Your wrap-up of Moonee Valley City Council meeting | Tuesday, 26 May 2026

Missed this month’s Moonee Valley City Council Meeting?

Below is a summary of some of the items resolved.

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.

Planning go-ahead for aged care

Council this month greenlit plans for a multistorey building at 25-29 Keilor Road in Essendon. The building will be home to both an aged care facility and a retail space.

Improving customer experience

A new Customer Charter and Complaints Management Policy were endorsed at the May Council meeting. The documents set out Council’s approach to complaints handling, and our expectations for how staff and residents will interact with one another.

The documents have already gone through community consultation, which has prompted Council to make several commitments around improved access to information about the complaints process, especially for residents with different accessibility needs.

Next steps for glass recycling

New glass drop off points in high-density areas will be available in Moonee Valley from next year following the successful trial of glass drop-off sites in 2025.

This expanded service was informed by feedback gathered during a recent community engagement period about glass recycling.

Council also endorsed plans to roll out kerbside glass bin service once the state government finalises its proposed standards for glass collection, and so long as there are no substantive material changes to the draft standards. The Moonee Valley plan would see bins collected once every two months.

Renaming Aspen Street

Community feedback is the next step in renaming two sections of Aspen Street in Moonee Ponds. The road is currently spilt into three sections, with two parts getting a new moniker to help avoid confusion.

For one part, respondents can indicate a preference for either “Bangarr” (Woi-wurrung for “centre”) or “Kathryn” after a former knitwear business in the street.

The other part of the street will be named either “Murrnda”, which means “deliver” in Woi-wurrung language, or “Marion” after a local architect and artist.

Anyone wanting to weigh in on the new names will be able to make their preference known via the Council’s Your Say page.

Grants galore

Residents, community groups and businesses working hard to make Moonee Valley great will share in more than $150,000 worth of community grant funding.

A program to keep teenage girls in community sport, a web series promoting local bakeries and the popular Puckle St Strada Classica car event are among the 21 projects that secured Council backing.

Got an idea for Moonee Valley that needs financial support? Our next Community Grants round opens in July this year. Keep an eye on Council channels for your opportunity to apply.

Future for Queens Park pool

Council this month noted a feasibility assessment of the historic Queens Park Swimming Pool in Moonee Ponds.

The pool has been around since 1958, and welcomes 23,000 visitors every season. As Moonee Ponds continues to grow, Council sought to understand what was needed to ensure the pool site best serves the community.

The report explored all options for the space, including redevelopment, decommissioning and maintaining the pool at its current standard.

Council agreed the pool should continue to be maintained at the current service standard.

Community consultation to consider trees, and the fraud policy

Council cares for more than 50,000 trees in streets, parks and reserves, all of which add to the biodiversity and neighbourhood character of Moonee Valley.

Council agreed to put out for community consultation a draft update to its Tree Management Policy. The community will be invited to shape a policy that makes clear our approach to managing, protecting and planting trees across the municipalit

The consultation is expected to open on June 10, and will close July 8.

Council is also inviting community feedback on its Draft Fraud and Corruption Control Policy, which reinforces a zero-tolerance approach to dishonest or unethical behaviour.

Under the policy, council is committed to preventing, detecting, reporting and responding to fraud and corruption across all areas of its operations.  Public consultation on the draft policy is open now until 23 June.

Resolving disputes

In another step to improve processes, a Councillor Internal Resolution Procedure has been revised to ensure councillor conduct matters are managed as effectively as possible, and in line with best practice and community expectations.

Contract to construct the Airport West Kindergarten

Council has awarded a contract to construct Airport West Kindergarten to McColl Smith.

The upgraded kinder has been awarded for $3.8 million, and will create 66 more places - offering families in the area a state-of-the-art educational facility for our youngest residents.

Reporting update

Several updates for quarter three, covering January to March this year, were tabled at the meeting. Council heard progress on priority projects as well as financial performance, councillor expenses, capital works, and the work health and safety report.