City of Richmond:
“The Richmond City Council voted unanimously Monday night to
signal its commitment to putting up $5 million in local funding to commemorate
slave-history sites in Shockoe Bottom regardless of whether a baseball stadium
is built nearby. Mayor Dwight C. Jones also introduced a modified version of
the resolution seeking support for his larger redevelopment plan for the
Bottom. The language in the new resolution, which was introduced in time for
consideration at the council’s Feb. 24 meeting, seeks council support for ‘further
negotiations’ in connection with the plan rather than asking approval for the
project itself.
The expedited resolution on the funding for slavery
projects, co-patroned by all nine council members, was intended to indicate the
city’s willingness to meet the conditions for $11 million in proposed state
funding for the projects. That funding, proposed by then-Gov. Bob McDonnell, is
currently under consideration by the General Assembly.”
~Writes Graham Moomaw of the Richmond Times-Dispatch
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