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The City of Ballarat is helping residents prepare their properties for the upcoming fire season with free green waste week.     Between Saturday 12 November and Sunday 20 November, residents can drop off their domestic green waste free of charge at City of Ballarat Transfer Station.     Despite recent and forecasted wet weather, it is important residents are prepared for the upcoming fire season. Now is the time to identif...

Ballarat Town Hall is set to be transformed into a pop-up library while redevelopment works are conducted at the Central Ballarat Library on Doveton Street.  To be known as Ballarat Library at Town Hall, the city’s newest library is expected to open mid-November.  The temporary shift is necessary due to the $7,484,031 Ballarat Central Library redevelopment and upgrade, with the tender awarded at the October Ordinary Council Meetin...

This is my final message as my two-year term as Mayor of the City of Ballarat draws to a close. What a surreal time it has been with many highs and lows since my election in October 2020.    It has been both an honour and a great privilege to serve the City of Ballarat as its Mayor over the past two years.    In my election speech of October 2020, I mentioned that I would lay down foundations that will set the city up fo...

Ballarat residents are being encouraged to have their say on the priorities of the City of Ballarat’s proposed 2023/24 Annual Budget.     During November, The City of Ballarat is seeking residents’ feedback regarding their priorities within the Council Plan 2021 – 2025.   There are two ways residents can provide feedback — via an online survey or at one of the scheduled drop-in sessions. There will be two drop-in sessions, inc...

Tender documents can be obtained from www.eprocure.com.au/ballarat   Tender No  Tender Description  Closes   12 noon   2022/23-227  Landscaping Botanical Gardens Fernery  09/11/2022  2022/23-214E  EOI - Bakery Hill Main Building and Civil Works  ...

City of Ballarat councillors will elect a new mayor and deputy mayor at a council meeting tonight.  After two years in the role, current City of Ballarat Mayor, Cr Daniel Moloney, will not be re-contesting the position of mayor.  He said it had been both an honour and a great privilege to serve the City of Ballarat as its mayor for the past two years.   “Despite a pandemic trying to disrupt our progress, we have found true...

The City of Ballarat has welcomed the promise from the Australian Labor Party recently that it will commit $1 million to the redevelopment of the Brown Hill Reserve if it retains government at the 26 November Victorian state election.    City of Ballarat Mayor Cr Daniel Moloney said the reserve is much loved by the local community and will be increasingly important as a community leisure and recreation space ...

Image credit: Larry Villa Pouca 2022 The City of Ballarat has welcomed a promise from the Australian Labor Party on Friday that it will commit $500,000 to a Continuous Voices Memorial if it retains government at the 26 November Victorian state election.  City of Ballarat Mayor Cr Daniel Moloney said the Continuous Voices Memorial will be a public space to acknowledge and honour survivors of sexua...

City of Ballarat councillors have elected Cr Des Hudson as mayor and Cr Amy Johnson deputy mayor for the 2022/23 term.    Councillors serve a four-year term, and mayors and deputy mayors are elected annually. This election marks current City of Ballarat councillors’ third year in office.     This is the second time Cr Hudson has served as mayor, having held the position over the 2015-2016 period, and Cr Johnson’s third te...