1.      To authorise the Director of Community Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Community Services, to award a contract for highways grass cutting as detailed within the report and enter into the appropriate legal agreements in order to meet the required timescales allowing the contract to be operational by April 2017.

2.      To authorise the Director of Community Services, in consultation with the Executive Member for Community Services, to award  a contract for food waste disposal as detailed within the report and enter into the appropriate legal agreements in order to meet the required timescales allowing the contract to be operational by April 2017.