. Elderly, destitute and vulnerable people needed to be included in housing allocation. . Planning should be aligned with funding and geotechnical testing should be done within the current financial year. . The district municipality should assist the municipalities in capacitating their employees. Due to heavy rainfall in the region, the delegation was unable to undertake further site visits and the planned visit to the OR Tambo District Municipality could not materialise. Therefore the delegation committed itself to visit the district another time as councillors expressed their willingness to have the delegation visit their areas.