FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA Iowa will return $21 million in pandemic relief funds misspent on computer system [The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa] Dec. 14—Gov. Kim Reynolds said Monday she will return to Iowa’sCoronavirus Relief Fund the $21 million regulators said she misspent on a new computer system. The announcement acknowledges a defeat for Reynolds, who had argued in October that a $57 million contract with cloud-computing company Workday was “necessary” to address the pandemic — even though the contract was signed months before COVID-19 hit Iowa in March. “Following multiple conversations with the Treasury Department last spring, we believed we had assurances that the upgrade to Workday qualified as an allowable expense,” a news release from the Governor’s Office said. “We would not have moved forward without those assurances.”