Placement of Statues Next on Lexington KY Agenda

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By STU JOHNSON • 14 HOURS AGO

Negotiations continue between local government and Lexington cemetery to finalize the relocation of two statues representing Confederate Civil War figures ...

The bronze likenesses of John Breckinridge and John Hunt Morgan are being stored at an undisclosed location. They were hoisted off their bases Tuesday night.

Negotiations between Lexington government and the cemetery have been ongoing for a few months ...

"I would expect it to be sooner rather than later. We don’t want to keep these statues in storage," said <Vice Mayor Steve Kay>. "We want them to be in an appropriate place" ...

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1. Mayor talks about surprise removal of Lexington's statues

... In early August, Mayor Gray proposed relocating the statues ... A few weeks later, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council unanimously approved the request. At the time, the city believed it needed the approval of the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission to move the statues. City leaders asked for an opinion from the state Attorney General. Andy Beshear found an application giving authority of the statues to the KMHC in 2003 was not valid because the mayor at the time did not have approval from the Urban County Council to sign it. The city received that information early on Tuesday and quickly began the process of moving the statues.

"The statues are being moved in a respectful way to an appropriate and final resting place and that is the Lexington cemetery," said Mayor Jim Gray at an event on Friday ...

http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Mayor-Jim-on-statue-relocation--451876723.html