Lighting Forbes' historic Town Hall with colour of a night has become a beautiful way to honour members of our community or shine a light on a cause.
As requests increase, the council is putting some guidelines around how and when they'll do it and staff presented a draft policy to councillors at their August meeting.
"Council receives multiple enquiries annually to light up the Town Hall in various colours for both community-led initiatives/memorials and national awareness either initiated by request to Council by the organisations themselves or via community requests," manager community and tourism Nina Hooper said in the report.
"The Forbes Town Hall is an iconic building in the Central West of NSW, widely recognised and frequently photographed and is the jewel in the crown of Forbes’ historic CBD precinct."
The lights themselves are activated by staff via remote control after sunset, when the street lights come on.
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Over just two months the Town Hall was lit up for the passing of the Pope; the 12-month anniversary of the passing of Molly Ticehurst; Huntington's Disease; domestic and family violence remembrance day; and road safety week.
Lighting Town Hall will be permitted for significant local, state or national events or awareness campaigns under the policy.
Lighting for memorials and individual acknowledgment may be considered on a case by case basis.
Staff recommended routine and regular requests - significant local, state or national events or awareness campaigns - come to the Manager Community and Tourism, whilst with approval for memorials and individual acknowledgment would be at the discretion of the General Manger in consultation with the Mayor if required.
The council will develop a list of priority light-ups and publish them on their website, there will be an application form to fill out and submit for additional causes.
Under the policy, campaigns must not promote political parties, campaigns or messaging; or project or promote content reasonably considered offensive, discriminatory or otherwise inappropriate.
