The final review of the city’s 2010 budget ended with bringing back positions to the Kenosha Fire Department and Keep Kenosha Beautiful Commission while eliminating the city real estate agent position.

Kenosha’s aldermen voted 14-3 to support the city’s 2010 operating budget during tonight’s Committee of the Whole meeting. Aldermen Don Holland, G. John Ruffolo, Katherine Marks and Steve Casey voted against the proposal. The committee’s recommendation will go before the City Council at 5 p.m. on Wednesday for final approval.

Tonight’s meeting saw aldermen support restoring the Keep Kenosha Beautiful coordinator position, but with 10 less hours a week, and restore the deputy fire chief position after $45,000 in cuts were approved in the Kenosha Fire Department.

The committee also voted to eliminate the city real estate agent position. The committee also recommended approving $107,000 in reductions in the Transit Department budget in order to maintain regular service on the No. 6 and 36 bus lines.

The proposed budget would feature a tax levy increase of about 2.2 percent from this year. The owner of an average city home, valued at $169,633, would pay about $1,472 in property taxes for the city’s portion of taxes. That figure is up about $32 dollars from this year.