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What was the scheme?

To be fair, minutes are a pretty niche area of interest, but they are nonetheless an important (and legally required) public record of how colleges are spending billions in taxpayers' funding each year on education for 16-19, adults and apprentices.

Here’s another recent example:

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Small town education - should the ever-restricted funding system justify a market town losing its vocational college?

Colleges as a local heritage guardian - do colleges have a duty to safeguard large legacy assets like theatres and stately homes?

How many millions in spending should the mayor approve before the public can get excited and and start asking questions?

Here's Campbell answering the question about whether Reform UK policies conflict with the interests of the regions.

Also, enjoy the weird automated shifting videos of the board and audience depending who's speaking

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No sign of drastic DOGE cost-cutting instincts yet as he green lit UKSPF funding, agreed to ask the govt for £1.6m in renewable energy grants for local projects, and agreed £20m in transport funding for local councils.

Campbell said he’d been elected by the people and was there to work for them, so that means no?

The new mayor then said nowt, while fellow board members (local Lib Dem and Tory council leaders) and officials chatted away about whether the adult skills strategy should prioritise farming and fishing.

Things were a tad more interesting in Hull and East Riding, under new Reform mayor Luke Campbell…

Who faced public questions about whether he’d be a Reform style anti-net zero mayor given that his region is, er… home to 8 operational offshore wind farms