DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds and Democratic congresswoman Cindy Axne were among the 16 state officials to attend the first meeting of a flood recovery advisory board created by Reynolds to help Iowa towns flooded last month.
Reynolds invited Axne to be part of the board, which met Wednesday to begin developing a plan for repairing hundreds of miles of levees and helping thousands of home and business owners.
Axne made clear flood recovery is “not a partisan issue. This is something we’re all working on hard together.”
Reynolds estimates 25,000 homes and more than 4,200 businesses were damaged, and some may now be ruined. The group expressed concern that in some cases, money allocated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for repairs may be far short of what’s needed to rebuild.
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