Mandating masks, opening restaurants, closing schools, and other coronavirus responses have filled the agendas at town councils around the country, but those aren’t the only extraordinary topics that are of concern in city hall. Black Lives Matter is also on the agenda.

Confederate statues are coming down, or staying up, all over the country, and streets and parks are being renamed. The town council of Lexington, Virginia, voted in July to rename Stonewall Jackson Cemetery. By late August, though, they still hadn’t decided what to rename it.