Confederate monuments study committee meets today
By From staff reports
Published in News on March 21, 2018 5:50 AM
RALEIGH -- The North Carolina Historical Commission Confederate Monuments Study Committee will hold a public meeting from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. today.
The meeting is for accepting public comment on a petition to relocate three Confederate monuments from the state Capitol grounds in Raleigh to the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site near Four Oaks.
It will be held in the first-floor auditorium of the Archives and History/State Library Building, 109 E. Jones St., Raleigh.
Speaker registration will begin at 12:30 p.m.
The study committee is currently accepting public comment through an online portal at https://www. ncdcr.gov/comment-relocation-monuments.
The online portal will remain available until the study committee votes to close it. All comments, whether made online or in person, will be considered by the committee.
The meeting will be available to view via Livestream at https://www.youtube. com/ncculture.
If possible, speakers are asked to provide a written copy of their oral comments.
Committee members may attend the public hearing in person or electronically.
The committee chairman may extend the meeting for an additional one hour until 4:30 p.m. if he determines additional time is needed.
Speakers must sign in using their name and hometown.
Speakers shall be allowed to speak for one minute, and a red warning card shall be held up after 30 seconds has passed.
The hearing is limited to comments about monuments on the Capitol Square in Raleigh and not about monuments in other locations including the Silent Sam monument in Chapel Hill.
No applause or other noises or clapping shall be allowed or tolerated before, during or after any speaker. Individuals in attendance who violate this rule will first be warned and then removed from the audience if a second violation occurs.
The public will be notified of these rules, both on the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources and N.C. Historical Commission website, and by meeting attendees being given a copy of the rules.
Members of the public may choose to use the online portal to comment on the petition to relocate three Confederate monuments from the State Capitol grounds in Raleigh to the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Four Oaks.
Comments submitted online are not limited in length and will be given the same consideration as comments made in person.
For more information about the North Carolina Historical Commission, visit www.ncdcr.gov/nchc.