There could be major updates from the Chatham County Commissioner meeting Monday night on the future of the Confederate statute outside downtown Pittsboro’s Historic Courthouse.

County Commissioners are scheduled to deliver updates at the end of their session on their discussions with the statue’s owners, the Winnie Davis chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Chatham County commissioners voted in June to hold discussions with the UDC about “re-imagining” the statue.

But those discussions seemed to have stalled. The UDC chapter and its President Barbara Pugh released a statement earlier this month saying the statue “should not be illegally moved or altered” and said it would be “inappropriate to re-imagine the statue in any way.”

In mid-April, Chatham commissioners voted 4 to 1 to ask county attorney Richard Rose to explore the laws surrounding the monument and the possible options for the Chatham commissioners moving forward.

Members of Chatham for All, a group that favors taking down the statue, have said during public input sessions that they believe officials do have the ability to rescind the county’s 1907 agreement with the statue’s owners and remove it from public land outside the courthouse.

The commissioners meeting is at 6 p.m. Monday at the Historic Courthouse in Pittsboro.

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