JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayor Donna Deegan is looking at "potential options" to remove a confederate monument in Springfield Park.
The Mayor's Office told First Coast News the mayor has also engaged city council on the matter.
This comes days after a new bill was filed that would punish elected leaders who take down historical monuments and memorials in Florida.
Deegan called the bill a "slap in the face to our Black community."
HB 395 would give the Governor authority to remove officials from office if they remove monuments and memorials.
State representative, Dean Black, filed the bill and said the goal is to protect all monuments and their history.
"When we sanitize the state of all markers to our history 100 years from now people will say well the civil war that never happened slavery that's just a myth, a legend," Black said.
Black's critics believe he's targeting those aimed at taking down confederate monuments.
Three years ago, then-Mayor Lenny Curry set money aside to remove confederate monuments.
So far, only one has been taken down, an obelisk in James Weldon Johnson Park.
The Woman of the Southland Statue in Springfield Park is still standing.
"I think that Dean Black is adding fuel to the fire of racism in Florida as long as they continue to defend them and fight to keep them up, we're going to see more and more attacks in our community like the one that occurred at the Dollar General," Wells Todd of Take Em Down Jax, said.
Take Em Down Jax is hosting a rally to speak against representative Black's bill.
The rally is Tuesday at 4 p.m. outside City Hall.