re: Landrieu says there will be a 30 day delay in removing PGT Beauregard Monument

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According to a letter from New Orleans City Attorney Rebecca H. Dietz, The New Orleans City Park Improvement Association has asserted legal rights in the property which the monument is situated.

The letter was sent to Eyewitness News by Richard Marksbury, who recently sought a restraining order that would block the removal based on related ownership claims. A Civil Court judge denied that request.

Messages left Monday afternoon with City Hall and City Park were not immediately returned.

The letter from the city attorney, dated May 12, goes on to say that the city and City Park will “engage in good-faith negotiations to attempt to resolve their competing claims” over who owns the monument for a period of 30 days.

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The dispute over who owns the property, and the monument placed on it, came to light when Marksbury, a member of the Monumental Task Committee, filed a lawsuit in Orleans Parish Civil District Court to prevent the City from removing the Beauregard Monument on the grounds that City Park actually owns that property, not the City of New Orleans.

The lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Kern Reese on May 10.

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