While the 2021-22 budget and revenue and rating plan will both be voted on at Wednesday night's council meeting, there are a further seven agenda items that have a particular focus on the medium-term future of the city.

Included in that are events and visitor economy strategies which are hoped to be able to help relieve some pressure on the sectors hardest hit by the last 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The events strategy is an eight-year roadmap for the attraction, development and delivery of events in the city while the visitor economy strategy outlines the immediate actions for council and the associated industries to rebuild from the pandemic.

City of Ballarat chief executive Evan King said the two strategies, and connected traveller experience plan, were important for the city's economic recovery.

"Having a clear strategy around how we're going to go about that, how we're going to drive visitor experience, products, attraction, all those sorts of things, are really vital for us going forward and vital anyway, but in a COVID recovery sense, become even more in important," he said.

"The hospitality, tourism, accommodation areas have been the most impacted by COVID and the restrictions and we really need to work with them and help support them to get back on their feet."

Mr King said with an extensive amount of consultation having already taken place before the draft budget was made public, there was little to change before the budget was put to council.

"Because the budget was developed with probably the most community engagement that a budget has ever been developed on in Ballarat before... there hasn't been a need to make major changes as a result of putting the draft out because a lot of community inputs and priorities had already been reflected in there," he said.

Also on the agenda are a draft council plan, draft community vision and draft municipal public health and wellbeing plan.

See the agenda here.

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