Rowdy protesters twice stopped annual budget meeting as councillors including the
Anti-cuts campaigners chanted 'Shame on you' as Labour council leader Sir Albert Bore stood up to confirm the package of cuts and the Lord Mayor was forced to stop the meeting twice.
The second time saw campaigners removed from the public gallery by a security guard.
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With a strong majority, the Labour group's were passed without trouble - but not before councillors had heated exchanges over who was to blame for the city council's financial woes.
Labour leader Sir Albert Bore said: "We will oppose the extreme and stand up for the people of Birmingham who will be most affected by them."
And added: "Despite the scale of the cuts, we have brought forward a budget that reflects our aim of protecting the most vulnerable in our city as far as we can possibly can."
He highlighted a £21 million increase in funding for child protection and said the service "may at last be turning the corner" after years of failure.
And added a note of optimism that Birmingham's economy was growing with and jobs on the rise.
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In a 50-minute budget speech, he also spoke about the improvement plans put in place in the wake of the and outlined the case for more devolution of powers and funding from Government.
Both the opposition Conservative and Lib Dem groups challenged Labour's decision to cut the library service, not to reinstate free garden waste collections or restore community project funds to local councillors.
Tory leader Robert Alden said the budget was not about how much money the council received from government but about what it chose to spend it on.
He pointed out that £42 million of the council cuts had been redirected to academy schools and therefore was still spent on services in the city.
He also slammed new charges for high street business groups, called Business Improvement Districts, as 'shoppers' tax'.
He said: "We have a choice to save those services our residents want. They will ask 'why am I paying more tax while my library is closing?"
Lib Dem deputy leader Jon Hunt described the cuts in libraries, children's centres, community chest funds and waste collection as "a series of petty cuts to frontline services which could be put right for less than £10 million".
He said this amount was small compared to the over all budget and scale of cuts.