City of Coffeyville commissioners and staff will be heading to the Nation's Capital to discuss housing and the levee. City Manager Mark Hall says this has been a two year project.

The commissioners who will be making the trip include Bob York, Debra Maples and Jason Swindell and the city staff include Hall, Charla Brown and Thomas Osborn. Hall says this will not be their only trip to Washington DC.

Hall says Coffeyville has a very high if not the highest, poverty rate in the state. He says there were about 70 businesses in the area that flooded in 2007 but only 35 of them returned.