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The new public safety building in Quincy is expected to last 100 years, but it is two statues being sculpted for the front that are generating controversy.

The Quincy City Council meeting was packed Monday night with people both opposed and in support of the public art project planned for outside the new public safety building.

By SCOTT JACKSON Quincy City Council President Ian Cain said he plans to engage in further discussions with his fellow councillors and the administration of Mayor Thomas Koch regarding plans to include statues of Saint Michael and Saint Florian at the city’s new public safety headquarters.