City of Benalla [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
City of Benalla
The City of Benalla was a local government area about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city, which was completely surrounded by the Shire of Benalla, covered an area of , and existed from 1948 until 1994.
History.
The Shire of Benalla was first incorporated as a road district on 4 September 1868, and became a shire on 3 September 1869.
On 1 September 1948, after considerable growth of Benalla as a regional centre, the Central Riding was
and the Shire of Mansfield.
The Rural City is governed and administered by the Benalla Rural City Council; its seat of local government and administrative centre is located at the council headquarters in Benalla. The Rural City is named after the main urban settlement located in the centre-north of the LGA, that is Benalla, which is also the LGA's most populous urban centre with a population of 10,331.
Council.
Council Current composition.
The council is composed of seven councillors elected to represent an unsubdivided municipality.