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Moorhead EDA highlights flood-mitigation bonding request and border-zone tax changes in 2026 legislative priorities
Summary
Lisa Bodie told the Moorhead Economic Development Authority the city's top capital ask is $18.5 million to retrofit seven Red River lift stations to FEMA and USACE standards; the packet also urges enterprise-zone changes and flags wastewater, passenger rail and sustainable aviation fuel policy items.
Lisa Bodie, the city’s government-affairs staffer, presented the Economic Development Authority’s 2026 legislative priorities and framed flood mitigation as Moorhead’s top capital ask. "We need $18,500,000 to retrofit and improve seven lift stations along the Red River to FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers standards," Bodie said, adding that certification of those improvements would help some properties qualify for lower flood-insurance rates.
Bodie told members the diversion authority recently freed up federal money that could match state bonding and substantially reduce Moorhead’s share of a…
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