[3] In 2004 the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC), an independent authority created under Victorian state legislation, conducted a representation review of the council's electoral structure, resulting in a recommendation that the 10 single councillor wards be replaced by three multi-councillor wards.

In November 2021, it came to the council's attention that Moreland's namesake was indirectly associated with a Jamaican plantation site that had traded slaves up to the 1800s.

[4][5] This historical information was contained in the 2010 Moreland Council publication Thematic History,[6] and published in books and articles as far back as 1944.

[7] In October 1839, Scottish surgeon and settler Dr Farquhar McCrae was sold land between Moonee Ponds Creek and Sydney Road by the Crown in the area's first colonial sale.

Some suggest he may have taken this name from a Jamaican sugar plantation that his paternal grandfather Alexander McCrae worked at[8] from the late 1760s to the early 1790s, which was involved in slave trading,[7] and kept up to 500 to 700 enslaved people in the operation in any one year.

[9] Greens Mayor Mark Riley said "The history behind the naming of this area is painful, uncomfortable and very wrong.

This has now grown to a network of 16 public EV charging stations around the municipality which are powered by 100% zero emissions renewable energy from the Crowlands Wind Farm, near Ararat.

[22] This project developed and funded the construction of a purpose-built 39 turbine, 80 MW Crowlands windfarm, which started supplying 100% renewables power to Council facilities and buildings in 2019.

During 2021 City of Moreland supported a climate disaster levy on coal exports,[26] and endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative, the first government jurisdiction in Australia to do so.