A former mayor of Logan has welcomed the sacking of the city’s entire council and called for a wider inquiry into local government, including councillors' perks and their powers to allocate funding for pet divisional community projects.

Graham Able, who retired just prior to the 2016 local elections after 32 years as a councillor and was mayor from 2004 to 2008, said publicly a year ago the council needed to be “cleaned out” to restore the faith of ratepayers.

Former Logan City councillor Graham Able said councillors' access to discretionary funding for community projects made it difficult to unseat them.

Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe on Thursday announced the entire council would be dismissed and an administrator appointed, after suspended mayor Luke Smith and seven councillors were charged with fraud over the sacking of former chief executive Sharon Kelsey in 2018.

Mr Smith, the councillors and Ms Kelsey are separately embroiled in civil litigation over her sacking, which she has challenged in the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.