(Iowa City, IA) -- Iowa State Auditor Rob Sand is voting against using taxpayer dollars to pay half of a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Iowa Athletic Department unless Athletic Director Gary Barta is no longer employed.
Sand says the settlement would cost $2-million in taxpayer funds.
The lawsuit was filed by 12 Black Hawkeye football players in 2020 and is the fourth discrimination lawsuit against the department in the last nine years.