A group of angry ratepayers say they've had enough of the council's controversies and want to sort them out in a public forum.

At the top of its list is former chief executive officer Victor Szwed's bullying accusations against councillor Bill McClenaghan and the associated $100,000 legal costs to be paid by ratepayers.

The meeting will be at Daylesford Town Hall next Wednesday at 7pm.

"The purpose of the meeting is to establish a true partnership between residents, council and its employees to improve the quality of decision making," organising committee member Christina Read said.

Another bullying allegation involving infrastructure director Rod Conway and Coliban Ward Cr Heather Mutimer was quashed late last year before it was made public.

Ms Read said most ratepayers believed the bullying accusations were false.

"It is firmly believed that the charge was spurious and was made as a means of continuing to refuse to answer questions put by councillors who were following their democratic duties, as laid out in the Australian constitution,"

Ms Read said.

It won't be the first time ratepayers have run their own meeting. On January 5, about 100 people who turned up to a council meeting moved to reconvene their own meeting after councillors and council officers moved the meeting in camera.

The meeting's leaders vowed to arrange another public meeting that night.

At meetings attended by The Advocate over the past six months there has been almost unanimous support for councillors Bill McClenaghan and Heather Mutimer.

"We applaud the move in Hepburn Shire to instigate a series of consultative meetings between council officers and the general public and a series of meetings to review the structure plans for Hepburn Shire's main towns, which we understand will then be incorporated in the shire's planning scheme," Ms Read said.

"However, there are many other areas in which the shire council can improve its performance."

Ms Read said the council needed to be more transparent, provide more information to councillors, improve record keeping and introduce best practice guidelines, particularly within the planning department.