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It was a year ago today—the same day 40 years after his famous “I have a dream” speech”—that residents and tourists visited the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, despite the looming presence of a hurricane that ended up postponing the memorial’s official dedication.

And in the year since, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered that a controversial paraphrased quote on the side of the memorial be changed after complaints that it made the civil rights leader sound like an “arrogant twit,” according to Maya Angelou. But as the Washington Times report, the “drum major” quote likely won’t be changed until MLK Day next year:

Harry E. Johnson Sr., president of the foundation that oversaw the memorial’s creation, said changing the quote requires coordinating with the memorial’s master sculptor from China and a stone carver from Rhode Island to set a price and get the work completed. He said the parties involved in the discussions did not want to cut off public access to the memorial at its busiest time.

“I think the biggest deal was, ‘How do you get it done so you don’t affect it?’” Mr. Johnson said Monday. “It’s more or less a matter of getting all the players together and deciding how to do it, when to do it.”

Work could start as early as October, but the process of altering the quote—which involves grinding down the granite to the depth of the existing lettering and adding the new quote above that—could take until January.