Community Awareness Campaign Lighting Program Policy
All requests must be submitted a minimum of 14 days before the requested lighting date and no more than 365 days before the specified date. Additionally, requests must be made through the formal application. Lighting requests made via e-mail and/or social media campaigns will not be considered.
Lighting Criteria and Terms of Application:
• Approved application requests will be limited to a maximum period of up to one day. • Lighting requests will be granted on a first-come, first-serve basis. • The Historic Civic Center will be lit a maximum of 15 days per month. • Applications will only be considered if they are submitted by authorized personnel of the non-profit organization submitting the request.
• There is no automatic annual agreement renewal, and past Lighting participants will be required to apply each year to be considered.
• The applicant/contact on the originally submitted application will receive a written notification stating application approval or denial, sent via e-mail within ten business days of the application being received.
• The City of Corona is not obligated to provide specific feedback to any individual or organization regarding its application’s status, merit, and approval or denial. • Approved lighting campaigns may be rescheduled due to priority requests of the City of Corona.
• Blackout dates- Dates from the end of November through the second week in January will be reserved for the City of Corona Seasonal lighting. • The City of Corona will maintain traditional lighting for the following dates: Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, Veterans Day, 4
th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, September
11th, Halloween, and Thanksgiving Day.
• Only one request application per organization will be accepted within a 12-month period.
The application will be considered if submitted from a non-profit organization and the request falls within one of the following categories:
• Extraordinary events/occurrences of City, State, National or International significance • Non-profit Awareness Initiatives-application must come from a non-profit organization authorized personnel.
• City of Corona initiatives and selected holidays
• The observance of a passing City of Corona employee:
o Active Duty Passing- annually on passing anniversary. o Not in line of Duty Current Employee Passing- one time in memory of employee passing.
Applications will not be approved for commercial use, promotion of an event, or personal celebrations.