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Gifts to Council staff 

Gift giving at Yarra City Council.

The team at Yarra City Council are here to support you as we work together to build a great community in the City of Yarra.

If you’ve had a positive experience with our team, and you’d like to show your appreciation, we would welcome an email. Ask for your feedback to be shared with the team member and their manager.

Please do not offer a gift or hospitality.

Yarra City Council is guided by a Staff Code of Conduct [ PDF, 259.35 KB] and Staff Gifts and Hospitality Policy [ PDF, 102.44 KB] and there are very few circumstances in which a gift can be accepted by an individual.

Often when gifts are received, unfortunately they are returned to the gift giver, disposed of or donated to charity.

In some circumstances, the offer of a gift could be considered an inducement and could disqualify the gift giver from a tender or procurement process, a recruitment process, a grant application, an expression of interest or other application of some kind.