The Portland City Council unanimously approved a $185 million municipal budget for 2008-09 on Monday that saved the Reiche Branch of the Portland Public Library from closure for at least a year, but reduced the number of polling places in the city from 16 to six.

Both proposals raised public concern in the final week of budget deliberations.

In passing the budget, the council also set a property tax rate for the coming year.

The combined $274.5 million city and school budgets will increase Portland’s tax rate by 64 cents (3.7 percent), from $17.10 to $17.74 per $1,000 of assessed property value.

At that rate, the tax bill on a $230,000 home would increase $147, from $3,933 to $4,080.