Committee Recommendations The Committee recommended that: . Municipalities should use available funding to hire graders, for repairs and maintenance in order to deliver services; . The municipal engineer need to check the sewer network plan to establish whether it was properly designed; . LTLM should review policies on the establishment of an agency as the current ones are not doing what is required of them; . LTLM should also review human resources' policy with an aim to address the limitations of its workforce (including the possibility of early/voluntary retirement); . DME should continuously interact with the municipalities in order to support them (Section 154 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa); and . The Department of Transport, together with the Department of Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, should assist the LTLM with road infrastructure; and . The Department of Water and Environmental Affairs, together with the Department of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, should, as a matter of urgency, assist the municipalities on their water and sanitation issues.