(Newswatch Group/Bill Kingston, File) CORNWALL – After three days of deliberations with a marathon last meeting, Cornwall city council has passed the 2021 budget with a 2.83 per cent tax increase. The final vote was 7-4 just before midnight Thursday for a meeting that started at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Those opposed to the budget said there wasn’t enough focus on looking at the $179 million operating budget and making cuts there. Most of the budget meetings focused on the $37 million in capital projects. While supporting the capital budget, Coun. Eric Bergeron said he couldn’t vote for the budget as a whole based on the operations side. “For me, I just fundamentally don’t think we’ve done enough work on the operating side of this budget. It represents 95 times more tax base funding than capital budget.”