Bland Shire mayor Neil Pokoney admits he is “very concerned” about the Fit for the Future reform process and has called on member for Cootamundra Katrina Hodgkinson to do whatever it takes to ensure the council continues to stand alone.

“Katrina (Hodgkinson) has been supportive in what she has said, but what she has said is left to interpretation and a little ambiguous,” Cr Pokoney said.

“I want Katrina to come out and say if there is a proposal that comes to parliament that (stipulates) Bland Shire be forced to amalgamate, that she will put her people before her politics and cross the floor.”

Bland Shire Council was found to be not fit for the future in the recent Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal Report into the state’s councils, owing to concerns over scale and capacity as well as infrastructure and service management.

It had been identified by the Independent Local Government Review Panel as a potential merger panel for either Coolamon or Temora councils.

Cr Pokoney has called on Ms Hodgkinson and other Nationals MPs to stand firm and help resist amalgamations, arguing their electoral support will be “decimated” at the next election if they don’t.

“I think it will be very messy for a long time if the amalgamations go ahead,” Cr Pokoney said.

“I think there’ll be deep resentment and, for me, one of the issues is the fact that at no time has any substantive evidence been given to say what these improvements (from amalgamations) look like.”

Ms Hodgkinson told the Advertiser on Saturday she had been "very clear" she would support councils in her electorate to stand alone if they wished so long as they had followed the necessary processes.

"(Cr Pokoney) shouldn't be concerned about me," she said.

Should the government go ahead with amalgamations, however, Ms Hodgkinson said she understood it wouldn’t be done through legislation and it wouldn’t go to the floor of the parliament.

“If there was going to be, and I don’t believe there would be, I would need to look at (the legislation),” Ms Hodgkinson said.