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  • Council innovation and performance
    • Performance reporting

      Performance reporting is a key part of our strengthening councils program. Read about the measures and checklists that make up the framework.

    • Sector guidance: planning and reporting

      Local Government Victoria provides a range of planning and reporting guides and templates to assist councils with planning, budgeting and reporting.

    • Procurement

      Councils play a vital role in procuring the goods, services and works needed to deliver key council services and infrastructure to the community.

    • Local laws

      Local law making guidelines, a manual and resources support councils to achieve best practice and ensure a consistent level of performance between councils.

    • Finance and Accounting Support Team

      The Finance and Accounting Support Team (FAST) program is designed to help improve the financial sustainability of rural and regional councils

    • Financial and asset management

      DELWP provides Victorian councils with guidance resources for council infrastructure, land and asset management.

    • Council community satisfaction survey

      Local Government Victoria’s annual community satisfaction survey compiles community feedback on councils in five key performance areas. Read the latest survey results and find previous surveys.

    • Council rates and charges

      Each council collects rates from residents and businesses in its municipality to help fund local infrastructure and services.

      • Calculating Rates
  • What we do
    • Local Government Victoria

      Local Government Victoria supports and regulates councils to ensure that Victorians enjoy a responsive, accountable and efficient system of local government

    • Ministerial Statement on local government

      In November 2020, the Minister for Local Government released a Ministerial Statement on Local Government outlining the priorities for Local Government moving forward.

    • International engagement

      Local Government Victoria exchanges knowledge and experience with a range of international partners.

  • Funding programs
    • Victorian Local Government Grants Commission

      The Victorian Local Government Grants Commission (VLGGC) allocates financial assistance grants from the Federal Government to local councils in Victoria. The Commission cannot provide grants for businesses, individuals or community groups.

    • Roadside Weeds and Pests Program

      The Roadside Weeds and Pests Program (RWPP) provides funding support to councils to plan and implement control activities for weeds and pests on municipal rural roadsides.

      • RWPP Allocations 2019-2020
      • Control Plan Assistance
    • Public Library Programs

      Victorian public libraries offer more than just borrowing books. You can do research, attend a seminar, hear your favourite author speak and bring your kids to story time.

    • Municipal emergency resourcing program

      The Municipal Emergency Resourcing Program (MERP) provides funds to rural, regional and outer-metropolitan councils across the state which helps councils plan and prepare for emergencies.

    • Community Infrastructure Loans Scheme
    • Rural Councils ICT Infrastructure Support Program
  • Council governance and integrity
    • Governance resources

      Archived governance resources of the Local Government Act 1989 and related Acts, policies and legislation. See Local Government Act 2020 for current legislation.

    • Local Government Act 2020
      • A principles-based Act
      • Implementation guidance
      • Newsroom
    • Local Government Bill 2019

      The Local Government Bill 2019 will deliver improved local government democracy, accountability and service delivery for all Victorians.

    • Councillor conduct framework

      The councillor conduct framework set out in the Local Government Act 2020 provides for the management of councillor conduct and councillor behaviour.

    • Independent reports

      Under the Local Government Act 2020, the Minister for Local Government may appoint independent bodies to provide advice to councils and report back on council structures, operations and governance.

    • Acts and regulations

      Victoria’s local government sector is administered under the Local Government Act 2020 and related Acts, policies and legislation.

    • Rating System Review
    • Candidate Training
  • Partnering with councils
    • Victorian State-Local Government agreement

      The 2014 Victorian State-Local Government Agreement is designed to build collaborative working relationships between state and local government.

    • Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Action Plan

      The Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Action Plan provides a framework to help councils engage with Aboriginal communities and promote reconciliation

      • Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Action Plan Review and Future Strategy
      • LUAA Compliance
    • Mayoral Advisory Panel

      The Mayoral Advisory Panel consists of mayors from across Victoria who provide high level advice on local government issues.

    • Gender equity

      Gender equality and diversity benefits all of us. It makes communities, councils and our State stronger.

  • Grants
    • Growing Suburbs Fund

      The Growing Suburbs Fund supports investment in critical local infrastructure in Melbourne's diverse and fast-growing interface and peri-urban councils.

