“They’re hiding behind the commission, but in May they’re going to have to deal with it, because you better believe in May I’m going to write another paper,” Jones said.

Stoney formed the commission in July to study how the city could “add context” to the monuments. He later expanded its charge to include a consideration of removal or relocation of the statues of Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson, President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and Confederate naval commander Matthew Fontaine Maury.

The commission will make its final recommendations to Stoney in May after a series of small discussion sessions it plans to hold between January and April with community groups that request a meeting with commission members. Its co-chairs, Christy Coleman and Gregg Kimball, each said Tuesday that they felt the council vote would not affect the commission’s work.

Jim Nolan, a spokesman for the mayor’s office, said in an email that it would be premature to say whether Stoney will support a second council-led effort to ask the state for authority to remove the monuments because the commission has not yet spoken.