East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee to meet on March 1

By Mike Porter

The East Marshall Street Well Planning Committee will hold its next meeting at Virginia Commonwealth University.

The planning committee will meet on Saturday, March 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Alumni Association Board Room in the University Student Commons, 907 Floyd Ave. The meeting is open to the public.

The planning committee, consisting of community and university members, was established last fall to select an appropriate decision-making body to help determine what happens to human remains found in a 19th century well uncovered during the 1994 construction of the Hermes A. Kontos Medical Sciences Building on VCU’s medical campus.

There will be an opportunity for members of the public to make comments at the end of the planning committee meeting but time may be limited. Speakers will be asked to keep comments to two minutes. Those interested in speaking at the meeting should contact Stephen Davenport at davenportse3@vcu.edu.