The City of Perth council is set to find out tonight the result of a five-month investigation into its behaviour, when the local government inspector is expected to deliver an action plan to keep elected members in line.

It has been 85 days since the city’s monitor left WA’s capital city council, but Local Government Inspector Tony Brown is only now finalising the City of Perth’s monitor’s assessment with a report and action plan which The West Australian understands will be presented behind a closed doors meeting.

City of Perth monitor Carol Adams, who served as Kwinana’s mayor for 26 years, completed her five-month long appointment on June 19.

In correspondence to East Perth resident Vicki Raniszewski, seen by The West, Mr Brown said “a public guidance note outlining lessons learned from the City of Perth monitoring assignment will be released” after tonight’s meeting.

“I acknowledge the delay in finalising the report and appreciate that this has been a source of frustration,” he said in an email to the ratepayer.

“Thank you for your continued patience as the process nears completion.”

Ms Raniszewski had asked for a clear and definite update about the City of Perth monitor’s report including the inspectorate’s consideration of it.

“Carol Adams completed her appointment as Monitor on 19 June 2026. We are now more than two months beyond that date, yet there has still been no public announcement of the findings, outcomes or recommendations arising from that work,” Ms Raniszewski said.

“For some time, the advice provided has effectively been that an outcome is ‘coming soon’. Ratepayers were reasonably under the impression that there would be some form of outcome or announcement within approximately one month of the monitor completing her appointment. That timeframe has now well and truly passed.”

Mr Brown wasted no time in appointing a monitor to the city, sending Ms Adams in just two weeks into his new role in January. Perth was the first local government to be allocated a monitor.

It came after the city came under fire following a controversial proposal by Lord Mayor Bruce Reynolds for the city to spend up to $125,000 on an independent workplace culture review. The ensuing debate revealed serious issues between the council and administration.

Since then, an explosive psychosocial review report found staff were experiencing psychosocial harm, with some even requiring “medical intervention”.

The city’s chief executive Michelle Reynolds was suspended following a special meeting after Mr Brown put the council on notice on May 19.