Cambridge - Cambridge’s city councilors are looking for more police on the streets, new job training programs, a pay hike for themselves and more tax dollars from you.

Those are a few of the proposals outlined in next year’s city budget, which was released Monday.

Property taxes are expected jump by at least 5.6 percent across the board to fund the city’s proposed $434 million budget. Property owners won’t know exactly how much their individual tax bill will increase until city officials set the new rates in the fall.

The city’s budget increased by $20.8 million — or 5 percent — over last year. Last year, the city’s budget grew by 3.75 percent. This year’s increase was largely due to increases in city employees’ salary, health insurance costs, pension costs, energy costs and debt services to fund a large number of city renovation and construction projects, including the Main Library, the high school and the West Cambridge Youth Center and Community Center, the new police headquarters and the War Memorial Athletic Facility, according to City Manager Bob Healy.

The City Council isn’t tightening its own fiscal belts during these rough economic times. They are asking for more than $14,000 more to travel to national conferences next fiscal year. The nearly $60,000 in funding would cover membership in national organizations and travel for the eight city councilors. (The mayor has a separate travel budget.)

The request for more travel money comes after city councilors passed new rules that would allow each member $4,500 for travel annually, according to Healy.

The council, whose members earned an average of $64,000 in 2006, also increased its salary and benefits budget. Roughly $896,000 is slated to cover the city councilors’ salary, pension plan and health insurance. The 6 percent increase in the budget covers the 1.9 percent raises the city councilors gave themselves.

All the city councilors, who are technically classified as part-time workers, also have city-funded health insurance and many of the city councilors’ families are also covered under the city’s plan. (Only city councilors Ken Reeves, Tim Toomey and David Maher have city health insurance plans that cover only themselves.)

In other budget news, neighborhood activists are likely to be pleased the city is finally planning to add a new jobs program and more police officers July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.

In the wake of a string of shootings in 2006, neighborhood activists across the city lobbied hard for more police officers and a job program to help newly released prisoners and those with little education avoid a life of crime. But it wasn’t until a citywide crime task force convened last year that city officials began to seriously consider the idea.

The eight new police positions include a technician to process crime scene evidence more quickly, an administrator to secure more grant funding for police programs, a crime analyst, an information technology specialist and four police officers for a full-time Explosive Ordinance Unit. The unit, which will also be funded by federal grants, is expected to be equipped with police dogs specially trained to detect explosive devices, firearms and spent ammunition. More money is also being poured into overtime support for the new juvenile detective unit, which works with at-risk kids at the schools and youth centers.

“For the first time, there will be four more police officers than there has been in a long time,” said Healy.

The city also plans to spend about $295,000 to fund a job-training program. The 13-week program is expected to serve groups of up to 12 people who will temporarily work for the city, according to Ellen Semonoff, assistant city manager for human services. Semonoff said program participants would also learn about resumes, work ethics and meet with a caseworker to help them find private sector employment. Semonoff also expects the program to conduct job-counseling assessments for other unemployed residents trying to find work.

City councilors are expected to vote on the proposed plan by June 11, the deadline for the City Council to adopt next fiscal year’s budget. In the meantime, the City Council will debate the budget and hold public hearings. The City Council’s Finance Committee is scheduled to hold its first public hearing on the budget May 1 at 9:30 a.m. at City Hall.