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    • 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

      The Minister for Local Government’s 2015 Ministerial Statement on Local Government, outlining a range of local government reforms
      • Integrity and governance
      • Capacity and performance
      • Delivering for communities
    • International engagement

      Local Government Victoria exchanges knowledge and experience with a range of international partners.
  • Funding programs
    • Victoria Grants Commission

      The Victoria Grants Commission (VGC) allocates financial assistance grants from the Commonwealth Government to local councils in Victoria. It 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 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 peri-urban councils across the state which helps councils plan and prepare for emergencies.
    • Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Fund

      Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution (GAIC), a fund for essential infrastructure development in Melbourne’s growth areas of Cardinia, Casey, Hume, Melton, Mitchell, Whittlesea and Wyndham.
      • Growth Areas Infrastructure Contribution Projects
      • Funding Announcements
    • Community Infrastructure Loans Scheme
  • Council governance and integrity
    • Governance resources

      Regulation and governance of local councils is determined by the Local Government Act 1989 and related Acts, policies and legislation.
    • 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 1989 provides for the management of councillor conduct and councillor behaviour.
    • Independent reports

      Under the Local Government Act 1989, 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 1989 and related Acts, policies and legislation.
    • Rating System Review
  • 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 equity in local government will ensure a greater mix of insights and experiences shape local policy.
  • Grants
    • Growing Suburbs Fund

      The Growing Suburbs Fund supports investment in critical local infrastructure in Melbourne's diverse and fast-growing interface 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
  • 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
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      Browse our library of resources and publications

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We acknowledge and respect Victorian Traditional Owners as the original custodians of Victoria’s land and waters, their unique ability to care for Country and deep spiritual connection to it. We honour Elders past and present whose knowledge and wisdom has ensured the continuation of culture and traditional practices.

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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