Des Moines, Iowa — Governor Kim Reynolds says they are getting the documentation together to provide justification for spending 450-thousand dollars of federal COVID relief funding on staff salaries last spring.
Reynolds is a Republican and Democrat State Auditor Rob Sand released a report last week accusing her of improperly using the funds. Reynolds says they had to be sure the state had all the ventilators, supplies, and tests needed, and that took all of their time.
Reynolds says most governors and their staff were doing the same thing across the country as the pandemic took hold.
Auditor Sand accused the governor of trying to hide the use of the money because it wasn’t listed as an individual department expense for the employees who worked on her team.
The governor says all the supporting information will soon be ready soon to send to federal officials to verify the use of the funding.
