Submitting a Gilbert Water Tower Lighting Application

If you are interested in lighting the Gilbert Water Tower a specific color to recognize a community-impacting initiative or create community awareness, please review the lighting criteria and application below. 

All requests must be submitted a minimum of 14 days prior to the requested lighting date and 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 up to a one day maximum time period.
• Lighting requests will be granted on a first come first serve basis.
• The Gilbert Water Tower will be lit a maximum of 15 days per month.
• Applications will only be considered if they are submitted by an authorized personnel of the non-profit organization submitting the request.
• There is no automatic annual agreement renewal, and past lighting participants will be required apply each year to be considered.
• The applicant/contact on the originally submitted application will receive notification, stating application approval or denial, sent via e-mail within 10 business days of the application being received.
• The Town of Gilbert is under no obligation to provide specific feedback to any individual or organization regarding the status, merit and/or denial of its application.
• Approved lightings may be re-scheduled due to priority requests of the Town of Gilbert.
• In the event of an unforeseen technological issue, we will make every effort to reschedule a lighting as close to the original requested date as possible.
• Blackout dates- Dates from the end of November through the second week in January will be reserved for the Town of Gilbert Seasonal Lighting Program.
• The Town of Gilbert will maintain traditional lightings for the following dates February 14th, March 17th, July 4th, Memorial Day, Labor Day, September 11th, October 31st, November 11th and Thanksgiving
• Only one request application per organization will be accepted within a 12-month period.

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 Town, State, National or International significance 
• Nonprofit Awareness Initiatives-application must come from non-profit organization authorized personnel.
• Town of Gilbert initiatives and selected holidays
• The observance of a passing Town of Gilbert employee:
  • Active Duty Passing- annually on passing anniversary.
  • 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.

We are now accepting applications for 2026!