The Keokuk City Council will help fund the Southeast Iowa Regional Economic and Port Authority (SIREPA).
Keokuk, Fort Madison and Lee County are the original members of the authority, which is Iowa’s first and only port authority.
The Lee County Economic Development Group has been providing operational and administrative services for SIREPA, but the organization now wants to hire the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission.
The authority does not have a regular income stream at this point, so it needs help to pay for such services.
