Committee Recommendations The Committee recommends that: . Provincial Treasury and Provincial and National Department of Co- operative Governance and Traditional Affairs should assist the municipality as they are aware that it was struggling; . VLM should table its solar system project to ESKOM as it was involving electricity; . VLM should consider using prepaid electricity system for communities in order to minimise bad debts; . National Treasury, Provincial Treasury, Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited and the VLM should discuss and resolve the dispute between Infrastructure Finance Corporation Limited and the VLM; and . The VLM should operate on the cheapest model for the removal of refuse.