Moreland residents have decided on the likely new name for their council.

The Moreland City Council moved to change its name earlier this year due to its association with a Jamaican sugar plantation which used slave labour.

Indigenous elders put forward three potential new names — Jerrang, Wa-dum-buk and Merri-bek, which were then put to residents to vote on.

Merri-bek — which means rocky country in the local Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language — received 59 per cent of the vote.

Councillors are expected to endorse the new name at a meeting on Sunday. It will then be put to the Andrews government for consideration and finally approval by the governor.

Moreland City Council mayor Mark Riley says the change should happen “some time in the next three months”.

“It could be weeks but probably more likely to be a couple of months,” he told Tom Elliott.

Mr Riley says there’s “no expectation” that non-council entities which use the ‘Moreland’ name will change their names.

The mayor says the name change will require an initial financial outlay, but the council “won’t be trying to change everything in a hurry”.

“We’ve been costing this out at about $250,000 in the first year, and the same in the second year to get all of our major signs changed on our buildings and facilities, and…  of course our online presence, our emails and all that will need to have a name change.

“Thereafter, a lot of the smaller signage and other insignia will be changed just in the course of natural attrition.”

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