The membership roster and duties assigned to a committee to consider the fate of the Jaybird Monument, a large obelisk statue erected in Fort Bend County's post-Civil War Reconstruction era, were finalized at a special meeting of the Richmond City Commission on Tuesday, Sept. 8. Now considered by some county residents to be an embarrassment to the city's history, Mayor Evalyn Moore and the City Commission voted at the Aug. 28 meeting that a committee would be appointed to decide if the statue should be removed and destroyed, removed and relocated to a museum or other alternative site or kept in its current location with new signage to provide historical context. "Our City thrives on being a place where hate and racial prejudices will not be tolerated," Richmond City Manager Terri Vela said in an official statement on Aug. 24. "Our goal is to continue to preserve our history as an educational gateway while being sensitive to all the members of our community of today and tomorrow."