Moonee Valley City Council is a local government within the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
We formed in 1994 as the result of a merger between the City of Essendon and City of Keilor.
Our Chief Executive Neville Smith commenced his position in November 2010. You can view our organisational structure and values.
What we do
We are responsible for providing a range of community services for residents and businesses within the City of Moonee Valley. These include areas of childcare, aged and disability, libraries, animal registration, planning, street cleaning, parking management, citizenship ceremonies, garbage collection and recycling.
We also look after community buildings, footpaths and roads, parks and gardens, bridges, drains and street furniture, environmental areas, recreation centres and sporting grounds.
We want to know if you are satisfied with the services we provide and have a set of customer service standards that we follow.
More information about how we work can be found in the Guide to Local Government.
The Local Government Act 1989 requires us to make particular documents available for public inspection. You can view a list of these documents (doc, 263KB) and find out how to access them.
Wards
There are three wards that make up our City - Rose Hill, Buckley and Myrnong. Each ward is represented by three Councillors.
We held a general election for nine Councillor positions on Saturday 29 November 2008.
The Councillors are guided by the following policies:
Code of Conduct (doc, 1MB)
Resources, Facilities and Reimbursement of Expenses to Councillors Policy (doc, 460KB) The Moonee Valley Mayor is Cr Jim Cusack and the Deputy Mayor is Cr Miriam Gillis. A new Mayor and Deputy Mayor are elected annually by the Councillors.
Interesting facts and figures
Did you know we:
- employ around 350 local residents
- spend around $5 million each year maintaining 410km of local roads, 790km of footpaths and more than 16,000 drainage pits
- provide over 100,000 hours of care to frail aged residents and people with a disability and their carers
- pick up over four million rubbish and recycling bins each year
- own and run five libraries, the Clocktower Centre, Incinerator Gallery and the Flemington Community Centre
- recycle more than 45 per cent of all waste generated locally
- help around 600 people become citizens each year
- organise events like the Moonee Valley Festival, Youth Festival, Arts Week and Carols
- provide over $300,000 to community groups each year
- run one of Victoria’s largest Walking School Bus Programs
- plant around 10,000 trees per year
- provide around 7,000 immunisation injections each year
- maintain more than 200 community buildings and all street furniture
- process around 1,000 planning applications each year
- service almost one million people visiting the East Keilor and Ascot Vale Leisure Centres, the Queens Park Pool and Riverside Golf and Tennis Club
- implement around 100 new traffic and parking improvements each year
- conduct around 1,500 food safety inspections