PHOTO: Youth Empowerment Program leader Azita Sobhani speaking to MTM-FM alongside program participants on 29 November 2024.
The future of the Youth Empowerment Program (YEP) is in doubt after shire councillors largely voted against seeking a grant to re-fund it.
The million-dollar grant under the NSW government's Regional Economic Development and Community Investment Program would have required Council to pay a 20 per cent co-contribution as a funding condition.
Without a report detailing how the funds would be expended, what outcomes were expected or . . .
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