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’s in it for you?
Councillors voted to adopt the Budget for the 2025/26 financial year. Focuses of this year’s Budget include road renewal, city infrastructure, early years education and sustainability. Significant investments include $45.8 million for capital works and $215.8 million to deliver essential community programs and support.
The council endorsement follows a four-week community consultation process, during which time Council received 46 submissions that the adopted Budget took into consideration.
Also approved was the 2025-29 Revenue and Rating Plan, which lays out how Council will raise the necessary funds to fulfil its Council Plan, programs and services commitments and capital works.
Want to know more about this year’s budget? Explore the Budget papers.
Planning permission for 3-7 Keilor Road
Council approved a planning permit application for the partial demolition and external alteration of a building at 3-7 Keilor Road. The permit also gives the green light for a five-storey construction that will house nine, three-bedroom apartments and two ground-floor commercial spaces.
Council crowns kinder contractors
A new-look Coronation Kindergarten and maternal child health building in Ascot Vale took another step towards construction, with council naming builders McColl Smith to complete the project. The $3 million project is one of five kindergartens in the Council and Victorian Government’s joint Early Years Building Block Program. The new building will increase the kinder’s capacity by 67 per cent – to 55 places! It’s expected the new kindergarten will start operation in the first term of 2027.
Powering ahead on public EV charging
Council have given the green light for providers JOLT Charge and Fast Cities Australia to install and maintain EV charging stations at a number of potential locations, including:
- Moonee Ponds Activity Centre
- Racecourse Road Activity Centre
- Military Road Shopping Precinct
- Albion Street Shopping Precinct
- Essendon Junction Activity Centre
- Niddrie (Keilor Road) Activity Centre
- Strathmore Activity Centre
- Keilor Park Drive Reserve
- Centreway Activity Centre
- Flemington Community Centre