We are
Merri-bek City
Council.
Welcome to
our annual
report.
From our Mayor and CEO.
We are so proud of the resilience of the Merri-bek community. The past financial year has seen us face unprecedented challenges.
Here you can learn more about what we have achieved over the past year. And discover more about our priorities and performance.
Delivering
services
to you.
We provide more
than 150 services
to our community,
including:
1,183 planning applications
75,848 meals delivered
5,040 trees planted
487,202 library visitors
893,477 attending Active Merri-bek facilities
11,929 tonnes of food and garden waste collected
COVID-19 had an impact on every part of our work in the final months of 2019-20.
Our Boost for Business program supported local traders.
We gave $80,000 in grants to help the community respond to the pandemic.
We built and maintained infrastructure to support the wellbeing of our community.
For more information on our achievements, read the our performance section of this report. There we talk about how we have delivered our services and the challenges we faced.
Our performance
About our finances.
This site shows how we have managed our finances over the past year.
Our total income for the year was $221.293 million. There was an increase in income of $3.842 million (or 1.8%) compared to 2018-19. This was largely due to the growth in income from rates.
Our total operating expenses for the year were $190.151 million. The largest part of this was the cost of employing our staff.
You can find out more in the financial overview.
There we talk about where our income comes from and how we use it to deliver services.
Financial overview
