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During a conversation on the city's public works budget, 4th Ward Councilman Neil Derry quipped that he'd like to support public art by supporting a proposed monument to the current Assessor.

"I'll be one of the first to donate $10,000 for the Bill Postmus statue," Derry joked.

The statue proposal comes from none other than Sun columnist John Weeks, who wrote in his latest column that a statue of Postmus outside of the county headquarters on Arrowhead Avenue could remind the county's voters to not vote for future Postmus-like candidates.

"It's a lesson we've been slow to learn, here in San Bernardino County, but maybe Bill Postmus can be the one who finally turns the trick for us," Weeks wrote.

Our columnist's reaction to Derry's remark?

"The pigeons are waiting," Weeks said.

Here's a link to Weeks' full column:

Postmus, readers will recall, has been dogged of late by allegations that he's struggling with methamphetamine addiction. Second District Supervisor Paul Biane, in an article written by Sun reporter Lauren McSherry, confirmed that Postmus has gone to rehab at least once.