two years later, in mid-september 2014, it was reported that the state government had sacked the four remaining canning councillors, to be replaced by a panel of three new commissioners upon the end of commissioner reynolds' tenure on 16 september. as part of the department of local governments' plans, in which the number of local councils would have been reduced drastically, it was announced that the city of canning would be split up and merged into neighbouring local areas, including the city of gosnells and city of melville. since the failure of the state government's council merger process, the governor's order for the merger has been revoked.