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He led the city to rehabilitate the historic African-American Daughters of Zion cemetery with a special allocation of $80,000 from Council's Strategic Fund. [41] He worked with the city council to create a Blue Ribbon Commission on Race, Memorials, and Public Spaces to address controversies over Confederate statues in Charlottesville. [42]
Since 1922, however, the popular electorate has chosen a number of individuals to serve on city council - initially three, then five from 1928 to the present. From 1922 through 2006 those elections took place in May or June each even-numbered year. Beginning in 2007, council elections moved to November of odd-numbered years. [1]
On June 5, 2017, the City Council, led by Mayor Michael Signer, voted unanimously to change the park's name to Emancipation Park. [ 2 ] The renaming of the park and the proposed removal of the Robert Edward Lee sculpture on the site by the Charlottesville City Council was the catalyst for 2017 Unite the Right rally and a focus of controversy ...
The council voted Monday night to bring down the bronze monuments of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson — and now has 30 days to decide what to do with them.
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Walker began her campaign in March 2017. [2] Her campaign gained traction after the Unite the Right rally in August 2017. [2] Walker publicly pressured the City Council and then-mayor Michael Signer to answer questions about why a permit had been issued for the rally, and why the City Council was not addressing issues raised by the event. [3]
The Charlottesville City Council supported the portal by adopting an official city open data policy which they got from the advisory group. [1] A priority in establishing the portal was the protection of privacy of Charlottesville residents. [1] The portal opened with 72 datasets. [2] Of these, 65 were map related. [2]