Over a month after Joe Ganim abruptly had the statue of Christopher Columbus removed from Seaside Park and stored away, the city’s parks board in a similarly sudden move voted he put it back on its pedestal.

“They have 45 days to do that,” Banjed Labrador, the board’s president, said in an interview following Tuesday night’s regularly scheduled teleconference and unanimous vote. Labrador hoped that the decision would bring both sides of the debate over the monument’s future together in a more deliberative and public effort to decide whether it stays for good or goes.