Steph Cooke MP
Member for Cootamundra

Steph Cooke MP at the 9th Cootamundra Mayoral Summit. A week after calling for transparency over its proposed council funding overhaul, Member for Cootamundra Steph Cooke has welcomed the NSW Local Government Grants Commission’s announcement that it will not proceed with the changes. The Commission proposed sweeping changes to how it allocates Financial Assistance Grants to local councils, which would have reduced general-purpose funding for most councils in the Cootamundra