Two days after jazz icon Wynton Marsalis called for New Orleans to remove its monument honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee, the New Orleans City Council voted in favor of an ordinance that will do just that.

The council also voted to bring down the statues of Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard, the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and a monument to an 1874 anti-Reconstruction insurrection known as the Battle of Liberty Place. The 6-1 vote took place earlier this afternoon, with Councilwoman Stacy Head casting the only nay vote.

Of course, Marsalis’ op-ed was hardly the spark that first shed light on the issue. The city had been debating the removal of the Confederate monuments since this past summer, when Mayor Mitch Landrieu suggested the move following the racially-motivated murder of nine people at Charleston, SC’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Additionally, thousands of people signed a petition calling for the Lee statue to be removed and replaced with a monument to Allen Toussaint after the legendary New Orleans songwriter, producer and performer passed away in November.

NOLA.com reports that the today’s vote took place after hours of heated public comments and debates among the various council members. During the debate, Councilman James Gray called the statues “homages to murderers and rapists,” and Head proposed a compromise that would have removed the Liberty Place and Davis monuments, while keeping the monuments to Lee and Beauregard intact.

There is currently no word on when the monuments will be taken down or what will replace them. However, according to NOLA.com, the ordinance approved by the council referred to Lee Circle by its original name, Tivoli Circle.