File #: 2019-3283    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Preliminary Item
File created: 1/30/2019 In control: Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 2/26/2019 Final action:
Title: Commission District(s): All Districts A Resolution to Adopt a Contextualization Statement for the Confederate Monument
Attachments: 1. 2019 03.12 Item 2019-3283, 2. Resolution on Contextualization, 3. Contextualization Statement 2019-1-15, 4. 2017 10.24 Resolution to Remove or Relocate the Confederate Monument on the Decatur Square

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Public Hearing:  YES      NO                                                   Department: Board of Commissioners                                     

 

SUBJECT:

Title

Commission District(s): All Districts

A Resolution to Adopt a Contextualization Statement for the Confederate Monument

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Information Contact: Commissioners Gannon and Rader

Phone Number: 404 371 6353

 

PURPOSE:

The Board of Commissioners has previously adopted a resolution to move the Confederate monument from the Courthouse Square and a resolution authorizing contextualization. While it remains the adopted policy to move the Confederate monument, the County has been unable to find a suitable location. In the interim of relocating the monument, the attached resolution authorizes a contextualization statement of the monument.  

 

NEED/IMPACT:

To authorize the attached narrative statement and to allocate the necessary funding. 

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

$3,000.

 

RECOMMENDATION:

Recommended Action

To approve the resolution and authorize the chief executive officer to execute all necessary documents....