Less than a year after a major company restructure, another shake up looks to be on the way; this time in the form of further directorship name changes and more jobs scrapped.

Planning and Development, currently overseen by Louise Wakefield, will be among the hardest hit. It will be re-badged to ‘Growth, Strategy and Culture’, with significant additional business units.

While it all sounds very impressive and ‘forward-thinking’, the plans fail to address consultant concerns that current operations are too “top heavy”.

Instead, they’re advocating implementing an entire new layer of management. All this comes to light just days before final submissions to the State Government for Fit for the Future reviews are due.

It seems pointless to reformat an entire company structure, with no certainty of future operations.

To the casual observer, it might appear that, with council amalgamations looming, Goulburn Mulwaree Council is getting in early with possible forced redundancies.

Under the Local Government Act, there can’t be any forced redundancies for three years after an amalgamation, only voluntary redundancies.

Since being labelled ‘unfit’ by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal last month, Council has been stumbling in the dark trying to prove their worth to the forces that be.

Let’s call this for what it appears to be... a rush job.