In the context of this artwork, explain the Vance Monument Task Force of the Removal.
In June 2020, Asheville's city council voted unanimously adopted a joint resolution giving the United Daughters of the Confederacy ninety days to remove their additions, and appointing a twelve-member task force to determine if the monument should be removed, re-purposed, or retained with another name on it. The Buncombe County board of commissioners also approved the joint-resolution, with a vote of 4 to 3. The board received 549 messages in favor of removing the Vance Monument and nineteen calls in favor of retaining it. Buncombe County chairman Brownie Newman said he did not believe "that monument which romanticizes the Confederacy belongs on city or county-owned land." City Council member Keith Young, who is African American, said he believed that those who erected the monument were saying to black people, "We still have power. We still have control. And this is your place in our society."The city council appointed its six members and two alternates to the task force on July 28. 2020. The county did the same. The task force voted to recommend the removal of the Vance Monument on November 19, 2020. On December 8, 2020, the city council voted six to one to accept the recommendation, with a final decision on the removal pending future information on costs. The dissenting vote was cast by Sandra Kilgore, an African American, who said removing it would destroy an artistic monument and strain race relations. On March 23, 2021, the city council voted six to one to remove the monument for $114,150 (equivlane to $123,276 in 2023) awarded to an Asheville contractor. Additional funds were offered to conduct visioning for the site.
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