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The Ballarat Prosperity Framework was adopted by Council in March 2020. In late 2019, the Ballarat is Open project asked you to share with us how you see Ballarat now, your vision for Ballarat in the future, and ideas on how you think we might get there. Approximately 650 residents engaged in this co-design process. From this, we developed the Ballarat Prosperity Framework. This document will give us a blueprin...

To effectively and efficiently carry out its business, Council delegates some powers, duties and functions to Council officers. Delegations from Council Instrument of Delegation S5 Council to Chief Executive Officer S6 Council to members of staff C4 Council to Community Impact Special Committee C4 Council to Contracts Approval Delegate...

Ballarat is known as a creative and innovative city. Those attributes have come to the fore during the COVID-19 pandemic with our business and tourism sectors finding ways to reinvent themselves and finding new ways to deliver their products and services.

Never before will Ballarat’s ‘visiting friends and relatives travel market’ be more relevant than when Victoria comes out of restrictions. That’s when our local residents will be encouraged to extend a lifeline to our tourism attractions in a show of solidarity and support.

A dedicated group of volunteers is recycling bikes and donating them back to the community. The City of Ballarat is partnering with this Y Ballarat initiative to encourage more primary school students to walk, ride or scoot to school when restrictions ease.

The City of Ballarat Council is part of our everyday life. It is involved in many aspects of our city. But did you know there is another Council in Ballarat? The City of Ballarat has a Youth Council, which is working to enhance opportunities and outcomes for Ballarat’s youth.

The Art Gallery of Ballarat’s latest exhibition, The golden pantomime, is a bold and vibrant celebration of domestic spaces and the rituals of everyday life.

Behind the red brick facade of Dinah McCance and Terry Baker’s Ballarat East home lie thousands of stories from Ballarat’s past.

In 2019, Ballarat residents heeded the call to ‘pass on glass’ and leave glass bottles and jars out of their yellow-lidded recycling bins. Now it’s time to ‘leave the bag out’.

Thousands of trees are being planted in the City of Ballarat’s largest ever tree planting program. The initiative will more than double the tree canopy across Ballarat by 2040 and help to deliver cooling effects to suburbs with higher summer temperatures.