MASON CITY, IA - An area city administrator is excited about some extra money from the state that's helping his community and others still recovering from record flooding.
Governor Chet Culver is giving $12 million in grants to several North Iowa communities.
Clear Lake is getting more than two million, and Mason City will get a nearly four and a half million dollar boost.
The money is for flood recovery, and infrastructure projects that leaders say are long overdue.
"Both of these projects are items that we know we need to do,” said Mason City, City Administrator Brent Trout. “By being able to receive the state money or the federal money, it allows us to do a lot more, and it allows us to not raise rates."
Mason City, city leaders are also learning the governor is putting more than eight and a half million dollars toward buying out more than 70 flood damaged homes in the area.
Trout says he's not sure which home owners will get the money yet.
