We are
Moreland City
Council.
Welcome to
our annual
report.
From our CEO and Mayor.
On this site you can find out more about the past financial year in Merri-bek.
You can read about how we faced the challenges of COVID-19. And how we kept delivering for you despite the restrictions.
Please explore and discover more about Merri-bek’s past year.
Delivering
services
to you.
We provide more
than 150 services
to our community,
including:
1,302 planning applications
71,173 meals delivered
2,885 trees planted
162,817 library visitors
300,582 visits to year-round aquatic and leisure facilities
13,070 tonnes of food and garden waste collected
2 new parks opened
2,000+ people shared their vision for Merri-bek
We supported our community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We completed more of our action plan to fight climate change.
Our advocacy on level crossing removals saw new open space equal to 2 MCGs.
We employed over 300 people affected by the COVID-19 recession.
We expanded our Maternal and Child Health services.
We started work at the Glenroy Community Hub.
For more information on our achievements, read the our performance section of this report. We talk about how we have delivered our services and the challenges we faced.
Our performance
How we were affected.
The COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on every part of our work during 2020-21.
This site shows the ways we offered crisis support. It explains the changes to our services.
We employed more staff and gave support to local businesses and the arts.
About our finances.
On these pages we show how we have managed our finances over the past year.
Our total income for the year was $238.374 million. There was an increase in income of $17.965 million (or 8.2%) compared to 2019-20. This was largely due to an increase in grant funding.
Our total operating expenses for the year were $208.982 million. The largest part of this was the cost of employing our staff.
You can find out more in the financial overview section.
There we talk about where our income comes from and how we use it to deliver services.
Financial overview
