Charlottesville City Council appropriates $1 million for removal of Confederate statues [View all]
Charlottesville is one step closer to removing its Confederate statues.
The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday during a special meeting to appropriate $1 million for removal, storage and/or covering of the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, as well as one of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and Shoshone interpreter Sacagawea.
The $1 million will come from the city’s Capital Improvement Program Contingency Fund.
“This is just putting funding in place so that we can either remove, store or cover any or all of the three statues … Any type of permanent dispossession, transfer of ownership or otherwise, would have to come back to you as a council for approval and a vote,” said City Manager Chip Boyles.
The council has not yet decided if the statues will be demolished or relocated.
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