Portland city councilors approved the school district’s $179.3 million budget Monday night, sending it to its final stop before approval: city voters.

The final version of the budget requires a 5.68% increase in the school portion of the property tax rate, which translates to an additional $201 per year for a median-priced $566,600 home.

This year’s budget process drew passionate public comment as the district struggled with a decrease in state subsidy because of declining enrollment, resulting in a proposal to cut 20 positions. By the end of the process, the board restored several of those positions, although the final budget still removes some from the district’s central office and schools, many of which are currently vacant.

The budget sailed quickly through its final council vote Monday night, where members present unanimously supported its passage.

“It is a hard budget, and there are difficult tradeoffs here,” Superintendent Ryan Scallon told the council. He said the local budget only increased by 2.6%, but that the loss of $4 million in state funding drove the, “overall challenge that we face in our budget, and the need to really make some fiscally challenging decisions.”

However, he said, the district is confident it will get more state funding in coming years to ease that pressure, thanks to a legislative reform of the state funding formula, something Portland has advocated for strongly.

City voters will now get the chance to weigh in on the budget on June 9, on the same day as the statewide primaries. Last year’s budget passed with 67% approval.