Jacksonville FL Council president wants Confederate monuments off city property
By News4Jax.com Staff
Posted: 1:50 PM, August 14, 2017
Updated: 2:03 PM, August 14, 2017
... The president of Jacksonville City Council on Monday asked several city departments conduct an inventory of all Confederate monuments, memorials and markers on public property with the intention of asking that they be removed.
"It is important to know the full landscape of such a task," President Anna Brosche said in a statement. "Upon completion of the inventory, I intend to propose legislation to move Confederate monuments, memorials, and markers from public property to museums and educational institutions where they can be respectfully preserved and historically contextualized."
Brosche said this is in response to the "horrific and unacceptable incidents" that occurred in Charlottesville ...
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/city-council-president-wants-confederate-monuments-off-public-property