Council member Nick Bankston said the city needs more time for a 'thoughtful discussion' of a sensitive topic.
The long-debated fate of the controversial statue of city namesake Christopher Columbus briefly rekindled Monday evening before going dark again., the Columbus City Council delivered a series of ordinances bolstering protections and access to abortion.
The Council indefinitely tabled a request for $253,000 contract between the city and Designing Local Ltd, which specializes in creating policies and plans for placing public art and cultural facilities. The work would be for"facilitating community education and engagement and developing contextual materials that would accompany" the"potential reinstallation of the statue in a new public location," the ordinance said.
Columbus Economic Development Director Michael Stevens said the administration has been engaged"thoughtfully and thoroughly" for two years on the fate of the statue, and that he looked forward to working with Council on the topic. "The committee sees an opportunity to re-cast the statue, not as a symbol of community beliefs, but as an artifact of our city’s history," Fening said."They see an opportunity to return the statue to the community in a new site, surrounded by new contextual information that can create a place of reflection, education and community healing.
Because the new mandates were not inserted into city code, but rather declared a policy, it was unclear what repercussions, if any, would happen to those who decline to follow the guidelines.
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