Issue - decisions

DCLG Weekly Collection Support Fund

11/10/2012 - DCLG Weekly Collection Support Fund

(1) To AGREE that if a funding award is made by DCLG from the weekly collections support fund:

(a) The Council commits to keeping a weekly refuse collection service until 2016/17 and, assuming that the award is for the full amount of the bid, allocates £1.6 million to do this;

(b) The Council allocates the remainder of the funding awarded to projects which are designed to minimise and recycle more waste.

(2) To DELEGATE authority to the Divisional Director of Environmental Services in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Neighbourhoods to agree the detail of the award and the delivery of associated projects with DCLG; and

(3) To NOTE that Council as part of its budget setting process will consider the allocation of resources towards achieving its waste and recycling objectives in the light of the money available from DCLG and the conditions attached thereto.