Education tax is going up quite a bit in the province, but High River won't be affected as much as some other municipalities.

CFO and CAO Tom Maier says the town was expecting the jump, because of last year's tax drop.

"High River won't be as major of impact as we're seeing with other communities such as Calgary and Chestermere and other ones from the province. Our education rate went up, but we were expecting it to go up because it had dropped a lot last year because of property values with the flood."

He says last year's education taxes dropped significantly and the increase this year is just a rebound from the decrease.

"2015 our education taxes went down about 8 per cent and that was because of property values in the town after the flood being reduced. This year they're going up. The tax amount from the province is going up about 11 per cent. So it's rebounding from the decrease from last year.

He says taxes in town will only increase about 3 per cent total.

"We're still shooting probably to be overall tax increase on the total amount of taxes of in around 2.75 to 3 per cent, in around that range. And that's what we'd planned before. Even with the education taxes going up our municipal tax is pretty much the same as it was the year before so that balances out."

Maier says over the two year period from 2014-2016 the education tax increase is only about three percent, which is right on target with the town's expectations.