Issue - decisions

The Executive Meeting considered the outcome of an independent assessment of the Council’s greenspace, waste collection and street cleansing (including grounds maintenance) functions and agreed that:-

·      the planned programme Investing in Stockport be used to formulate the scope of any extension to these contracts beyond 31 March 2017;

·      the Council should determine whether or not to renew these agreements with regard to the provision of the Council’s Greenspace, Waste Collection, Street Cleansing (including grounds maintenance) services no later than 31 March 2015;

·      an extension to the highway and street lighting maintenance contract for a further 12 months to 31 March 2015 be agreed, with a clear and binding agreement for SSK to implement new ways of working by 1 May 2014; and

·      in the event that SSK do not implement new ways of working, the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration, in consultation with the Executive Councillor (Communities & Sustainability), be authorised to determine whether or not to review the Council’s options with regard to the provision of the Highway and Street Lighting Maintenance in Q2 of 2014/15.

(Note: the report includes information ‘not for publication’ in its appendix that has been circulated to executive councillors only)