Councillor resigns over £500k Llanfyllin school EU bus row
A prominent county councillor has stepped down after a school broke EU rules by spending £500,000 to transport pupils on buses from outside its catchment area.
Councillor Darren Mayor, Powys County Council's cabinet member for property, buildings and housing, resigned from his position yesterday.
Councillor Mayor, who represents the Llanwddyn ward and is a member of Llanfyllin High School's governing body, resigned from the cabinet following a cabinet decision in response to Wales Audit Office concerns that the school was spending the money on subsidising the transport costs of pupils from outside its catchment.
It was revealed that the school had broken EU rules and council policy, as it failed to tender the bus service for the 149 students from Shropshire and 38 from Powys given transport.
