She approached council to fund a simple solution - solar lighting - during its 2019/2020 public budget hearing.

Ms Evers was among the 13 people or groups represented at the public hearing for the proposed budget, which council endorsed in April.

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Ms Evers said she had 40 signatures within an hour when she went out to the Crook Street Dog Park one night about 7.30pm to take a poll about light.

Ms Evers approached the council with a possible solution for the darkness of the park during peak hours in winter: 50 watt, programmable solar lights, with security cameras attached.

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"Families are arriving in pitch black and the kids are trying to play soccer in a dog park in this kind of darkness," Ms Evers said.

"It's the people that work, they go home, at six o'clock they grab the dog, they go down to the dog park."

The last tram to run to Eaglehawk might be the next big tram on Bendigo Heritage Attractions' restoration list.

Heritage Attractions chief executive Peter Abbott said that, if restored, the tram would be wheelchair accessible, and could go on display in Eaglehawk.

It wasn't in their budget submission, but this was one of the ideas Heritage Attractions was exploring, Mr Abbott said.

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Pop-up pod trams were another. A tram pod created by Bendigo Tramways for Melbourne Airport has been a great welcome to the city, he said.

In Bendigo he saw opportunities to take a tram like that around to activate city spaces.

It followed the popular Royal Tram, which appeared beside Pall Mall during the Tudors to Windsors exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery.

"We've had a great reaction to the royal tram that has appeared in Charing Cross," Mr Abbott said.

"The Bendigo community has seized onto something that's quite unique about Bendigo."

Mr Abbott said Heritage Attractions had been working hard to move off its gasworks site, which had meant deferring some capital project such as tram track restoration.

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He said Heritage Attractions wanted to be considered as part of the future for the gasworks, even though they don't yet know what shape the plans would take.

"We obviously think the gasworks is a great opportunity for redevelopment and renewal," Mr Abbott said.

"Once the gasworks future is decided or is being determined, we want to be a part of that opportunity."

Mr Abbott thanked the council for continued upgrades of Bendigo's tram tracks.

Works to Pall Mall in June will be the first time these tracks have been restored since 1903, Mr Abbott said.

The committee levelled for some council staff hours.

The Bendigo-Maubisse Friendship Committee hoped the council would be able to support them in this way in their work developing a friendship relation with the district in Timor Leste.

Committee member Barry Secombe said 13 hours of employee time would give the committee the administrative support and strategic planning they needed to make the group more effective.

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There was $30,000 allocated to the group in the budget, Mayor Margaret O'Rourke said. The sum allocated had originally been higher.

Mr Secombe said the idea of using staff time was a lateral solution to the difference.

The extra $20,000 would have gone to maintaining and continuing existing programs, particularly in the area of oral health, he said.

Assisting in exchanges of oral health professionals is among the work the committee does.

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