Issue - meetings

Recommendation from Special Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Committee held on 1 March 2017

Consideration was given to a recommendation from the Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Committee of 1 March 2017 regarding external amenity contracts across all areas.

Decision

The Committee agreed that a report be submitted to the appropriate Committee by the Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services providing detail on the external amenity contracts across all areas.

(Reference: Extract from Minute of Mid Argyll, Kintyre and the Islands Area Committee held on 1 March 2017 and report by Executive Director – Development and Infrastructure Services dated February 2017, submitted)

Report by Executive Director of Development and Infrastructure Services

The Committee gave consideration to a report proposing to adjust the specification of grassland maintenance in response to the representations made following the implementation of changes in 2016/17.

Decision:

The Area Committee agreed to:

1.    approve the amended grass cutting proposals detailed in the report subject to the cyclical cuts being implemented at 14 cuts per year across all areas to be managed within existing budgets; and

2.    recommend to the Environmental Development and Infrastructure Committee that a report is submitted providing detail on the external amenity contracts across all areas.

Councillor Currie, having moved an amendment which failed to find a seconder required his dissent from the foregoing decision to be recorded.

(Ref:  Report by Executive Director of Development and Infrastructure Services, dated 1 March 2017, submitted.)