WINGECARRIBEE Shire Council has been forced to make a humiliating apology to the residents of Yerrinbool after it bulldozed a kids BMX bike track by mistake.

General manager David McGowan has taken full responsibility for the embarrassing blunder, which is being blamed on a "communication breakdown" within Council, and has pledged to rebuild the flattened DA-approved bike track by the end of the week.

Youngsters were outraged on Friday afternoon when a mechanical digger rumbled onto the community oval before completely demolishing a series of jumps on the dirt track.

Newly-elected councillor and Yerrinbool resident Nick Campbell-Jones met with Mr McGowan and Mayor Phil Yeo on Monday when the duo held their hands up and admitted that they were in the wrong.

It now appears that the pair made the decision last Monday during an inspection of the oval following complaints from the local soccer club over continued vandalism of the playing field.

During the visit, their attention was drawn to the nearby bike track, and wary of the current public liability climate, judged it to be unsafe due to the make-up of some of the exposed fill.

At Monday night's meeting of the Yerrinbool Community Association Facilities Management Committee, chairman Fred Hambridge relayed the good news that council was now planning to rebuild the bike track.

"I received a telephone call and an apology from the general manager at council earlier today saying it shouldn't have happened," he said.

"He took full responsibility for the decision and he is going to make sure the bike track is rebuilt as soon as physically possible. I'm happy with the apology and timeframe but there were a lot of angry people in Yerrinbool on Saturday until Council came to their senses."

But other members like Joan Payne were not so understanding and were still clearly smarting at the complete disregard given to their committee by Council when making the decision.