FLORENCE, Ala. — At the Florence City Council meeting this evening, it was announced that the city has taken steps to ask for a waiver from the Committee on Alabama Monument Protection that would allow it to move Florence's Confederate monument
WATCH: Discussion of monument begins at about 33:00.
Other Alabama cities and counties have applied for waivers as well and have been rejected. Mayor Randall Woodfin of Birmingham ordered a monument to be removed from his city. The city was fined $25,000.
Mobile also moved a monument and was fined $25,000.
