County Must Apply to Get Rockville Confederate Statue Moved (MD)

By Aaron Kraut
Published: 2015.07.31 09:37

Two weeks after declaring that he would move the controversial statue of a Confederate soldier in Rockville, County Executive Ike Leggett has tasked a senior staff member with getting permission to relocate it.

Leggett called on assistant chief administrative officer Bonnie Kirkland to put together an application to go before the City of Rockville’s Historic District Commission, a five-member board that apparently must provide a “Certificate of Approval” in order to relocate the state.

Council President George Leventhal mentioned the application and other potential next steps in a memo to colleagues sent Thursday ...

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