Keeping the community informed
Your wrap up of Moonee Valley City Council meeting | 22 July 2025
Your wrap up of Moonee Valley Council’s July Council Meeting Missed this month’s Moonee Valley City Council Meeting? Below is a summary of items debated and endorsed. Remember: you can attend Council Meetings in-person or tune into the livestream via the MVCC website. The video recording remains available at the conclusion of the meeting, as do…
Help us shape the future of Moonee Valley
MV2040 is our community’s long-term vision for Moonee Valley through to 2040. First developed in 2018, it guides Council’s work to help create the future our community wants. We’ve updated MV2040 and prepared a suite of new draft Strategic Plans, including the Council Plan (incorporating Health Plan and Disability Action Plan) for 2025-2029, to reflect…
Make your great idea a reality with a Moonee Valley biannual grant
Did you know that Moonee Valley City Council offers a range of community grants? Our grants program funds individuals, community groups and businesses to make Moonee Valley an even better place to live, work and play! Applications for the next round of Biannual Grants opens Thursday 24 July, and candidates have until 24 August to…
This is how a council grant helps reunite family violence survivors with their pets
A Moonee Valley City Council grant is empowering a local community organisation to keep family violence survivors connected with their much-loved pets. In 2022, Second Chance Animal Rescue received a four-year Partnerships Grant for its Safe House for Pets Program, which assists people fleeing violence to continue caring for their pets. The supports are also…
Open House comes to Moonee Valley in 2025
As part of the Open House Melbourne weekend festival, we’re opening our doors to grant exclusive access to three of Moonee Valley’s landmark buildings. Get behind the curtain at the Clocktower Theater, quench your curiosity about the fiery origins of the Incinerator Gallery, and step back in time at the Essendon Historical Society. From Saturday…
Ascot Vale Library is reopening!
We are thrilled to announce that renovations are complete at Ascot Vale Library and the branch will reopen on Monday 28 July. While the historic facade of the building has been retained and refreshed, the interior has been transformed and extended into a welcoming, sustainable, and accessible space that supports learning, creative programs and community…
Keeping an eye on parks to know what needs our attention
With so many parks and gardens around our city, we sometimes need a bit of help to know when something needs attention. We’ve started trialling cameras that monitor for changes in our environment – things like fallen tree branches or other potential hazards – and automatically alert our parks team that action is required. The…
Budget 2025-26 adopted at Council Meeting
Moonee Valley City Council is pleased to announce that the Budget for the 2025/26 financial year and the Revenue and Rating Plan 2025-29 have both been adopted by Council on Tuesday, 24 June. We would like to thank everyone who provided feedback during our community consultation period for the Draft Budget and Draft Revenue and…
Your wrap of Moonee Valley City Council meeting | Tuesday 24 June
Missed this month’s Moonee Valley City Council Meeting? Below is a summary of items debated and endorsed. Remember: you can attend Council Meetings in-person or tune into the livestream via the MVCC website. The video recording remains available at the conclusion of the meeting, as do Agendas and Minutes from past meetings. Budget 25/26 –…
What are you waiting for? New interactive theatre performance comes to Avondale Heights Library
What are we waiting for? A train, the dentist, lunch, judgement day, the end? Come along and join in this fantastic interactive theatre performance, where the whole room is a stage and the audience is part of the act. The Waiting Room by Born in a Taxi is a unique, unrepeatable performance unifying an audience…