Post by Logan on Apr 12, 2016 5:20:02 GMT -6
DES MOINES | An Iowa lawmaker is challenging an agency's assessment that its longtime preservation work on hundreds of historic battle flags is complete, the latest spat between Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and historians over the direction of preservation in the state.
Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, said the department is misinterpreting the intended scope of a project involving more than 300 battle flags stored at the state historical museum in downtown Des Moines. He plans to propose language in a budget bill that would require the department to keep restoring the flags.
Department officials told Dotzler that work on the flags — which include flags from the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I, among others — is finished and that the agency no longer needs the roughly $94,000 a year it had recently received from the Legislature to restore them.
"I absolutely do not believe what they're saying," said Dotzler, who is chairman of the subcommittee that approves funding for the agency. "They're 100 percent wrong."
Read more: siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/lawmaker-challenges-iowa-agency-s-work-on-battle-flags/article_4c6d117b-1a34-5e34-8826-04110ee45333.html
Sen. Bill Dotzler, D-Waterloo, said the department is misinterpreting the intended scope of a project involving more than 300 battle flags stored at the state historical museum in downtown Des Moines. He plans to propose language in a budget bill that would require the department to keep restoring the flags.
Department officials told Dotzler that work on the flags — which include flags from the Civil War, Spanish American War, and World War I, among others — is finished and that the agency no longer needs the roughly $94,000 a year it had recently received from the Legislature to restore them.
"I absolutely do not believe what they're saying," said Dotzler, who is chairman of the subcommittee that approves funding for the agency. "They're 100 percent wrong."
Read more: siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/lawmaker-challenges-iowa-agency-s-work-on-battle-flags/article_4c6d117b-1a34-5e34-8826-04110ee45333.html