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Working towards its goal of achieving zero landfill waste, Ballarat City Council will vote on trialing a cloth nappy and reusable sanitary products rebate at next Wednesday’s council meeting.  The six-month trial, which would commence 1 March if adopted, will be for 50% of the purchase price per household, with up to a maximum of $100. Each household will be eligible for one rebate per category.  The rebate will include cloth napp...

This week, I was at Mars Stadium for the announcement of a two-year extension to Mars Wrigley’s naming rights for our flagship sporting stadium.  We first entered into a five-year naming rights agreement with Mars in 2017, which has been a fantastic partnership between the City of Ballarat, Mars Wrigley and the Western Bulldogs Football Club.  Mars has not only called Ballarat home for more than 40 years but it is also one of our ...

The City of Ballarat has begun works to install six new cricket nets at Russell Square.  Works this week commenced on the $517,163 project, which includes $500,000 in funding from the City of Ballarat and $17,163 from the Victorian Government, to provide five cricket nets for the East Ballarat Cricket Club and a sixth cricket net dedicated to the community for use year-round.  The project includes earthworks and the installation o...

COMMUNITY IMPACT GRANT PROGRAM 2021/2022 – ROUND 3  Applications are being accepted for the third round of the City of Ballarat’s Community Impact Grant Program.   Who can apply?   Local, not-for-profit incorporated organisations are eligible to apply for Community Impact Grants. Non-incorporated groups may also apply if they have an auspice relationship with an incorporated group.   How do I apply?&...

Lake Wendouree will now be the host venue of the 2022 Australian Masters Rowing Championships.  The Championships were originally scheduled to be staged at Perth’s Champion Lakes, but due to Western Australia’s ongoing border closures and the evolving Omicron situation, Rowing Australia has rescheduled the event to Ballarat.  The Masters Championships, which draws competitors aged 27-plus, will be held on the weekend of May 19 to ...

The City of Ballarat is delighted to be able to announce Expressions of Interest are now open for the Circular Ballarat Champions.  Circular Ballarat Champions is an exciting new program that will support our Waste to Wellbeing project. The City of Ballarat is seeking individuals to nominate as local Circular Ballarat Champions to work with us and lead the community and businesses to develop circular principles and activities.   T...

A vision for future library services adopted

The City of Ballarat is investing $3.4 million to improve our network’s sealed roads.  The organisation and Council acknowledge the community’s frustration in relation to the city’s damaged road network and have been working on repairing as many of our roads as possible throughout summer.  A combination of ageing roads, traffic and wet weather has damaged the city’s road network, leading to an increase in potholes.   ...

Ballarat Council has voted unanimously to approve a motion to define the city’s new Growth Areas at Wednesday’s Council Meeting. The City of Ballarat will now apply to the Minister for Planning to obtain authorisation to amend the Ballarat Planning Scheme to rezone the growth areas to the Urban Growth Zone. A motion brought forward by Councillor Ben Taylor added a recommendation that Officers would report back to council on the progress o...

The City of Ballarat is on its way to reaching an organisational net zero emissions target by 2025.  A progress report on the implementation of the City of Ballarat’s Carbon Neutrality and 100% Renewables Action Plan presented at Wednesday night’s Ballarat City Council meeting shows emissions avoided as a result of implemented initiatives is about 15,000 tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2-eq) annually by 2025.  These reduction...