While tents from the Occupy Calgary movement packed up more than two months ago, taxpayers will be swallowing costs of about $100,000 associated with the demonstration, according to a bylaw boss Bill Bruce.

He said his estimates for the total costs incurred by the city are based largely on staffing, as additional bylaw officers were deployed.

“We didn’t incur a lot of overtime because our guys were quite willing to do their shift changes to make it work so the taxpayer didn’t take it too hard on the chin, but there was still a cost for this silliness,” said Bruce.

Costs due to wear and tear from camping and garbage removal were also included in the $100,000, but Bruce acknowledged the damages didn’t result in a large price tag.

Tavis Ford, a member of the Occupy movement, said the city’s decision to patrol more frequently wasn’t necessary as the group wasn’t a threat.

“It’s unfortunate that it went this way, but sometimes, in the process of change, these costs are incurred by the state, and the taxpayer does bear the burden of that,” he said. “But it is, perhaps, a necessary cost.”

Ald. Diane Colley-Urquhart, a vocal critic of Occupy Calgary, said she was surprised the costs weren’t much higher.

“I think there were a lot of soft costs that went into this that were hard to measure,” she said. “To be quite frank, I honestly thought it would be a lot more, because this went on way, way too long.”