The Mininera and District Football League will implement a salary cap for the 2017 season.
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League board member Brendan Kelly said the final amount had not been decided.
“The Mininera league will definitely have a salary cap next year,” Kelly said.
“We will get the feedback from AFL Victoria and then discuss it at our October board meeting. And then we will pass the information along to the clubs.”
AFL Western District hosted an information session in August to gain some feedback on the draft policy.
AFL Western District region manager Lachy Patterson said it was a beneficial night for all involved.
"The draft version of the salary cap policy was distributed to clubs beforehand,” Patterson said.
"The information session was a really interactive session where clubs could ask questions and gain a better understanding of the policy.”
Patterson said the feedback regarding the policy has generally been positive from Mininera and District clubs.
"The majority of clubs understand the reasons why a cap is required,” he said.
"The revised draft policy is currently on the desk of AFL executives and I am certainly hopeful it will be out as soon as possible.
"We are keen to start the implementation of the policy once it is all ticked off.”
Hawkesdale-Macarthur Football Club president Des Cameron said the new policy will create even more work for volunteers.
"We are not in favour of the salary cap,” he said.
“We have no issue with the proposed amount but we do have concerns about the complexities of enforcing it.
"We think there are certain grey areas that will be especially hard to enforce.”
The AFL brought in a points system to try and equalise each team from poaching excessive outside talent from other areas.
Cameron said that should be all that is needed.
"We thought the points system would straighten out all the disparities,” he said.
"When we went to the AFL Victoria meeting, we brought up the workload and paperwork issue.
"We got told to employ an accountant to implement the paperwork correctly.
“If we do that, it just adds more costs to all the clubs to maintain additional records.
"So it puts a lot of volunteers and individuals that run our club.
"The ramifications if you get it wrong are something you definitely want to avoid.”