Former paparazzo-turned-regional mayor Darryn Lyons has been accused of creating a culture of bullying, as he and his council are expected to be sacked by the Victorian government.

A report on the council, the result of an independent Commission of Inquiry, claims rampant bullying and harassment among councillors and staff inside Geelong Council.

The report levels a range of abuse allegations involving Mr Lyons and other councillors, often directed at staff.

"F--- me, I'm the mayor, I don't need to be meeting with someone one week and then meeting with them the next," Mr Lyons reportedly told one staff member.

The report claims Mr Lyons threatened to close down a local business after yelling at their staff, then later told investigators he did not remember the interaction.

A council manager also reportedly took to a chemicals shed with an axe, after a pregnant worker had asked for some ventilation.

"Ventilation, I'll give you f---ing ventilation," the manager said before swinging an axe at the shed walls, according to the report.

Local Government Minister Natalie Hutchins introduced legislation into parliament today to dismiss the "dysfunctional" Geelong council.

The bill will make ratepayers unable to elect a new council until 2020, with an administrator expected to run the city until then.

The bill passed the lower house late this afternoon but the Greens and Coalition have expressed significant concerns, which could mean the government will be forced to make concessions to get it through the upper house.

“While that date of 2020 is in the bill we won’t be supporting it, we’re concerned about local democracy for Geelong,” Greens MP Samantha Dunn told 9NEWS.

The council will be dismissed on the grounds it failed to provide good government because it could not work together in the city's best interests, failed to provide a long-term vision and strategy for Geelong, and failed to properly respond to a 2015 report that found a systemic culture of bullying.

Ms Hutchins said the inquiry report's findings left the state government "no choice but to dismiss the council".

"The people of Geelong deserve better. The city is too important for it to be run by a dysfunctional council that is simply unable to work together," she said.

The Coalition say the state government is rushing the bill’s introduction.

“The government is rushing and botching the implementation of what should be a reform process for the City of Geelong,” Opposition leader Matthew Guy said.

The mayor concedes his council isn’t perfect but sees himself as the victim of a political stitch-up.

“At the end of the day this is all about party politics and that is a sad indictment on today’s democracy,” he told 9NEWS.

The Commission of Inquiry was set up in late 2015 following a damning investigation by former commissioner with the Australian Human Rights Commission, Susan Halliday.

Ms Halliday found an endemic culture of bullying, sexism and favouritism within the council.

Mr Lyons sent out a message on twitter saying goodbye, "Goodbye Geelong I will always love you," the mayor tweeted.