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What’s on tonight’s Campaspe council agenda?

By Jemma Jones

Jul 21, 2026

From pushing for public minutes to auditing a decade of ratepayer spending, here’s what’s in store at tonight’s Campaspe council meeting. Photo by McPherson Media Group

Closed-door meetings and ten years of council spending are set to come under the microscope tonight as Campaspe Shire councillors return to the chamber with a series of motions.

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Following last month’s budget-heavy agenda, tonight’s meeting shifts focus to policymaking and progress reports, as well as a few councillor-led motions.

Agenda breakdown

– Policy decisions: one regarding sponsorship, the other about shire-wide child safety.

– Progress report: draft Jaycee Park masterplan. Council will also decide on whether they back smaller interim projects addressing immediate community concerns about the park.

– Statutory planning: Council will request state government to rezone School Rd, Gunbower land from Public Conservation and Resource Zone to Farming Zone 1.

– Flood studies: Seeking ministerial approval to implement the Kyabram and Echuca Moama flood studies.

Cr Adrian Weston is putting forward a proposal to make councillor briefing meeting minutes available to the public.

He will be requesting minutes for typically closed-door meetings to be published for public eyes, in accordance with council’s commitment to transparency, accountability and good governance.

Cr Jessica Mitchell will be calling for a detailed report examining actual versus budgeted council spending from 2015/16 through to 2025/26.

The report she is proposing will have a year-by-year breakdown of capital works and expenditure to each township across Campaspe Shire, as well as a comparison of the spending and a clear identification of “shire-wide” or “other” spending.

For a full wrap-up of tonight's council meeting outcomes, stay tuned to The Riv online over the coming week.