      • The projects
      • Case Studies
    • Finance and Accounting Support Team

      The Finance and Accounting Support Team (FAST) program is designed to help improve the financial sustainability of rural and regional councils

    • Collaborative councils

      The Collaborative Council - Sustainability Fund Partnerships (CCSFP) Program supports Victorian councils to collaborate on projects focused on environmentally sustainability and improved services.

    • Living Libraries Infrastructure Program

      The Living Libraries Infrastructure Program helps Victorian councils and regional library corporations to provide high-quality library infrastructure to meet their communities’ changing needs.

    • Rural & Regional Councils Sustainability Reform

      Acting on the barriers and challenges, to long-term financial and operational sustainability for rural and regional councils

    • Women Building Surveyors Program
  • Resilience and emergency management
    • Councils and emergencies project

      Local Government Victoria is working with councils and the emergency management sector to enhance the emergency management capability and capacity of local government

    • Emergency management

      Local Government Victoria supports councils to work together to plan for their emergency management responsibilities before, during and after emergencies.

    • Coronavirus
  • Resources
    • Resource library

      Browse our library of resources and publications

Local Government Victoria

Local Government Victoria provides policy advice, oversees legislation and works with councils to support responsive and accountable local government services.

Council Elections

Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Action Plan

A framework to help councils engage with Aboriginal communities

Rating review

A better, fairer, clearer rates system

Coronavirus

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information

Local Government Act 2020

Local Government Act Implementation 2020

Local Government Victoria Newsroom

  • What we do
  • Council innovation and performance
  • Resilience and emergency management
  • Funding programs
  • Grants
  • Council governance and integrity
  • Partnering with councils

What we do

Local Government Victoria (LGV) provides policy advice, oversees legislation and works with Victoria’s 79 local councils to support responsive and accountable local government services.

  • Local Government Victoria
  • Ministerial Statement on local government
  • International engagement

Council innovation and performance

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  • Performance reporting
  • Sector guidance: planning and reporting
  • Procurement
  • Local laws
  • Finance and Accounting Support Team
  • Financial and asset management
  • Council community satisfaction survey
  • Council rates and charges

Resilience and emergency management

LGV provides local councils with support to enhance emergency management capability and capacity.

  • Councils and emergencies project
  • Emergency management
  • Municipal emergency resourcing program
  • Coronavirus

Funding programs

LGV administers a range of State and Commonwealth funding programs for municipal councils in Victoria. All Victorian government departments use the Victorian Common Funding Agreement when funding local government.

  • Growing Suburbs Fund
  • Victorian Local Government Grants Commission
  • Roadside Weeds and Pests Program
  • Public Library Programs
  • Municipal emergency resourcing program
  • Community Infrastructure Loans Scheme
  • Rural Councils ICT Infrastructure Support Program

Grants

Page Intro Metadata Field

  • Growing Suburbs Fund
  • Finance and Accounting Support Team
  • Collaborative councils
  • Living Libraries Infrastructure Program
  • Rural & Regional Councils Sustainability Reform
  • Women Building Surveyors Program

Council governance and integrity

Regulation and governance of local councils is determined by the Local Government Act 1989 and related Acts, policies and legislation.

  • Commission of Inquiry into South Gippsland Shire Council
  • Governance resources
  • Local Government Act 2020
  • Local Government Bill 2019
  • Councillor conduct framework
  • Independent reports
  • Acts and regulations
  • Rating System Review
  • Candidate Training

Partnering with councils

LGV has agreements and plans in place with local, national and international partner organisations and groups.

  • Victorian State-Local Government agreement
  • Victorian Aboriginal and Local Government Action Plan
  • Mayoral Advisory Panel
  • Local Government scholarships
  • Gender equity

Strengthening councils

Local Government Victoria is involved in a range of initiatives and activities that help strengthen Victoria’s 79 local councils.

  • Performance reporting
  • Sector guidance: planning and reporting
  • Procurement
  • Collaborative councils
  • Local laws

  • Local Government Bill 2019
  • Council community satisfaction survey
  • Council rates and charges
  • Gender equity
  • Past programs

Know Your Council

Find your council

Consultation and complaints

Council elections

Guide to councils

Compare councils

Strategic Directions Paper 2018-21

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We are committed to genuinely partner, and meaningfully engage, with Victoria’s Traditional Owners and Aboriginal communities to support the protection of Country, the maintenance of spiritual and cultural practices and their broader aspirations in the 21st century and beyond.

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