City delays award of Confederate monument removal contract, again (LA)
By Robert McClendon, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on April 22, 2016 at 7:32 AM
updated April 22, 2016 at 10:11 AM
Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration has again pushed back the deadline .. to bid on a job to remove .. Confederate monuments.
Bids were .. to be opened Friday (April 22) at 11 a.m., but the city .. pushed the date back to May 23. It's the second time the city has delayed the bid opening ...
C. Hayne Rainey, the mayor's spokesman, said .. the extension of the deadline means the project must re-advertised. There would be no reason to open the bids now, as the U.S. Circuit 5th Court of Appeals has ordered .. monuments .. left in place while it hears a challenge .. seeking to block the removals ...
... keeping .. bids sealed while the court case unfolds serves to protect firms from .. backlash .. from pro-monument activists ...
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