The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners remained divided along partisan lines. Chair Brownie Newman and his three Democratic colleagues voted for the removal of Confederate monuments at Pack Square Park and the county courthouse, as well as establishing a task force on the Vance Monument, while Republicans Joe Belcher, Anthony Penland and Robert Pressley voted against those moves.
![Vance Monument on June 19, 2020](https://mountainx.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BEAT2_1_Vance-330x440.jpg)