It follows a June council meeting which endorsed the Northern Tasmania Development’s new proposal.

A report in April by tourism and management services firm Bill Fox And Associate found the North had missed out on major government funding opportunities under NTD’s previous model. 

It attributed this to ad hoc approaches and a disjointed view of strategic priorities, as the organisation was previously run by the councils. 

Cr Archer said a new board would foster greater cooperation.  

“Generally it’s the member councils in that Northern region trying to sort of cooperate and I think inevitably what happens there is sometimes there's competing interests. 

“I think if you can bring that back to ways of identifying regional projects of significance based on some sort of priority system, then it's probably got a chance of success I think.” 

She said a key priority for her local government was the Bell Bay port, and increasing opportunities for economic development.

Northern Tasmania Development executive officer Maree Tetlow said NTD and council shareholders had appointed an implementation committee/advisory board to review the transition. 

She said an independent chair will be accountable to council shareholders, which will require collaboration with the private sector and community services, as well as various levels of government.

“We'll still have a committee where the local government officers get together to discuss regional planning.

“But there will be other areas underneath the different economic pillars around like tourism, manufacturing and food and agriculture, they're the three primary ones,” Ms Tetlow said. 

Ms Tetlow said the organisation’s Local Government Committee met a fortnight ago and approved their budget for 2016/17. 

“The councils will hopefully continue to fund it for 16/17 but we'll have a more developed proposal for them to continue to fund it ongoing from there,” she said.