This past week the final state “Vision Iowa” grant money was awarded to a tourism project in Storm Lake. A total of 225-million dollars in Vision Iowa money was awarded to 13 projects throughout the state since the program’s creation in 1999. While some lawmakers and the governor have sought in the past to increase the money in the Vision Iowa account over the past few years, Governor Tom Vilsack now says he’s focusing on a different spending priority.Vilsack says his “first mission” in the upcoming legislative session will be getting full, adequate and permanent funding for the Iowa Values Fund. That’s the new state economic development account that hands out money to new and expanding businesses in Iowa. It was nullified this past summer, though, by an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that knocked down a wide-ranging law that included tax cuts and regulatory reform, too. Vilsack says the state can’t afford to let the Values Fund die. Vilsack says the Values Fund — when it was operating and handing out millions to businesses — created enthusiasm for the state in “economic development circles.”