problem just in the sense that we are going to be running out of space at the landfill site and secondly to … get people to change their behavior in terms of how much garbage they produce," Tory said.

On Tuesday, council voted 38-6 in favour of a 2.75 per cent property tax hike, allowing Tory to follow through on a campaign promise to keep any tax increase to around the rate of inflation.

The vote came after Coun. Gord Perks tabled a motion calling on the city to raise taxes an additional 1.83 percentage points in order to balance the budget without following through on a controversial plan to use money intended for a capital reserve account.

The 2.75 per cent property tax hike includes a previously approved 0.5 per cent increase for the Scarborough subway extension and will cost the average homeowner $83 a year.

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