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MEDIA ALERT: Moonee Valley Council adopts Budget 2024-25
Moonee Valley City Council has adopted its budget for the 2024-25 financial year. At its meeting on Tuesday, 25 June in its Moonee Ponds chambers, the Council adopted the budget, following a public consultation period on the Draft Budget from 26 April to 17 May, during which a record 107 submissions were received and reviewed. …
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Moonee Valley scores top ‘MobileMuster’ mantle
When it comes to rounding up unwanted mobile phones – or bits of them – Moonee Valley has proven itself a master of the muster. Last week the City of Moonee Valley was named the top collector among Victorian local governments in the annual MobileMuster for the 2023-24 financial year. Through the Council’s transfer station…
Moonee Valley’s future – have your say
What will the City of Moonee Valley look like in the decades to come? More importantly, what do you think it should look like? Everyone who lives, works in or visits Moonee Valley, is invited to share their ideas online – and in-person at a series of community pop-ups that begin this weekend – as…
Airport rail link must go ahead: Moonee Valley Mayor
The City of Moonee Valley Mayor, Cr Pierce Tyson, has vowed to fight a further four-year delay to the long-awaited Melbourne Airport Rail Link project, following today’s Victorian Budget announcement. Mayor Tyson has written to the major shareholders of the airport urging their intervention in an effort to secure the airport rail link’s future. Treasurer…
Venture into the night with Valley Sounds
What’s that sound as the sun goes down? It’s Moonee Valley’s bars, motels, restaurants, cafes and theatres coming to life at night, with musicians playing soul, jazz, r’n’b, blues, flamenco, indie pop, Irish jams and more, for Valley Sounds. From 17–26 May, almost 30 free live shows will be presented across Moonee Valley for Valley…
New councillor for Moonee Valley after countback
The Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) today declared Jessica O’Neil as Councillor-elect for the City of Moonee Valley’s Buckley Ward, following a vote countback on Monday 29 April to fill a vacancy. The VEC held a countback of all formal votes from the last Moonee Valley Council election, held in 2020, with O’Neil emerging as the…
MEDIA RELEASE: Have your say on Council’s draft budget and priority initiatives
A $50-million capital works program and $220.96 million to deliver critical community services are the core items in the Moonee Valley Council’s draft budget for 2024/25. With the draft budget endorsed at Tuesday’s meeting of Council, community feedback is now invited to help shape the final budget. Along with the budget of capital works projects…
MEDIA RELEASE: Moonee Valley’s $20-million ‘kinder surprise’
The announcement of more than $20 million in Victorian Government funding for upgrades to five Moonee Valley kindergartens will see more than 500 new kinder places become available in the inner north-west municipality by 2028-29. The Building Blocks Partnership, a joint venture between the Victorian Government and the City of Moonee Valley, was announced today…
MEDIA RELEASE: New school boundaries “a life-changing win”
The City of Moonee Valley has welcomed the announcement of new secondary school zone boundaries for Avondale Heights, which will enable secondary students from the suburb to attend schools in their own municipality from next year. Last week, the Minister for Education and Deputy Premier, Hon Ben Carroll MP, released an updated map of school…
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MEDIA STATEMENT: Cam Nation resigns from Moonee Valley Council
Former Buckley Ward councillor, Cam Nation, has resigned from Moonee Valley Council, effective Tuesday, 26 March 2024. Mr Nation was elected as a councillor for three terms, across Myrnong and Buckley Wards. The Minister for Local Government and Victorian Electoral Commissioner have been notified of the resignation and the VEC is expected to fill the vacancy…